To use a national or international news event to justify a local connection, in order to exploit a bigger story and air it on a local station as if it were news.
"Hey! We have to LOCALIZE this airplane crash. Go find some relatives of any airline crash victims who live nearby, and exploit their grief under the ruse of "humanizing the victims", in order to put yourself into the national story. That will get some eyeballs tonight at six and eleven!!"
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Get the nationally localized mug.a dumbass who translates anime but always self inserts or brings politics into it. Then always acts like they're right when they receive backlash.
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Get the Localizer mug.The act of making a product suitable for a culture foreign to its native region. For example, translating and recasting the voices of characters in an anime to English. This can also include some other modifications, such as changing a play on words or a common idiom native to the original region that wouldn't make sense in a foreign language, or even censorship of certain images and actions like removing a cigar from a character or replacing piles of bones with loaves of bread.
The Japanese and Korean localization of League of Legends excluded Graves' cigar because depictions of smoking would bump the rating of the game to 17+, making it inconsistent with the American version's rating.
The American English localization of the hit new game "Britain's Bikini Battlers" removed the "u" from color, flavor, behavior, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor, splendor, favor, endeavor, clamor, glamor, valor, vapor... well, you get the picture. Also, they replaced the word "arse" with "ass" and got rid of the joke about Tories running through wheat fields.
The American English localization of the hit new game "Britain's Bikini Battlers" removed the "u" from color, flavor, behavior, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor, splendor, favor, endeavor, clamor, glamor, valor, vapor... well, you get the picture. Also, they replaced the word "arse" with "ass" and got rid of the joke about Tories running through wheat fields.
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