Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-13965364-20180215050553

I'd really like to get a solid answer for this from an admin or site moderator, since I've been going back and forth with another user about this.

So a lot of anime and manga are licensed in English. Therefore, many of the powers/abilities that appear throughout the series have official English translations that come straight from the official English sources (Viz, Funimation, etc).

However, I noticed that many of these names are left in their romanized Japanese on this wiki, even though they have official English names.

Would it be acceptable to change these into their English names? Using Naruto as an example, it would be something like changing "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"--->"Shadow Clone Jutsu", since that is what it's called in official English media.

If the answer is no, what's the reason(s)? Since this is an English-language website directed at an English-speaking audience, I thought it would make more sense to have stuff in English, no? What's the point of leaving them in Japanese if an official English name is available? It's not like we understand Japanese. 