User blog:Rhiabloom12/Lost in Translation

Many thing get lost in translation, and many thing get changed for a different audience. Some are more interesting than others and the most notable should at least be put under trivia. I was looking at the Italian wikipedia page of Winx Club and one thing that caught my eye is that it mentioned Chimera had a noticeable French accent; being from the original version, a little know fact, and defiantly relevant I immediately added it to the trivia section of her page here. On a related note many, many things were changed and/or added by 4kids with no basis and if it is felt necessary to mention it should at the very least be noted as being from 4kids.

Some of the lager things I have noticed that had been altered in the localization is the spelling of Daphne's name, the name of Musa's mother, and Stella's coined term. Before the season 5 upgrade with Nick, Daphne's name would be spelled as Dafne on Italian products and to my memory on the Italian version of the website as well (this lasted after the upgrade but was later changed). In Italy Musa's mother's name is Wa-Nin and not Matlin. I am not certain where this difference came about but in reviewing the more accurate Cinelume dub of her appearances I was unable to fine her referred to as Matlin but instead Wa-Nin in The Show Must Go On!. Finally there is the term fataloso which is a term combining favoloso(fabulous) and fata(fairy). This term has been used on the website a lot involving Stella and explained in the Winx Power Show.