>>12624785I'm okay with changed names in the games because I know why they did it. It has to be marketable to the target audience, and it's much easier to market English-sounding names.
Since I have only played the English versions of the games, those English names are the only names I associate with the Pokemon. This is the case for a lot of people, which is why the English names are more common in regular discussion. It's because more people know them.
Who the fuck knows what a Zuruzukin is nowadays, even though the name sounds fucking rad? It's just easier to use the English names.
The thing about animes and other kinds of translated visual media is that subs exist that don't change the original names. So why bother going with the western-marketed version, which doesn't stay as true to the original, when you have a perfectly understandable original version. Because we're no longer children, we can watch things from foreign places and expect to see foreign culture in them, and not have to be fed with our own culture to make it more relatable.
