I want to see a collab between Josh and MBT just reading funny german cards

Me as a german just looked at the long ass words in the card names and my reaction was like "yeah these are just german words"

In the Brazillian version of the anime they made a mistake while translating weevil's entire deck Larvae moth in the anime became "boca de larva" which stands to larvae's MOUTH Every moth monster got a mouth in its name, so weevil boss monster was called: - "Mais perfeita de todas as bocas" - Perfectly ultimate great MOUTH They even joke about how weevil cant stop trash talking and has a big mouth lol

So this is from Magic: the Gathering, not yugioh, but one of my favourite mistranslations is the card Descend Upon the Sinful, which when translated into french mistakenly used the word "'pêcheurs" for sinful instead of "pécheurs". So the cards name in French instead reads as "Descend Upon the Fishermen"

As a german, you never really find Gerümpelsynchronisierer funny until somebody points out how funny it is.

man disappointed that no one brought out that bls in french got translated as "knight of the black candleholder" because SOMEHOW the translater thought that it was that kind of "luster" the card name was referring to another fun one is that Treeborn frog in french for a long time didn't had "frog" in it's name (was called rainette, which is a great pun tbh) which meant that on top of having "excluding frog the jam" every frog card ALSO had "but including treeborn frog" adding like an entire line to almost every frog's effect

Shout out to French calling Darklords Fallen Angels, which just makes them feel much cooler to play.

TGS Anime covered this, but one of the virus cards in italian has it's effect last for 38 turns

Technically, the japanese Yubel names makes sense, they are just messed gramatically. They do sound like somebody wrote them down while suffering multiple consecutive strokes, but they are not just random words thrown together.

In the Bulgarian dubbed version of the anime they call Graceful Charity “Christian Love” and Pot of Greed “+1”. The first one is funny but the second one is more interesting to me because it implies that whoever did the translations for the show probably played the game.

Fellow viewer from germany here, just gotta say, english people trying to pronounce german words will never not be funny, u could do a whole format just doing this and i would gladly gobble up every episode, seeing how happy it makes people trying to say the words out loud is just like the cherry on top ❤️

Similar to the UA ace, Cup of Ace is "Pokal des Asses" because nothing says "make your opponent draw 2 cards, more than getting your ass poked

I didnt comment this on the actual thread (because i forgot) but Eldlich the Golden Lord is called Eldlich, o Senhor Dourado in portuguese, which IS the correct translation, but Dourado is a fairly common last name in Brazil, and "senhor" also means "sir" or "mister" so the name feels a lot less grandiose in portuguese, since it accidentally becomes something mundane like "Eldlich, Mr. Johnson"

You know, the worst part of all of this is that "Hochgeschwindigkeitsroid Gummiband-Schütze" is a LITERAL TRANSLATION of the english name of the card. "Hoch" means high. Roid stays the same. "Gummi" means rubber, so "Gummiband" is Rubber Band "Schütze" means shooter. However, "Geschwindigkeit" Is the MOST COMMON TRANSLATION for "SPEED" and solely responsible for turning this into word salad.

In spanish the Fabled archetype is called "Fabuloso" which is technically not incorrect, but that word is always used to say "Fabulous", so you have cards called like "The Fabulous Cerburrel". Thats the whole reason I started using the archetype back in the day, which became my favorite ever. On the games I always call my Fabled Decks "¡Soy Fabuloso!", that is "I'm Fabulous!"

Whoever translated Clockwork Night into German apparently couldn’t tell the difference between Night and Knight, so the card is now called “Uhrwerk-Ritter” (Night - Nacht, Knight - Ritter)

Slightly related to the brazilian translation of Red Eyes Black Chick, but for Magic The Gathering instead: One of Nicol Bolas' brothers is named Piru, right? In portuguese, "Bolas" means "'balls" and "Piru" is slang for "cock". So in MTG, we have the Cock and Balls brothers.

Back here because I just remembered the funniest Italian mistranslation ever. For some reason, they interpreted "Jade Insect Whistle" not as an insect whistle made of jade, but as an insect made of jade whose name is Whistle.

Because the German word for "Nurse" in "Nurse Dragonmaid" is "Krankenschwester", and the translation team didn't know it stood for nursery, we have "Drachenmädchen Rentnerwachskeks" as "Dragonmaid Ernus", to keep all the letters. But thats just the 3 words "pensioner", "growth" and "cookie" back to back. Its so weird to say. I guess they couldn't be bothered to find anything else pronounceable? I guess the consonant to vowel ratio makes it rather hard to find anything with explicitly no meaning.

I can't believe Dimension Rizz didn't make it into the video

In the spanish dub of both DM and GX Paradox Brothers say that they can summon a "not heavy attribute Monster" (mistranslation of Light)

4:30 small correction the H in portuguese isnt pronnounced as it is in spanish, and due to some gramatical differences the "LH" is pronnounced together as "lee" so the actual pronounciation of the card would be closer to "Pin-to ne-gro de o-lee-os ver-me-lee-oos

I have to spit out a bunch of Italian translation issues here right now. Excluding stuff already mentioned by other commenters: -The original translation of V-Jet Tiger's flavor text that interpreted the reference to dogfighting as in actual dogs fighting -Naturia Eggplant that interpreted the "Eggplant" part as an egg that is also a plant -Dragonmaid Sheou keeping the English name while all the other ones had their anagram names properly redone (I think it's because the word they chose to translate House Dragonmaid could potentially include the N-word when you shuffle the letters around) -In fact, Dragonmaids were all mistranslated as Dragondamsels ("Dragonzella") -Miracle Kids being translated as "Miraculous boy" despite not only the English name was plural but Hero Kid was made into a girl -And also all those card names that in Italy somehow dodged censorship, such as Des Kangaroo and Barrel Dragon being reverted to their original Japanese names of Death Kangaroo and Revolver Dragon or TY-PHON being called a "Super Starmurderer" -Also, remember Ill Blud? Well, for some reason they decided to call him Galeogrugno, which basically means "Pug-faced convict".

When you are a naughty boy the german "Sechs Samurai" will visit you Honorable mention to spyral btw which is translated to "SPIORAL" in german for some reason

this one is for my brazilian brothers: abyss splash in spanish is Abisalpicadura

While we can (and should) laught at bad translations, we need to keep in mind that in many cases, especially before the brand was established, translators would only be given the text itself with little to no context, and strict daily quotas to meet. This could explain mistranslations such as "light" becoming "not heavy", and "donkey" being misread as "monkey". Italy seems especially prone to this, as the demand for translation is very high and English literacy is relatively low.

Fun fact about MtG translation in that case: There exists a card named Wild Nacatl, which was just a bulk common from a set 15 years ago. But in the States the german version somehow rose to nearly 10 bucks because it was the Wilder Nacatl, which made it somehow better.

there's gotta be a 2nd part of this thread topic, I've never seen Joseph laugh this much 😂

I like how in gendered languages, Hiita changes sexes between versions. iirc regular Hiita is male, then the Familiar Posessed is female, link is male.

Junk Synchron's German name goes beyond itself. Junk Archer = Gerümpelbogenschütze Junk Blader = Gerümpelklingenkämpfer

I often talk about "Whitebeard, the Plunder Patroll Helm" and how its french translator misunderstood the "Helm" part as coming from "helmet" instead of "helmsman". Leading to the dude being Casque de la Patroll du Pillage instead of Timonier de la Patroll du Pillage. There are countless examples like this one.

One of my favourite cards, Anteater Eating Ant, got mistranslated in German and is just called "Anteating Anteater" for us, which... Yeah, that's just a regular Anteater.

"Testudo erat Numen" and "Numen erat Testudo" have the same name in English, French, Italian and Spanish. German decided to translate the Latin into "Die Schildkröte war göttlich"/"Göttlich war die Schildkröte" ("The turtle was divine"/"Divine was the turtle") Everyone else has to learn Latin to understand the lore of this turtle, but the german translation team found it very important to give it to us straight that this turtle used to be divine. also, "Reverse Buster", random packfiller that busts reverse (=face-down) monsters, was translated into german with "buster" not as in "destroyer" but as in "what an old person calls a young troublemaker" to "Umkehrbursche" ("reverse lad") Through a couple layers of abstraction he's basically gone from "face-down destroyer" to "buddy who turns things around"

Junk Synchron as the first ever Synchron got a small translation mistake in German. All other Synchron monster are just named Synchron. Synchronisierer is just Synchronizer and because it still fits the archtype with this wording, it was never changed

As an Italian “Frienddonkey” always messed up so hard with my head. I thought that maybe there was an Easter egg or smth similar for years. Than I realised that Italian translators probably did what Italian translators usually do and that’s using Google translator for everything… now would you look at what happens if you missclick a “d” for a “m”? Yeah, exactly…

German card translations are the best! Fun fact: In Germany we have multiple schools named "Albert Schweizer Schule" or "Ass" for short, we had a big sign on the school parking lot saying "ASS"! Exchange students and visitors always smiled or cracked up laughing when they saw our "ASS" Hoodies. Now let's enjoy Mbt's Perfektes Ass!

ZATCHBELL MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

In Brazil we have a meme with Heatleo or as it is called in the Brazilian translation,Salmangrande Leardor. A guy was making a 3x structure video when the structure came out and he accidentaly said he's running 3 Leardar and 3 Leardor and he showed 6 copies of Heatleo(the structure had multiple copies of it). Sometimes I see people refering to Heatleo as "Leardar e Leardor" as a reference to this

Angwitch is Enghexe in german. Which translates to tightwitch

Well as a german speaking person i must say i have never actually thought about most of these lol

Ein Land ein Reich ein Kommentarbereich

Wild tornado when the wilder tornado enters the room: : o

In French, Jack Jaguar cracks me up, because they just translated the name "Jack" to "Jacques", which, while the same name, does not have the same vibe to it. Also, love Ojama Black in Spanish, for some reason.

btw "verga" can mean "penis" in italian too. It's like a very noble of saying that, but still.

Why do i want to see whatever version of 5Ds where Yusei summons BEEP BEEP!

It’s genius on Antique/r/s. We could have had proper modifiers for ages rather than several troop keywords.

These are the best Twitter Thread videos the ones that just mock the card art or language. Please do more of these Joseph

One of the best misstranslation in italian is naturia eggplant, for a reason that I will never understand, they translated it with “uovopianta” instead of “melanza” (wich is the right translation of eggplant). They translated it LITERALLY by dividing the 2 words, so egg (uovo) and plant (pianta). I REALLY HOPE KONAMI FIRED THIS TRANSLATOR

We need a part 2

5:14 shitty grammar aside this roughly translates to “the extremely sad dragon” which is amazing

I need to learn German. For multiple reasons, but now this has become one of the top reasons.

Morena penetrante y Verga del Mago are very funny to Spanish speakers

There's an exception to the italian Black Luster Soldier versions. Don't know if it's still like that, but at some point Envoy of the Beginning was properly translated, becoming "Soldato dell'Oscuro Desiderio - Emissario dell'Inizio".

The cool thing with words in german is, you can string alot of independent words together and they still build a "legit" word. Like: "Schiffsfahrtskapitänsmütze" which directly tranlates to:" Ship,drive,captain,hat" but it really means: " Captains hat " XD

Man the best german mistranslation has to be "Ameisenfressender Ameisenbär" for "Anteatereatingant". The literal translation is "Ant eating anteater". Which is definetely wrong because there is no anteater on the card, it is one giant ant.

Japanese being weebs for germany... why does this sound familiar

2:02 Sombrero one was AMAZING

The fact no one put up Where Arf Thou's spanish printing "Donde Esta Usted" is criminal, it's probably my favorite foreign version of any card

This is just Joseph laughing at Spanish and German wtf

is this gonna impact the cardnarket price for german cards?

Mi Amigo Purrely didn't make it :(

Bip Bip becomes even more funny when you realize that since 5D defense position monsters in the anime literally turn blue.

i am German and just died watching this xd

I find really funny that lightsworn dragonling in italian Is "dragoncello - fedele della luce". Dragoncello literally translates to Tarragon. So they nailed the true lightsworn Spice card in italiano.

7:53 Oh, that explains why the spanish version of Nimble Angler was not in the video.

meine damen und herren wir haben ihn

Germans: Nooo you can’t use German cards when even we rarely use them 😭 English People: lolol, Portal der Sechs!😂

I thought there was no way that sombra was sombrero, but then it was!!!!!

I'm Italian and i never realized how funny deck lockdown sounds until i heard it from an English speaker 💀

Vampire Lord was translated in spanish as Señor de los Vampiros.

i am SHOCKED that *nimble angler in spanish* wasn't mentioned.

I cannot believe DireYGO remembered and acknowledged the existence of Zatch Bell. Please somehow convince MBT to playthrough the old gamecube game.

Shoutout to the first pring of galaxy eyes tachyon dragon in Italian, which was called the equivalent of "tachyon eyes galaxy dragon", and the chaos form omjtting the "neo" and just opting for switching the words galaxy and tachyon

Abyssactor Comic Relief was poorly translate in French. They did not refered to the comedy archetype but translated the individual words literally: the abyssactor is comically relieved

To be fair, Japan likes to throw English words together at random too.

Another fun German one, Chicken Race got translated into Chicken Game for most localizations. One of the exceptions is Germany, where it became "Hemmung!"

If you don't have Spanish Copies of 'My Friend Purrely' You're doing something Wrong. MI AMIGO PURRELYYYYY

I looked up Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon, thinking it had to have some kind of funny translation. The French translation (according to Google translate, so it might be wrong) is so bad

6:34 On the side! There I am Gary, there I am!

Here's one from the tcg. For some reason the tcg decided to split the True Dragon archetype into two different archetypes "True Draco" and "True King" hence why all the support lists both.

Nobody mentioned how Dragonmaid Ernus is "Rentnerwachskeks" in German (lit. "pensioner wax cake") 'cause it's an acronym for the German word for Nurse which is "Krankenschwester" (lit. "sick sister").

How they didn´t mention "Golden Ladybug" in spanish? "Vaca de san antonio dorada" back to English would mean "Golden Cow of San Antonio"

Blast Magician in Spanish Is translated as "Traumaturgo del Tormento" the translation has nothing to do with the name.

This is just 8 minutes of MBT laughing about the german language ... and I love it. Just play master duel in german next time :D

Kozmo Strawman in Spanish can be LITERALLY interpretate as CUM MAN

I have a funny anecdote with Salamangrandes... Some friends and I when to a TCG mall (Yes, in México those are a thing) and in a store were the Saland on an open binder on the front. One of my friends starts laughing after missreading "Salamangreat HeatLeo" in Spanish (Salamangrande CalienteLeón) and comes to us and says: "Guys, were to Obelisk that I read SALAMANGRANDE CALENTÓN (Salamangreat The Hot One) and though It was fake, it it was my dislexia". Now and ever I refear as Calentón to HeatLeo in any change I see it.

This episode is just mbt laughing about German

Hey at least they dodged "Red-eys Blacked Dragon"

Dark magician in Portuguese is mago negro as in black magician which is interesting because that is called in Japan

Ein Deutsch sprechender MBT ist nicht das, was ich erwartet habe, aber das, was ich gebraucht habe

0:07 reference? 2:02 Sombrero Galaxy 5:24 they really are fans of Germany

I still have my german red-eyes blue dragon I pulled from LOB as a child... one of my most treasured cards

Don't look up Eradicating Aerosol in Italian.

I’m guessing that mbt couldn’t put the spanish name for piercing moray because of youtube tos Ps: for anyone wondering in spanish is called “morena penetrante”

U.A perfect Bussy

Italian also has the "naturia uovopianta" which is the literal translation of egg plant even though we have a separate word for eggplant

I know it's in reference to the anime, but in *Poland* the first run of the anime was done by one of the cheaper networks and I swear they got like the janitor or something to translate it. The two most memorable names were when Mokuba summoned Man-Eating Plant they translated it as "A man eating a plant" and later Black Luster Soldier got translated as "Soldier of Black Lust". Those became a local meme for as long as I played the game.

I can't believe Joseph skipped over Morena penetrante

This is the best content I've seen from mbt so far.

Holy shit a gash bell dub reference