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Netflix cancels Evangelion Italian dub due to fans backlash (reddit.com)
3 points by Gabriele333 2552 days ago
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Some background: Netflix contacted the one that adapted the first version back in the 90s and the man has quite the reputation to create some insane (Really Bad) dialogues while translating. While he had been long excusing the stale quality with the limited time given to complete the workload, he is the responsible of the Italian adaptation of the Studio Ghibli's movies and he has received quite the critics for the use of certain terms that are either unused in common instances or even outright obscene to the people. His name is Gualtiero Cannarsi, by the way.
That controversial new English subs seemed much more accurate to me than the old baseline, though I can’t speak for Italian dub.

After all it’s about a language that up until the last century “being rather unhateful” meant a girl’s stuck to a guy like a magnet, so...

Probably need the backstory to understand what this is all about.