So, if it's this hard for you to post something from an iPhone screen, why did you even bother to "bash" me?
I don't have to prove you anything, and I just joined this forum for... almost 2 days? But lemme tell you something, just because I don't like to leave misunderstood things: I studied 日本語 for almost 1 year in 2008 with a 先生 who have Japanese Teaching Major in one of the best universities from my country. And, waaaaay before that, I already had a good japanese vocabulary from watching anime and, above all, listen to J-Rock songs and reading detailed songs translations with a LOT of notes.
After my one year of course (basically 日本語 level 1 and 2, studying with the well know みんなの日本語), I've never lost my interest in Japanese culture and language, and my vocabulary never stopped to grow in those years.
Maybe you think I'm some kind of "otaku" weeaboo herp-derp who faps to moeshit, but in reality, I hate this kind of stuff and I hardly watch anime, to tell you the truth. My main interest is in music, not only "J-Rock" bands (which I hardly listen to this day, as well), but rock in general. Still, there will be always a tiny, small quantity, of japanese bands that I will probably love til I die, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
So, back to the matter, it's quite obvious that I know how the japanese language works, what is copulas and particles, the basic of kanjis, radicals and order of strokes, in which for me, who didn't actually learned almost none in levels 1 and 2, at least I know how to search and study them.
When I said "this series have kind of repetitive dialogues and expressions, once you "master it", it's not that hard to reproduce/emulate it" is because this is true. There is a lot of dialogues that are repeated over and over by different characters along the episodes, making a pattern to translate some lines, words and expressions. But even to do this, you have to know at least a a bit of Japanese! I'm not fluent in 日本語, but I'm really, really away from being an absolute beginner.
Do you know how many hours I've spend searching and studing 日本語 related topics to make a good QC? No, you don't. Did you ever tried to do something like this for anything you like? It doesn't need to be necessary anime (which I guess you dislike), neither something related to a language. I mean doing something with passion for the things that have a meaning for you.
Judging by your flag, I don't know if you are a japanese native, or if you just live in Japan, but this is the kind of attitude that gives a community a bad name. When I made my account, I was happy to read this in the e-mail which I received from here: The premise of JREF is that we can, working together, build an online community that will help all of us.
At least, another people here before you proved me those things above. There is a huge difference between constructive criticism and bashing someone, or wrongly judging someone you don't even know. If you don't like anime, I'm ok with that. Everyone has different tastes and motivations. But I don't think it's right to be mean and disrespectful to someone just because you didn't empathize with a person.
Probably, at this point, you are tired of reading all of this in your shiny iPhone screen. But, to tell the last, just to prove how much I have a deep respect to 日本語, as I told before, half of the Saint Seiya series are translated. If things are like this, why should I even bother to revise from the episode 1? Because, even for my level of understanding in 日本語, I could notice a lot of flaws the current translation.
Is it a "goofy cartoon"? For some it could be, but there is a LOT of people who, even with all flaws that this series have, love Saint Seiya from the bottom of their hearts. (Plus, if you really live in Japan, maybe you heard something about the 車田 正美 40th career anniversary, and the new 聖闘士星矢 movie which is premiering... tomorrow? So yes, there is a lot of people who cares about this.)
I always try to be polite to everyone, unless someone is disrespectful to me. A doubt is a doubt, it doesn't matter if it's a trivial doubt, or a difficult one. Even the majored ones with higher degrees in anything could have basic doubts, mostly for being too ashamed to ask. The real problem is to keep a doubt forever, and even making mistakes because of this. Even worse when they're mistakes related to basic stuff.
Tl;dr: If you dislike or hate something, don't be mean to someone just because you don't share their tastes. You will save the precious minutes of your life. Why don't you just post in the threads you sympathize? If you cannot help, well...
Back to the subject of this thread, なのだ, to anyone who can gently lend me a hand... As I said, yes, I've searched for なのだ, and besides the "emphasis" thing that I know, and the jisho meaning, most of the sites explain it as something you use to "to express utter happiness, sadness, confusion, or just to be random", and to look "cute". But mostly I find meanings related to a "happy" context, and no concrete possibilities of translation.
Since I heard なのだ at the end of some serious sentences, about serious stuff, how could I express this in the most natural way in english? This isn't a case of mannerisms/quirks, where were talking about a character who always says なのだ in the end of the sentences. In those cases, mostly all subtitles always ignore なのだ and never translate it.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: And if some are questioning why I didn't finish my 日本語 studies yet, it is because I have another priorities in my life. This doesn't mean for any second that I lost my interest in Japanese language and Japanese culture. I will finish my the course one day, when I want it, and not to translate an anime. Something which would sounds dull and meaningless.
If I volunteered to the project which I said is because I think this is something that isn't beyond my knowledge, thus being it totally possible for me.
Plus, I'm obviously learning a LOT of things while revising 聖闘士星矢, so yes, you can both revise an anime AND study 日本語.
