professa X Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Title says it all. I really want the English title not the japaneses. It's annoying as he'll trying to look for my series and updating. So anyone know how to fixit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Short answer, yes, it can be done, but via a 3rd party script that runs on your browser as opposed to MAL actually displaying english titles. Meaning that you (and anyone else who has the script installed) would be able to see english titles as opposed to Joe Soap who may visit your anime list and is not a MAL user. I started a topic a while back (on MAL) requesting the same thing, how ever it seems like its has been in the pipeline for some time, and my thread was classed as "Oh no, not another one of these..." (http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=688093) As for the script, It cant be used on Chrome as you are not allowed to install anything that is not found in the Chrome store, I.E. they have decided to not allow you to run non-trusted scripts... and there is no override option, so you would only be able to do this in Firefox or IE. This is the one I was currently running: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/544-sorted-english-titles-for-mal And if you want to do some reading, this is MAL's take on having english titles for anime: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=490777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 It's romaji not romanji. Also, some titles don't actually have an official English name, or the official dub name doesn't match what the Japanese name actually translates to. Example Bio Hazard is called Resident Evil in America. Well Bio Hazard is already English, but they had to come up with a different name at the time due to different copyrights in America. It's stuck as the name though. Then you have stuff like Kimi ga Nozomu Eien but it's named Rumbling Hearts in English. That is likely not what it translates to either. Some anime has English or Engrish official titles in Japan, while others are done with a Japanese name and not really intended to be translated. Though some are translated correctly. The thing is, MAL adds the English titles as "other names" otherwise called 'synonyms' for the titles under the picture of the show. Personally I add the English titles as a tag on my actual list so I can know what it is without having to click the link and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Forgot to add: The script is updated by the user who made it, therefore some anime in your list wont have English titles to them. Now if someone could write a script that grabs the English title from "other names", that would be idea. Scratch that, if MAL could just have a dammn toggle switch to switch between the two... The thing is, MAL adds the English titles as "other names" otherwise called 'synonyms' for the titles under the picture of the show. Personally I add the English titles as a tag on my actual list so I can know what it is without having to click the link and see.Good point! I didnt think of doing it like that... I use that tag section to write reviews about the show.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted July 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Thanx guys. my bad with romaji error. in my head i've always pronounced it romanji probably cuz of jumanji. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted July 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Short answer, yes, it can be done, but via a 3rd party script that runs on your browser as opposed to MAL actually displaying english titles. Meaning that you (and anyone else who has the script installed) would be able to see english titles as opposed to Joe Soap who may visit your anime list and is not a MAL user. I started a topic a while back (on MAL) requesting the same thing, how ever it seems like its has been in the pipeline for some time, and my thread was classed as "Oh no, not another one of these..." (http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=688093) As for the script, It cant be used on Chrome as you are not allowed to install anything that is not found in the Chrome store, I.E. they have decided to not allow you to run non-trusted scripts... and there is no override option, so you would only be able to do this in Firefox or IE. This is the one I was currently running: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/544-sorted-english-titles-for-mal And if you want to do some reading, this is MAL's take on having english titles for anime: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=490777 u can use tamper monkey in chrome for custom scripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 you can use tamper monkey in chrome for custom scripts. True, Grease monkey is another one. I have never really been bothered with using those kind of programmes though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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