Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31599868-20191009002402/@comment-39999857-20191019080501

Definitely. If the translations are going to be cut off from the non-Japanese speaking audience, who rely on them for their entire comprehension of the songs, then what was the point of translating it?

That being said, I wish translators in the western part of the fandom were directly "hired" by the producers, like how they collab with illustrators, mixers etc. Often times when the producers do provide translations, they're (unfortunately) inaccurate. Besides, if the translators are more familiar to the English-speaking fandom, that part of the audience is likely to be more engaging.

Idk a whole lot about it though so I'm probably missing the finer details behind translator-producer relations.