| It was Captain Harlock for the longest time. Dunno why someone decided to change everything Harlock to Herlock. Herlock just sounds wrong. LOL |
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What the actual fuck MAL. How do changes like these get accepted, but not ones that are legitimately proven and useful? |
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| This must be fixed. |
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| Seriously, what the actual f*ck! I wouldn't even watch a movie named Captain Herlock in the first place! |
| ったく、嫌な世の中だよ。 |
| What the???? Herlock? It sounds ridiculous, who approved this? It's literally Captain Harlock everywhere. Give an answer mods, why is it that it's different on mal than anywhere else? Look at the poster and tell me it's Herlock, it would be different for he old one because they weren't that good in english during that time. |
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| Came to report this same issue, too. The title at https://myanimelist.net/anime/17269/Captain_Herlock shows an image of the film poster, where this is spelled "Harlock." Please update this for accuracy. |
Please don't feed the trolls.   |
| Guess it's up to us to work to become noticed, then, if not to gain a foothold in a higher editing-rights space so as to make such corrections ourselves... a- |
| Please don't feed the trolls. |
It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing. It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut) @omy785 Sorry you took it for you. I was not trying to defend it, only giving the reason. And I know I didn't bring the text I had read nor did I explain myself decently but the kana don't prove anything against it. The problem is born from the gap between the way they transcript in alphabet based on what they think is the way westerners (aka american peoples for some, others in other cases) say those letters combination´s, the name was probably made the reversal way (letters -› kana), I-m not sure anymore. So, between Sorry again for not being clear enough, I really can't find the clear explanation again or else I would have scanned it (it's interesting). Anyway, no use of trying to argue, I sadly can't report the info in a decent way. -_- France had a hard time already giving up "Albator" so we stayed with Harlock. (and, like you said, it isn't false) PS: just look at the kana used for the english "her" or for the name "Hercules" @Alexioos95 Merci, je crois bien que c'était cette page que j'avais en tête! |
Rei_IIIOct 3, 2025 11:27 PM
DJackerick said: how many years has to pass to get the title right? examples: anidb imdb rottentomatoes it's only in the OVA the name is seen as "Herlock" anidb imdb rottentomatoes This. If we can't agree on which spelling is correct, let's at least start with being consistent in how the thing's been spelled historically (and, again, how it's spelled on the official poster). >:-j |
| Please don't feed the trolls. |
| It's still "Herlock" and counting |
| It's "SHerlock" now lol |
| Why'd it suddenly change to Captain SHerlock lmao |
Rei_III said: It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing. It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut) The transcription of HARLOCK is right there on the Japanese poster, making it obvious what the intended romanji version should be. MAL is literally the only site that referst to the franchise as "Herlock". |
You all need to watch Nami. |
abystoma2 said: Rei_III said: It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing. It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut) The transcription of HARLOCK is right there on the Japanese poster, making it obvious what the intended romanji version should be. MAL is literally the only site that referst to the franchise as "Herlock". Yeah I agree, it literally says Harlock on the poster and is written as ハーロック. The japanese wiki also has Harlock really bold. As others mentioned earlier, the name is only used in an older OVA. Not to forget that the official website is Harlock-movie and not Herlock-movie So not sure who changed it from Harlock to Herlock, but for the love of this database, please a mod change it to its right name |
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Rei_III said: Sorry again for not being clear enough, I really can't find the clear explanation again or else I would have scanned it (it's interesting). It's been years, but you meant that one, no ? xfade551 said: So, apparently the original anime TV series this movie was based on was popular in France (dubbed in French) and aired on broadcast TV there. Due to the oddities of French spelling, "Harlock" (as pronounced in English and how the characters pronounce it in the original Japanese voice acting) is spelled "Herlock" in French, but is not really pronounced any different. So, I suspect a French fan must have been the one to add the the MAL entry for the movie. Yeah, it was insanely popular; everyone above 30 years old knows about Albator (the French name of the series) there. But no, you are wrong, Herlock/Harlock was not used in the series at all, it was renamed as "Albator" because it was thought to be too close to Captain Haddock (Tintin) back then; Captain Harlock is only written in tiny on the covers of the 77 edition of the Manga, and is used to address the Captain only in the 2016 edition. Edit : I wasn't aware, but looking it up, there is 2 dubs for the 2002 Anime. One is using Albator, but the other uses Herlock, which seems to be the initial introduction of the real name in French (and even last ? As it's Harlock then). As you can see on most of the official covers, the official Japanese name is ハーロック, so it should be Harlock, but it's also officially written Herlock in romanji in the same covers... I've seen a lot of claims that it's Matsumoto himself who had choosen the Herlock spelling (something about some baby's crawling words ?), but there is no sources for it. Seems like it's a long lasting imprecision or maybe even error, that is not fixed, even officially. So MAL is right to use Herlock, but i think they also should follow the official inconsistency, and use Harlock when it's also written as is in romanji (like for this entry). |
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