大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＤＸ in rōmaji?

J44xm

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• 14 Dec 2004

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Greetings, all. (First post!) I have a question about the title of a Nintendo GameCube video game. In English, it's known as "Super Smash Bros. Melee." The original Japanese name is "大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＤＸ."

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server (my main kanji site) translates this as "Tairan Tou SMASH BROTHERS," but I've also seen it as "Dairantou ..." I believe. So I'm wondering what the best transliteration is here. Thanks!

 

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Stutz

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• 14 Dec 2004

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Well I'm not too good with kanji, but it looks like the correct title should be Dairantou. It doesn't make sense as "Tairan tou" since Tairan according to my dictionary is Rebellion and tou I can't seem to find alone. But Dairantou ends up coming out as great fray which fits the game in reality. Though I just completed my first semester of Japanese today so take my word with a grain of salt.

 

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NANGI

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• 14 Dec 2004

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Konnichiwa J44xm-san!
Yes, you and Stutz's "dairantou" is right!

NANGI

 

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Scrivener

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• 14 Dec 2004

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大: Big (dai)
乱: Chaotic (ran)
闘: Fight (tou)
スマッシュ: Smash (sumasshu)
ブラザーズ: Brothers (burazaazu)

A "rantou" is a "melee" in the sense of a brawl at a baseball game or something

 

GaijinPunch

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• 15 Dec 2004

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DX - a common abbreviation for Deluxe.

 

J44xm

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• 15 Dec 2004

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Thanks for the info, minna-san.