@Matthew Schroeder
First of all, no offense but calling "official translation is bullshit" and then trusting the old Devil's Lair scanlation is sounding a little biased for me. I wasn't an active member on that website; but as far as I remember it was a passion project done by member nicknamed CaT singlehandedly, not by a translation group and without a disregard to CaT's work, we can't be sure of the quality of the translation.
"I checked the Brazilian Portuguese Scanlation and the script aligned way more with the English Scanlation than the English Official Translation"
That might be because it was possibly translated from the English scanlation of Devil's Lair rather than the original Japanese manga.
"The official translation is bullshit that was already covered in the other thread."
I rechecked the thread. Is this the sentence you are talking about? : "The official translation just gives further emphasis to the fact that he didn't fuse the worlds."
Paraphrasing, you are saying "If Mundus didn't fuse worlds, he can't be a Planet level". Again, without any disregard, that sentence doesn't sound very convincing to me. Sure, it has merit as an argument on the case; but let me case my counter-argument(s).
1) We are not definitively sure if the Demon World is indeed a "Planet" or a "Dimension"; but since we saw how the travel between those worlds happen, it's more reasonable to assume they are separate dimensions rather than celestial objects. In DMC3, Dante gets access by Temen-ni-gru, which works by the separation of the seal between two places, not by teleportation, ftl travel, etc. In DMC1, Dante passes through a portal/dimensional rift-like gate to enter the Demon World. In DMC2, Argosax's proximity tears a hole into the Demon World, etc. Him not being able to fuse both "worlds" don't mean anything in this context if they are not planets or celestial objects.
2) Two worlds are separated by magic, not something you can break apart with sheer strength.
3) When we talk about the two worlds, we also need to talk about the war between them. Yeah, Mundus is not the almighty of the DMC universe, there are many who are on equal footing around him like Sparda, Argosax, Abigail, etc. Of course we don't know the full story; but it's reasonable to assume even if him not being able to fuse the two worlds proves he's not Planet level, he might be unable to do so because of the war and the rivalries that came with it.
I don't think such a thing is concrete evidence even if we base the assumption to scanlation or the official translation. I already made my counter-argument on the scanlation case; but let me reiterate here.
1) We have no definite proof on that demon being Mundus himself.
2) Mundus has no motivation to destroy the Human World as a character; but rather rule the two worlds together. It is a very out of character move if he really intends to break the Human World apart.
3) It is not a professionally done translation.
@TheJ-ManRequiem
Fair enough; but that's not enough reason to trust a scanlation. Also, until DMC4SE, DMC never had Japanese voiceacting besides the anime and as far as I remember, there are no complaints for both manga and anime translation other than localization is trying to make Dante sound hip and cool. Still if you guys are saying the official is also dubious, we can always resort to the Japanese raw.
https://puu.sh/ycA5h.jpg
If someone here knows Japanese well, this should clear things up a bit.
http://puu.sh/ycA5h.jpg
