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Kanzenshuu @kanzenshuu.com · 29/01/2025

Time for another spotlight from our new FAQs section: the "J" in "SSJ"! From early English-language fandom usage (including text summaries and VHS fansubs), to other international dubs using "Saiyajin" intact, we explain it all! www.kanzenshuu.com/faqs/ssj/

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FAQs | The "J" in "SSJ" - Kanzenshuu

A comprehensive and historical breakdown of considering "Saiyan" vs. "Saiya-jin" when adapting サイヤ人 into English

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Emilio Río @eriorguez.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

TTBT, SS Goku sounds like a boat, bwahaha.

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Von @vondbz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We’re talking about a story in which if you become blonde with blue eyes (actually green but whatever), you’re much stronger and better than everyone else. Adding “SS” to it would make our crazy parents and politicians in 1992 even worse! So yes, the answer is Nazis (mostly).

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fuzen.bsky.social @fuzen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is SUPER interesting! This is something I've been wondering about ever since I was a kid and for whatever reason I never bothered to document myself, it's SO awesome to have closure on the "SSJ" nomenclature!

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Papahrf @papahrf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

That's how I still do it. If I don't use the J, I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Or naming a ship.

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