{"id":5057,"date":"2002-07-11T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-11T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/detail-on-initial-d-name-changes\/"},"modified":"2002-07-11T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-11T15:17:00","slug":"detail-on-initial-d-name-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/detail-on-initial-d-name-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Detail on Initial D Name Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase the odds of the Initial D animation being picked up for American television broadcast, TOKYOPOP has confirmed that they have edited the series and manga. With at least the manga translation, beginning with volume 2 the series uses original Westernized character names instead of accurate translations of the character&#8217;s Japanese names. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=2292\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a> has published a list of the name changes and posted a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/initiald\/petition.html\" target=\"_blank\">online fan petition<\/a> urging TOKYOPOP to either revert the Initial D translation back to an accurate, literal translation or release multiple versions for mainstream and &#8220;die-hard fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase the odds of the Initial D animation being picked up for American television broadcast, TOKYOPOP has confirmed that they have edited the series and manga. With at least the manga translation, beginning with volume 2 the series uses original Westernized character names instead of accurate translations of the character&#8217;s Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}