User blog comment:Crimson Marauder/Name Confusion/@comment-30381830-20161104072107/@comment-25942629-20161104115322

^This.

I only use the official translations for names. Since I'm a subscriber to the English Weekly Shonen Jump, which publishes Seraph in English diligently every month at https://www.viz.com/shonenjump, I get the official translation as soon as its released. Unless there's a special holiday, Viz releases each Vampire Reign chapter on the 4th of the month or the Monday immediately after the 4th. This is because Jump SQ is released on the 4th of the month, and Viz wants to be simultaneous with Japan without letting any early chapters leak through.

Unfortunately, stores in Japan sell the magazines early, and that's how scans end up online before the issue officially comes out.

The incorrect (and often very wrong) translations were made by fans and should not be trusted with a ten-foot pole. Chapter 51 comes out Monday, so I would wait to name anything until that comes out because renaming pages and fixing up links can be more time-consuming than it first appears.

Once, Viz accidentally misspelled "Karr" as "Kerr" in a chapter, but the editor of the series interacts with the subscribers in the comments section and fixed it once I pointed it out. It's very easy to communicate with the English magazine editors, and they usually respond within a day.

EDIT: Since the light novels and manga are published in English by two different companies (Vertical and Viz), those translations sometimes have discrepancies, like with Asuramaru (Ashuramaru in the light novels). For that, I use the first official translation (usually from the manga) for the page and leave a note about the other translation at the top of the page.

Other LN issues: http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:13737

Waah! Sorry for rambling so much!