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Someone made a Japanese translation mod for a game I play. I thought that the name for one of the achievements was off and wanted to give a suggestion. The name of the achievement is “Not the bees!” and is a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk
The translation was 「ハチとは違うのだよ、ハチとは！」. In the source material, the meaning is that he is begging for his life and implicitly asking them to use anything else (tantamount to saying “Anything but the bees!”), but I think the translation given sounds more like “It’s not the bees (it’s something else)!”. Personally I don’t think an idiomatic translation is possible here because Japanese people won’t get the reference, so I would go just go for something more direct. Can someone read what I have and give their thoughts?
勝手にちょっとおすすめをしたかったんですけど
あの「ハチとは違うのだよ、ハチとは！」という実績は違うんだと思います。
由来は男がハチで拷問される映画のシーンで、「No! Not the bees!」というのに、実際「やだ！ハチ捨てろぜ！ハチ以外に何でも使ってほしい！」みたいなニュアンスです。
それで、「やだ！ハチ捨てろぜ！」を使った方がいいかなと思っています。