Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042307/@comment-25926003-20150726203610

"Moonlit already implies nighttime" my butt, if the song literally has the kanji for "moonlit night" - not moonlit, moonlit night - in it, it HAS to stay "moonlit night". Dropping the "night" implies something other than the night is moonlit, when no, the title literally describes the night as moonlit the same way you could describe a night as dark and stormy in English. By that logic, you could take a favorite non-Evillious song of mine - "Wasurena Tsukiyo" by Sound Horizon, which has the exact same kanji for "tsukiyo" in its title as Okizari Tsukiyo Shou - and translate its title as "Don't forget the moonlit", even though it should be "Don't forget the moonlit night". It doesn't work like that because "moonlit" is an adjective but it is specifically written as referring to the night.

Drop the "night" and you completely ignore the kanji "yoru" in "tsukiyo" the same way we've been ignoring the "tale" up to this point. And then we end up back at square 1, only a bit different. I've explained this already, if you guys are going to argue about how accurate the title is then the "night" has to stay. It's written directly in the Japanese, dropping it is a bad idea.

And we've been dealing with long titles so it's not like it's anything new. It could be worse. I'd take a long title over the loss of a key word.

23.122.217.39 wrote: What about "A Tale of the Ending Moonlit Night"? It's not perfect and it doesn't quite match the other title, but I think it might be our best option. I see that and raise you "A Tale of an Ending on a Moonlit Night" to go with "A Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night". It's probably not perfect - see my extra added "an" - but it could work.