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If you care to give the author his exposure dollars, flip through the raw chapter here:
https://storia.takeshobo.co.jp/_files/shakunetsuno/00/Eyecatch text:
NEW SERIALIZATION!!!!!!!?
Strong and cute idols, descend♥
Scorching idol girls
Private teitoku academy (帝鵠 - imperial swan)
A prestigious school with a history stretching over 116 years.
The words of a certain student marked the advent of its renaissance.
"Isn't that lame?"
No.4980
>>4979Koyori:
The very best…
No.4989
Chapter 2 part 2 will come after a brief pause.
Meanwhile, don't forget about Asano's exposure dollars, here:
https://storia.takeshobo.co.jp/_files/shakunetsuno/02_1/ No.4990
Kururi uses "desu" a lot. The anime made the "controversial" decision to parlay that into "death", which is a creative touch I'm not entirely against but decided to drop and only use when contextually appropriate. In this case, when Kururi dropped the deadliest of all death flags here
>>4985 I decided to use it. Everywhere else I left it out but in hindsight (just 5 minutes after translating… Impressive!) I could have left it in as "desu".
No.4991
>>4990>The anime made the "controversial" decision to parlay that into "death", which is a creative touch I'm not entirely againstIt makes zero sense, I can only assume that the translator worked on Symphogear previously
No.4995
Christine:
TA KE YAB YAKETA!*
Morumo:
Fufu
She's even cute when she blabbers in english♪
Koyori:
English…
Agari:
That was english?
…Takeyabuyaketa…?*
Ah!
That reminds me, isn't England where table tennis was invented?
(SFX: MAGE!)
Koyori:
INVENTED!?
SO YOU'RE STRONG!?
SO YOU REALLY ARE STRONG AT TABLE TENNIS!!?
I… I-I'm sorry…
Agari:
When it comes to table tennis, this girls gets too excited…
Christine:
The table tennis is not as big in the England as in Japan.
I only ever played the table tennis when I arrived to Japan.
But
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*Your guess is as good as yours. Maybe mixing japanese and english? Take a cab (that's been) roasted? Tah keyabb yaketa? I made it appear as if they were words in the Christine speech bubble, but I merged them all together in the Agari speech bubble.
Concerning Christine's eyes, 碧い could be green or blue, as usual for the japanese, but going by their track record, English characters have blue eyes. It's the italians that have green eyes. If you have blue eyes, you know how they can become green sometimes, or vice-versa, so there's that too. Tourquoise? I didn't want to go with too fancy a word.
No.5005
Never forget Asano's exposure dollars:
https://storia.takeshobo.co.jp/_files/shakunetsuno/02_2/I toned down the awkwardness in Christine's speech in the end to leave room for the drama to have impact.
No.5006
>>4995>*Your guess is as good as yours.タケヤブヤケタ is a standard example of a 回文. A タケヤブ is a place where lots of bamboo is growing. Palindromes seem to be a character trait since in one of the earlier panels her bowing sound effect is ペコリコペ. There might also be a connection to もるも. Also as a final TL note, Morumo probably comes from モルモット, which means guinea pig.
No.5012
>>4986What's Kiruka's second bubble? Something about Group F?
>>4979Would it be better to call these the Group Stage and the Knockouts? And she's saying you have to top the group and then win the knockouts to make it to nationals?
>>4990Ignoring it is pretty much what we did before. "Death" is pretty nonsense in this context and "desu" is just being weeb for the sake of being weeb. Her speech tic isn't really that important.
No.5013
>>5012>Her speech tic isn't really that important.If you're not seeing crazy speech tics you're not reading Asano
No.5014
TS is done. Redrawing and QC should be done in the next day or two.
>>4999Missing Koyori's line in the bottom middle panel.
>>5006Hmm, I guess "Bamboo grove of bamboo" could work, but given the context it's probably better to leave it as nonsense Japanese.
>>5013It's not necessary to understand the dialogue or her character, is what I mean.
No.5015
>>5014>Bamboo grove of bambooit's usually parsed as 竹藪焼けた
No.5017
>>5014I hope you're not planning to release the translation in the next 24 hours because there's a couple of things I haven't said (and a couple of lines I forgot to translate…).
No.5019
>>5017I wasn't going to release with missing lines and I'll wait if you say got more notes to add, but everything else will be ready within 24 hours. With 15 page "chapters," next-day releases are totally doable for me.
No.5021
>>5014>Missing Koyori's line in the bottom middle panel.Koyori:
Tears…!?
>>5007That would be even better, certainly.
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No.5022
>>5000Forgot one detail. It says next to Kureeto Yaama's introduction that she's the buchou for the table tennis club.
'''Mejirosaka middle school
Kureto Yaama (club president, third-year)'''
No.5023
>>4991>>5012>It makes zero sense, I can only assume that the translator worked on Symphogear previouslyI always assumed it was the best compromise the translator could reach to bring the "desu" tic accross, by somehow tying it up with Kururi's goth loli aesthetic (which we hardly get to see because she's almost always in her practice uniform). In my opinion, the big victim of the anime translation was Hokuto.
>>5006>ペコリコペI was aware of the guinea pig thing, but silly me had me reading that as ペコリペコ. Another (cute?) thing I noticed is that Mejirosaka's shirt's buttons are designed to look like the eyes of the mejoro birds (white-eye birds).
Palindromes work nicely, but how to go about translating that? "Bamboo grove o'bamboo" would bring across the literal meaning while retaining some of Christine's fluster, but it's a bit of a tongue twister, plus it loses its palindromic properties. BAMBMAB? TAKEYABUTAKEYA, translator's note and call it a day (I prefer this option)?
>>5012>What's Kiruka's second bubble? Something about Group F?Wow, I completely meshed the translation of both speech bubbles together but that was not at all my intention…
Kiruka:
Let's see…
It's a shame, but Mozuyama is in a different block
Suzumegahara is in block F, so we'll play…
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>Would it be better to call these the Group Stage and the Knockouts? I prefer to call it group stage, but I'll leave that up to the typesetter.
>And she's saying you have to top the group and then win the knockouts to make it to nationals?This is an important note.
First of all, Kiruka is talking exclusively about the city tournament. She makes no mention of nationals.
Secondly, I left this part intentionally vague. That's because the word usage by Kiruka here is much the same as the word usage in
>>4973 , which literally states "those who
won the district prelims", but then we see Tsubame in
>>4975 and we know for a fact they didn't win the final game. There could be a system at the city tournament level that allows teams besides the ones that won their groups to move to the tournament stage (like say, the second places of each group having a different tournament bracket that repicks teams for the final tournament stage), or systems that allow for more teams besides the tournament winner to get to nationals (perhaps the second finalist of the city tournament also advances, much like apparently the second finalist of the district tournament advanced to the city tournament. Furthermore, seeing as Tokyo is the capital city, there might be some bureaucratic shenanigans in place to allow more teams to make it to nationals as, one would assume, it's the most densely populated area in the country, therefore has the most schools with the highest level of competitivity).
I decided to future-proof this translation in case something happens further ahead, like Mozuyama's death flag being a red herring, them winning the city tournament and Suzumegahara, Tsubame, Mejirosaka and Teikoku still making it to nationals (fingers crossed).
No.5025
One more thing.
>>5023>ペコリコペI
think it would be funny to bring this across as bow-wob, but what I think does not always match what everyone else wants.
No.5030
Chapter 2 is up:
https://mangadex.org/chapter/14d4adaf-c271-4786-b5fd-bbd6c171d673Really wondering how many of these rematches are actually going to happen.
I'm not sure how you want to handle the split chapters thing going forward. If you TL the first part early we could either release it before part two is out or hold onto it to make the full chapter release faster. If you'd rather TL it all at once, though, I don't have a problem with that.
No.5031
>>5030Good job!
Cute Shinobu.
No.5032
>>5030>>5004Thank you! Pretty good chapter. I already like Christine. I guess it was time for the story to pull another "fun vs WINNING" theme, since the last time this happened was back in the first Koyori vs Agari match.
If the tournament is round-robin and not instant knockout if you lose against one school, we might see some surprises.
>Really wondering how many of these rematches are actually going to happen.I'm not sure we'll get Mozuyama vs the gang but I'm confident Kururi will get to play onscreen pretty soon.
No.5035
>>5030GJ
>I'm not sure how you want to handle the split chapters thing going forward. If you TL the first part early we could either release it before part two is out or hold onto it to make the full chapter release faster.I can't guarantee I can translate the chapters as soon as they're out, but you can tell that, for now, Asano is structuring the halves so they have a clear cliffhanger. If my timing happens to be good, you can get them out in halves if you'd like.
It seems like this thread has hit the bump limit. I might make a new thread for the next translation.
No.5036
>>5035Alright, we'll just go CBC based on the timing. It's nice to match the official release pace, but not really worth rushing if we're only beating part 2 by a couple days. I do fully expect the breaks between parts to get longer once Asano runs through whatever buffer he's built up.
I'll keep an eye out. I can also provide contact info if you ever decide dumping is too much effort.
No.5064
>Hanabi and Hokuto lost
No.5072
Any news of the translations?
No.5117
Sorry it's taking so long, but I've been awfully busy. I should have some time to dump translations this week.
No.5133
Why did the new thread with translations get deleted?
No.6099
Follow-up threads:
Chapter 3 to chapter 7 part 1
>>5145Starting at chapter 7 part 2
>>6082
