Talk:Race/@comment-90.192.79.80-20161029113347/@comment-24.146.176.255-20161213020003

They definitely don't use demihuman in Japanese. They refer to them strictly as 亜人種 as can be seen here.

As someone who's read the Japanese, it's pretty clear that civilized races are all grouped under 'humanoid', which the fan translation also mistranslates as just 'human'. 亜人種 was translated as demi-human because 亜人 can mean that but in this case, subhuman is more appropriate. Neither is really 'wrong' but if we're going to discuss which translation conveys the author's intention and carries over more meaning from the Japanese text, the subhuman is the word to go with.

The fan translation is pretty decent but let's not randomly say it's better than the official English releases. People like to harp on the mistakes they find in the official translation but the fan translation has more mistranslations and is often poorly written in English as well as losing out in nuance due to the JP > CN > EN roundabout. It's simply forgiven more because its freely provided. Let's not kid ourselves.