Well I mean, Inazuma's a bit worse off. With Pokemon at least the names are puns in English whereas, in Japan, a lot of the Pokemon are literally just what they are (Pikachu, for instance) or are puns that don't translate, and usually (but not always) they're more endearing. No comment on the characters' names, some are fine but when you get names like Hilda and Hilbert, I mean...
With Inazuma Eleven it's kinda the same, but the problem is you get really weird inconsistencies of characters like Mark Evans and Kevin Dragonfly representing...Japan. It makes the setting feel off and the characters moreso when they don't fit or feel a bit too localized. Plus, assuming they follow the same mindset that they took after the third game, the localization here will be pretty safe and stupidly kid friendly. They were pretty faithful with adapting moves early on in the series but later on, for whatever reason, they went off the walls, even renaming most moves that were already in English. So you got Spiral Draw becoming Whirly-Whirly, Aggressive Beat becoming Heartbeat, and really weird changes like that.
But I think the biggest worry I have is the voice acting...like...when I saw this news yesterday, I lost my shit. I couldn't be happier, esp as an American who never really got the anime and only ever got the first game officially released and then radio silence for four years. But honestly the localization for Inazuma Eleven really always seemed super unnecessary and I hope them releasing the game over here, too, allows them to lighten up a bit and maybe pull from either an American voice acting company or the solid VAs who worked on the rainfall games. Or add dual audio, you can't go wrong there. I'd gladly take that over five-dollar actors and whatever cringe they do for an English theme song this time.
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