Translating 受け継ぐ as "released" or "inherited"?


How would you translate the following sentence?

> 今、千年パズルを解き闇のゲームを受け継いだ少年がいた。

I'd translate it this way:

> Now a boy has solved the millennium puzzle and inherited the dark games.

But in the English subtitles, they wrote the following:

> Now, the time where a boy has solved the Millennium Puzzle and released the
> Dark Games has come.

The verb 受け継ぐ is translated as "inherit, take over, be heir to" in these
dictionaries: Kenkyusha, Riidaasu, eijiro.




Your translation looks ok, although, I like how the given subtitles phrase it,
using "the time ... has come".

> Now, the time where a boy solved the millenium puzzle and inherited the dark
> games has come.

* * *

The quote is from [the opening of the first season of Yu-Gi-
Oh!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PG7eyV5soA).

I believe the story holds some implication that the "shadow games" are
_released_ as a result of the millenium puzzles being solved. This is most
likely the reason the translation uses the word released.

[The English dub can also be found on
Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3ggoyqXmU), and there, it is
translated as following:

> Now, 5000 years later, a boy named Yugi unlocks the secret of the millenium
> puzzle. He is infused with ancient magical energies...

* * *

All in all, I think the translation should be a combination of what is
faithful to the original, as well as what sounds good in the new language.
Thus, taking a word that isn't verbatim in the original, but in the context,
can be a good choice.

