[Japanese] Murderer mistranslated as hitman instead killer

Affected Language

:japan: Japanese

What type of report is this?

Bug Report

Affected Service (Game name, hub, or menu):

Murder Mystery Custom Server (Manor map) — Murderer role UI

Affected Text

殺し屋

Suggested Text

殺人者

Explanation of Issue

I’m from Indonesia actually. I’ve been checking all languages one by one in all games and lobby, just looking for translations that feel wrong, have weird meaning, bad words, or typos. This one stood out so much.

Okay so this one is way off.

殺し屋 literally means a hired hitman or assassin. Like, someone paid to kill people. That’s not what this role is at all! Murderer here is just the random player that kills others this round, nothing more.

What I suggest is 殺人者. It just means “killer” or “someone who killed”, exactly what this role is. Every other Japanese Minecraft server uses this word for the same thing, everyone gets it right away. The current one is just confusing.

You can see this wrong text in 3 places at once: big red text in the middle, top bar HUD, and the role box on the top left.

I found this on Manor map, but this is a role name so it should be the same for all Murder Mystery maps.

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This would be quite a big change, so I’m going to open it up for discussion.

From what I’ve seen, ‘殺人犯’ seems to be the phrase that would make the most sense; do you agree this would be an improvement?