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Originally Posted by Layton13

Uhm... As far as I'm aware, combi IS an English word. It sure as hell shows up in the dictionary.

I don't want to nitpick really, but while It is a word, it doesn't get used much, and usually not for just any combination

COMBI

ADJECTIVE
1. denoting a machine that has two or more uses or functions
a combi oven
a combi fridge/freezer
a combi boiler
NOUN
2. a vehicle or aircraft that has two or more possible uses, for example to carry passengers or to transport goods

It's just very context specific, and even if it meant any combination it's still not something most English speakers say, especially in the context it was used in this episode, so it always looks kinda off

I do sort of have a pet peeve with combi too so maybe I'm biased, idk, it just feels like combo sounds more natural in English so why not change it? I get combi is based on the English word combination, but loan words in Japan don't always have the same meaning or ring to them as in English.

For example in a lot of anime (I especially heard it a lot in dragon ball super) characters will often describe a really dire situation where people could die using the phrase "pinchi" literally a loan from the English phrase "pinch" but as in "we're in a real pinch!" but that would be a weird thing to say in English if a space monster was killing people or whatever, you know? So it makes sense to leave out the English word in the English translation for something that sounds more natural In that case (usually it'd just translated to "we're in trouble" or smth like that in the case of pinchi, at least from what I've seen)

that's how I feel about combi as well, it's just better to localize it to smth that sounds natural, I get honourifcs and such because they can add context to scenes and be hard to translate, but I think it's best to keep translations natural sounding or it can really take some people out of the moment