User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Blog: Admins Board/@comment-765166-20131028131155

Hm, I am aware that the fan translate "Unknown Sea of Trees" is correct, but upon looking at the Japanese names of it, plus two other Areas in other MH series (with one of them making it outside Japan:


 * Great Forest (MHFU and Frontier) - 樹海
 * Great Forest Peak (Frontier only) - 樹海頂部
 * Unknown Sea of Trees (MH4) - 未知の樹海

Upon inspection, they all use the same characters, which is 樹海. And the only Area which was released outside Japan through Freedom Unite, uses this name which is the Great Forest.

Also, looking at Great Forest Peak's edit history, it has been previously named as "Sea of Trees" which is why the term is familiar to me.

So my question here is, since we translate things not just by how it directly translates but by using pre-existing official terms (which is why we don't use Furu Furu but we use Khezu since Khezu already exists as its English equivalent term), why not have the name as "Unknown Great Forest" ?