>>37573993Further supports my "localisation" thesis. He didn't "fail to recognize which lines are quotes from the actual episode." Since he went with "Ash" over "Satoshi," it looks like he intentionally went full localisation and used the official localisation, at least partially, as his reference. Not to mention there are multiple ways to translate Japanese to English sentences, due to an abundance of synonyms, so just because he didn't type word-for-word how some fansubber probably did, doesn't really mean much.
But, again, I think you're reading too much into it. I've written stuff that people did fan translations of, even though I could've translated them myself, and I never had a problem with them adding additional contextual lines to my dialogue, that I didn't *literally* put there, to make the sentence flow better in English, Spanish, or whatever. Nobody else I know who writes or draws really cares either way; we're usually just amused when people translate our work.
But enough of this autism, back to amour.
