Kenji Iguchi

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A reminder: You should not attempt to pick apart the individual word usages—even if it jumps at you as problematic—of any and all translated posts whatsoever, as the original posters didn’t even use those words (let alone the language) to write the post to begin with.

The US release of Exit 8 is subtitles only and has no dub? If true it seems an interesting choice, I thought US folks were generally averse to having to read subs.

The Fahrenheit temperature scale gets as much attention in Japan as getting its name forgotten and confused with Kelvin

Astro Bot (and others in the game, like the bosses) seem like they’re only communicating through unintelligible squeaks and grunts, but if you’re a Japanese native speaker you can tell they’re actually speaking Japanese. This is true even when the game is set to English!