A Mild Difference in Super Danganronpa 2's Title

To be honest, I was torn between whether to put this article in the "Translation" section or here in the "Code" section. A similar article, that being my covering of Trigger Happy Havoc's English title, wound up in Translation, but after some thought, I think this subject is better suited there. As, while that article's main focus was on the translation choice NISA made, this one will focus much less on translation itself and more on just highlighting the differences between official releases.

As I'm sure you're aware, when you play SDR2 for the first time, you're greeted with a boot-up sequence early into the prologue, lingering on this shot:

But much like that Trigger Happy Havoc article I made, I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that this title we see here, from the Official English release of the game, is somewhat modified from its original counterpart.

Where Danganronpa 2 becomes SUPER DANGANRONPA 2, it also writes its subtitle in half-width Katakana. Ultimately, this subtitle reads: Goodbye, Despair Academy; I always found how they dropped the "academy" part somewhat interesting in the English version, but I presume this to simply be for the sake of sounding catchier.

But we actually have a third version in the Official Taiwanese version. Interestingly, they decided to also go for English in this intro. However, this version of the game was not only developed completely independently from NISA, but also came out several months before their version, too. Thus, this is how they decided to translate the title:

Which is a completely fine translation, as さようなら (sayounara) means "farewell" just as much as "goodbye" (I'd even say "farewell" often makes more sense in most cases, but it's flexible).

Anyways, while these differences are nothing special, the contrast between the English translations of two Official versions is just mildly fascinating to me, so it's worth documenting.