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1. The English titles mothy has given the series are intended to be alternate English titles, NOT translations, so they are not relevant to this discussion. We would not be changing articles to them in the first place. Portrait Glassred Drew is not an example of this (for the record, we use it because it makes it clear that Glassred is the one who drew the portrait, whereas a more literal translation would imply it simply belonged to her or that she was the subject).

2. I'm pretty sure that when we had this discussion in the past, we decided that Chronicles of Evillious was not intended to be the series title but just a description of the timeline, because that's the page it was on. So this is not the "official" translation of the series.

3. I would argue the series does not have an official title to begin with. If I recall correctly, it's commonly referred to by mothy as the "Evillious series". "Evillious Chronicles" is a fan name. As I recall, when we had this argument in the past, we reached the conclusion that since it was a fan name anyway (something even the Japanese fans use) there was no point in changing it. I could be misremembering though, I can't seem to find the discussion.

4. It would be prudent of you to make a different forum post for this discussion because it has nothing to do with Master of the Heavenly Yard. As such you are clogging it up with this needless arguing.

5. We do have a precendent for not following an official translation if we feel it fudges the meaning too much. "Fifth the Clown" was changed to "Fifth, Clown" for the sake of accuracy, but it was NOT changed to "The Fifth Clown" because that distinctly altered the meaning in a way we knew was wrong.

6. I guarantee mothy isn't thinking that hard about his English when he makes these "translations". His audience is Japanese, as Tobimisa has pointed out.