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Japanese translation for my brand name!

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violentmaiden3334
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Japanese translation for my brand name!

Postby violentmaiden3334 » August 22nd, 2013 1:37 am

Hello lovely people! I require your intelligence to clarify a translation for me if possible.

I am starting a brand called 'Violent Maiden' and I want to include the Japanese translation of this in my branding (the brand is Japanese pop-culture inspired).

After doing some research, the closest I came to a Japanese translation of this name was hageshii shoujo (激しい処女). I would like to use this kanji in my imagery but I don't want to risk using the wrong kana/verb. Is 激しい処女 a correct translation of 'Violent Maiden'? Or am I a complete idiot?

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my question. Any help is appreciated!!

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Re: Japanese translation for my brand name!

Postby community.japanese » August 22nd, 2013 7:45 am

violentmaiden3334-san,
kon'nichiwa!

:lol: You're not idiot!
However, I'm very concerned about 激しい処女 for you to use...
The first definite association to this Japanese phrase is "porn".

This kind of checks (of translation) is often called disaster check on global marketing.
激しい処女 might be one of the possible translations, but 処女 is more commonly used as translation for "virgin".
Together with the word 激しい, which represents something is "rough", this brand name sounds very pornographic.

Brand name should be chosen very carefully, in order to avoid disaster.
And we can check candidate name(s) only when we know what the products are and what the target
markets are like.
For the example stories of failed global marketting, please search the stories about car named "NOVA"
and a vacuume cleaner's catch phrase...you can laugh a lot with those two :mrgreen:

Natsuko(奈津子),
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