Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042307/@comment-6192846-20150725151658

Alexiel Lucifen wrote: length doesn't matter, "Tale of Moonlit Abandonment" doesn't match "Moonlit Bear" an the Japanese title doesn't have an "of" in it

You're assuming the intention was for both song titles to emulate each other. Problems with this idea your suggesting as follows:

1) There's no Japanese for Moonlit Bear's title to compare to. How mothy would intend to structure either title isn't clear to us. Working purely off the Japanese, the title is literally structured as "[abandoned][moonlit night][tale]" so there's nothing emulating the actual structure of "Moonlit Bear", just the use of the term "moonlit".

2) Following this literal translating thread, you are saying we shouldn't insert an of to an English title because no Japanese equivalent (I assume you mean の) is included there. By the very implication of the term "translating" we're changing Japanese into an English meaning, not words. Over literal translations often don't convey the meaning accurately or naturally (ex: Above point would therefore be "Abandoned Moonlit Tale").

3) You purport the songs following each other equates to having the same title scheme in a previous post. If this was the case, why didn't mothy provide an English title for Abandoned like with Moonlit Bear? Even Heartbeat Clocktower and Handbeat Clocktower have had both English and Japanese equivalents of their titles to make the intended references clear in both languages.

With all the above in mind, I cannot support the idea the song title is intended to mimick Moonlit Bear. Moonlit Abandonment Tale, Tale of Moonlit Abandonment, or something similar is where I think we have the best balance of meaning and accuracy.