BUG OFF . . . BUG OFF . . .

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curlew-2 — 14 years ago(January 11, 2012 09:38 AM)

Hmmmm . . . well, she was pretty cheesed off.
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RainsOnUs — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 11:33 AM)

If my memory is correct, she says 'Baka' in the original Japanese version, meaning 'stupid'.

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curlew-2 — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 02:09 PM)

It is, or "fool" I also believe.
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merelientje — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 05:21 AM)

I can confirm the actual thing: It reads Baka which is japanese for idiot or fool, but some might also say that bug off is a childfriendly translation and not entirely misplaced in this setting.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketcup."

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curlew-2 — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 08:20 AM)

And one can imagine Risa perhaps toning her vocabulary back for the sake of Koichi. Thanks for sending the comment.
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lyris1-1 — 13 years ago(June 13, 2012 06:22 AM)

I'm guessing the reason they've translated it as BUG OFF is because they both start with "B". You'll recall the scene of her lying upside down with her head on the floor and the lip movements are clear. Substituting it for another B is good dubbing.

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curlew-2 — 13 years ago(June 13, 2012 07:43 AM)

Sharp eyes! PONYO, HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO are about the only anime films I'll watch in their dubbed forms (usually because whoever does the dubbing for Studio Ghibli seems to take special care in their work . . . unlike so many others).
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themakbot — 13 years ago(August 11, 2012 10:11 PM)

You can thank Pixar's John Lasseter for Disney's awesome and respectful English dubbing if Ghibli's movies

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Yooka333 — 9 years ago(November 06, 2016 04:40 PM)

The actual sentences meant "no sodomy next week, congratulations". I found it hilarious that they put such a thing in a children movie.