Talk:Let's Duel Brothers

Wacky Syntax in Card Names
I would say keep the off-sounding names of stuff when it's a pretty clear translation. The katakana says "Let's Duel," the hiragana says, "Brothers," so it seems like an easy enough conclusion to reach Let's Duel Brothers, at least before considering what to do about punctuation for added clarity.

Japanese people often say "brothers" to signify unity of something--attitude, appearance, etc.--but Shobu and the other guy here are also literally brothers, so the spirit of the card name seems to be a unity of enthusiasm to duel by two blood brothers--each holds the attitude of "Let's Duel!," so considering they're both on the same wavelength, you can characterize them as Let's Duel Brothers because they both have a can-do attidude with regards to dueling. It isn't grammatically perfect, but "Go Duel Brothers" doesn't make complete grammatical sense either, so if you have to choose between two gramatically curious options, I'd vote for the literal translation which has that wonderful Japanese semi-English spirit to it that I'd say is a characteristic key to enjoying Duel Masters anyway, what with its overly dramatic naming conventions and hyper-inflated superfluity.

I would also reference something like THE FINAL cards, which also don't really make sense grammatically, but we go with them (and countless others) because that's just how they wrote the source material, it's easy enough to gather the intent of the name, and in the end, it sounds just fine.

Je2010 21:38, January 13, 2012 (UTC)