How come an American like Phoenix Wright has Japanese ancestor

[adleen]

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[Joko]

Because localization decide to change:
Naruhodo Ryuichi into Phoenix Wright
Ramen into Burger
Japan into USA

It's all the original localization fault.

[Redblaze27]

A localization directors headcanon that became actual canon for the localization is that Ace Attorney is set in a universe where Japan never isolated itself off from the rest of the world.

So with this in mind, this game being set over 100 years before the mainline series, they can have it localize with minimal changes as there is an in-universe explanation already in-place.

[XelaBlueThunder]

I would say, the action takes place in the same universe as the latter games, it's just the fact that in the latter ones Japan becomes highly americanised, hence the english food and names.

[Feurisson]

A lot of Americans have Japanese ancestors. There are almost one and a half million Japanese Americans at the moment living in the US!

[Dracula's gay cousin]

Ace Attorney takes place in a world where there was much less anti-Japanese sentiment in the US and laws such as the California Alien Land Law of 1913 never existed, so one of Ryu's descendants likely ended up emigrating to America at some point and marrying an American named Wright.

[Redblaze27]

Or chose to assume a name change.

[Perdomai]

Phoenix's probably parents named him after the omnibus, as for how they got the surname Wright in the first place, idk maybe a coincidence

[InmaDjinn Samalik]

You know at this point they might as well re-translate the entire series if it gets THIS confusing to keep up with what's canon and what's "canon"...

[Redblaze27]

Originally posted by Samalik:

You know at this point they might as well re-translate the entire series if it gets THIS confusing to keep up with what's canon and what's "canon"...

Except its not.
There is at least a 100 year gap, so nothing to get confused about.

[Blur]

I mean Ryunosuke would be Phoenix's great great grandparent (hell you could probably add a few more greats to that), it isn't that much of a stretch to think one of my descendants could've migrated to America and eventually have children with American last names between in the 100ish years between DGS's events and Phoenix's birth. I'm southamerican and have a hispanic first name and last name but have ancestors who were Italians, ♥♥♥♥ happens

Of course in the end the actual answer is " ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " because we're trying to make sense out of a continuity mess created by very bad localization decisions made 15 years ago

[Nanarchiste]

I don't really mind about where the game takes place. It's not like if it was anywhere close to realism in the first place, and if changing place was somehow useful for the localisation (like adapting time zones to something we are more familiar with), good thing.

I feel a little more disturbed by the names though. Before this thread, I had no idea Naruhodo was related to Wright, and I feel I will miss a lot of connections to previous characters if they use Japanese names.
Translated names also helped to adapt a few puns, like Ooba-san becoming "old bag", those only work with translated names (although I have no idea if there are any in this game).

Definitely not a deal breaker for me and I will buy it day one for sure, but that's still kind of confusing :D

[Redblaze27]

I believe tour lead and our Payne of the game are the only connections of that sort.

[♥]

because ryuichi was never an american, you can blame the locolization team for it.

Names in other languages
Japanese
成歩堂龍一 (Ryūichi Naruhodō)

[♥]

Originally posted by ᴉuᴉɹǝʌɐpɐƆ ɐloᴉΛ:

Originally posted by Perdomai:

Phoenix's probably parents named him after the omnibus, as for how they got the surname Wright in the first place, idk maybe a coincidence

shouldn't nick's full name have both english and japanese bits then?

no, because locolization tryed so hard to shove the fact its "america" and i suspect are not the same team doing it because, you cannot possibley spin it into american and make some absurd fued about american hating british people.

[MATT SUNSTON]

The team hasn't changed at all, but with this game there's just no need at all to adhere to the main series' localization changes. The game is set over a hundred years before any of Phoenix's adventures, so it's as simple as saying that he had a Japanese great-great-grandfather.