Shikamaru Nara Quotes

Two words in the dub, and sub watchers have argued about them for twenty years. The Japanese catchphrase is mendokusai, an everyday complaint that something costs more effort than it is worth, which fan translations render as troublesome. The official dub chose this instead, and chose better. Troublesome is dictionary-accurate and belongs to no living English speaker; it turns a lazy teenager into a Victorian butler. Drag is slang at the correct social temperature, the sound of a boy whose objection to the world is that it keeps scheduling things. What the English loses is pedigree: the same word runs in his family, muttered by his father about his own marriage, and a complaint inherited down a bloodline of brilliant, effort-allergic men is characterisation two syllables cannot carry. The trade was still right. A line said this often has to sound like speech, and the version that sounds like speech is the one that became his signature.