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Originally Posted by masaegu
1. Why would you ask a guy that's unfamiliar with the story these questions? I've only watched, what, 1/5000 of it because of you?
2. Why do you seem to think you need to translate everything that's said? The Japanese kids watching this anime won't understnad the phrase. To tell you the truth, I didn't even know it before. Why should the kids that you are trying to please understand it? They just happened to use an existing sutra instead of letting her say "Blah Blah Blah." I answered the question because it was you who asked. I would have ignored it had it come from a stranger because s/he need not know.
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This is my feeling on it, too. The original viewers wouldn't understand it, so why subtitle it? At best, add one of those "culture notes" fansubbers are so fond of at the top of the screen identifying it as a foreign language sutra spoken with a Japanese accent.