Talk:Happy Monthiversary/International versions/@comment-4531340-20140109054512/@comment-4531340-20140116011454

Ah, ok, yeah, I'm used to anime dubs airing here in the US either having their titles changed from Japanese into English using digital paint (I know the One Piece and InuYasha dubs do this; pretty sure for One Piece, it's on all copies of the show, whereas for InuYasha, I'm not sure if it's just the adult swim airing that does it, or if the English titles are also kept on the DVDs) or the Japanese titles are left, but an English subtitle translating them is placed on the screen, either at the top or bottom (the only one that comes to mind for this case is Sword Art Online). The only real time a narrator reads the title out loud is when that was done in the Japanese original (so using One Piece as an example again, Luffy [the main character] reads the episode title aloud both in Japanese and in English).

And as for important text (an example from FiM, I think, would be the text in the "silent movie" portion of MMMystery on the Friendship Express, like Vengir mentioned below), narrators are never used for that here in the US; the text is either directly translated (as in, the original text is edited out, and the English translation is edited in in its place; I think the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood TV airing did this for subtitles giving the location in early episodes, and I know when the Skypiea arc was airing on Cartoon Network a few years back, the locations on the map in the map beginning of the last episode recap [if you've seen One Piece before, you'll know what I'm talking about] were translated in this fashion) or else subtitled (the original text is left alone, but English text, placed somewhere different on the screen, where it's obvious that it's not a part of the original animation, translates it so we can understand it).

I dunno what the European Spanish dub of FiM does for that, but it always fascinates me to learn more about non-English versions of FiM (since the English version is my native version, and so I already know quite a bit about it).