

The English title within the for _Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii_ anime is
_Still world is Beautiful_ : [![The World is Still
Beautiful](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EehhW.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EehhW.png)

Crunchyroll calls it "The World is Still Beautiful". Finally, it's [English
Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Still_Beautiful)
says the literal English translation is "Even So, The World is Beautiful".
(Although the article title itself uses Crunchyroll's name.) Is this a
particularly hard phrase to translate? Both Crunchyroll's and Wikipedia's
titles sound fine in English.

Did the animation studio know _Still world is Beautiful_ would sound and look
wrong to English speakers? I can imagine it being just a poor translation, but
it seems more likely someone at the studio thought it would fit the series
better. If so, why?


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Why English title of Still world is Beautiful?


Sometimes, authors give their take on how their series' title is to be
translated, this seems like a case of a "google translation" of the title on
part of the author (It's awfully common). "Soredemo" can be translated as
"still" or "even so" depending on which is more grammatically correct, "Sekai
wa utsukushii" translates to "(the) world is beautiful." Equivalents for some
determinatives like "a", "an" or "the" don't exist in Japanese. Actually
parsing the title "それでも世界は美しい" through google translate gives "Still the world
is beautiful". So my guess is either the author or his editor wanted an
official English title... and ended up with that without proper knowledge of
English, as I said earlier, it's awfully common, just take a look at the
recent anime "Shuumatsu nani Shitemasuka? Isogashii desuka? Sukutte Moratte ii
desuka?", the original novel has this Engrish title underneath the title in
Japanese "Do you have what THE END? Are you busy? Shall you save XXX?"

EDIT: Realized I didn't give a take on the translation itself, either "Even
so, the World is beautiful" and "The World is still beautiful" are proper
translations of the title. But the official one is the weirdly worded one
because Word of God


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