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I have one DVD player that won't turn the subtitles off, so I watched Howl's in English with the subtitles ... and it turns out either the English translation is waaaaay off or the subtitles aren't even accurate to the Japanese.
Unless it was an important plot point, not one single line of the English dialogue was the same as the subtitles. As an example, where a subtitle might read, "Sophie, don't stay here by yourself" ... the spoken English would be, "Sophie, come out and have a good time with us."
It was bizarre.
I'd like to put the subtitles to the "Lani" test of Japanese accuracy. Understandably, much of the English script was modified from the original so that the mouth movements would match. But the subtitles generally had a more stilted, less expressive form of English ... and I'm wondering what the Japanese dialogue really is.
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