as someone who has in fact passed the n2 for real, yeah, it's this. i have consumed many, many canons in both languages, and for probably 95% of them the differences between languages are either nonexistent or so minimal as to be functionally irrelevant. this isn't 20 years ago, localizations these days tend to hew quite closely to the original source and when they don't, there's usually a reason for it.
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