Board Thread:Suggestion and Critics/@comment-4996345-20150205012049/@comment-24187738-20150205051148

Regarding this, it's something of an eternal debate amongst the translator community (not just LL but as a whole) about how far do we go between the spectrum of translation vs localization.

Personally, I'm leaning more on the translation side because I do not want to show any disrespect to the lyrics-writer by trying to second-guess her or worse, rewrite the song from how she wanted it in the first place. You also have to understand that Japanese is a very imagery/emotional language. And songs do not always connect logically (but rather with ideas or with emotions), even in English.

All I can say is that ever since I took over, the team of translators here have tried our best to translate the songs sensibly while trying to retain the meaning in order to respect the direction Hata Aki took with them. If you could point out which sections of which songs that irked you, I could take another look at them (I wasn't around during the first half of the discography).

EDIT: None of these are "direct translations". There are a lot of places where we had to change the words slightly to retain their meaning. And your concept of "transliteration" is leaning too close towards asking people to rewrite the songs which I am not comfortable with as that would definitely not be official content.