Monday, May 14, 2012
Love is Like a Jellyfish: Squishy
We got chapter 48 of Kuragehime done a little early this week; very little editing was probably the main reason. The chapter title comes from the 2004 documentary My Date with Drew.
And lastly, a note for pg. 23. The original text had Tsukimi calling the candles "rousoku" (ろうそく), the Japanese word for candle, so normally it'd just be translated as such. However, a note on the page uses the English transliteration of the word, "kyandoru" (キャンドル) to make a small joke. In the Japanese language, the nuance here is that "rousoku" are normal, every day candles, or those used in religious ceremonies. "Kyandoru" are more the kind used in chandeliers and candelabras (like those used for a dinner for two), and the word carries that kind of connotation. As it would make no sense in English to use the word candle for both instances, Tsukimi's "rousoku" is translated as "wax lights" to preserve the nuance that she was using a word that meant the same thing, but sounded odd in the given situation.
Prepare for another round of notes written here for the next chapter, as Higashimura does what she does best when it comes to word puns and misunderstandings in Japanese that are often untranslatable in English.
Kuragehime ch. 48: Mediafire
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