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Lol, it's interesting how much they apparently changed from the manga. I remember when the Clear Card anime was about to come out there was an extra chapter you were supposed read leading up to it... and then I found out that the manga ends in a completely different way from the last movie, and I also just found something about Sakura and Saoran's relationship offputting. I'm glad they twisted things in Clear Card so that it's actually the anime's continuity and the manga's continuity is "fake" 😂

I haven't read the manga, that's why I was confused. I don't think that relationship is really presented strongly in the anime.

Ohhh I forgot about that. I don't think it's really a big thing in the anime, definitely no engagement.

I think Kaho is one of Eriol's underlings, I don't remember anything romantic. It's been a couple of years since I last rewatched it though.

"Problematic age gap romances" like what?

I would respond to that also with "I have never found this to be true" (or at least the vast majority of subtitles I have read I would not characterize that way). But of course there's no real way for me to deny your own experience, unless you want to give specific examples.

(Also, l am talking about anime and typical anime subtitles. I just noticed that you mentioned Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; I think it's very possible live-action subtitles are done in a categorically different way from anime subtitles.)

They usually condense the thought into a shorter sentence and you lose a lot of flavor in the dialogue.

I have never found this to be true (as someone who knows some Japanese). If you're just comparing sentence lengths, that's a broken comparison: it's been shown that Japanese is less information dense per-syllable than English, so an English translation of Japanese will tend to have a shorter length. (And to compensate, Japanese is spoken faster than English on average.)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594