Li Toh

I wasn't planning on making this tumblr have translations but I guess it will!! You can find my original post here below!

I did a simple translation of the Japanese version of Promised Wildfire also known as 燎原の火の燃ゆる日/ Days of Burning Wildfire.

I am not a native speaker so there are things I probably misunderstood or got wrong. But dang the VA, Mr. Shinnosuke Tachibana, had me clutching my pearls! I usually listen to it in Chinese with English subs so it was a first for me to hear the Japanese versions with the Japanese text, and it was so pleasant!! And dang I love Homura/Qi Yu/Rafayel so much lmao.

My thoughts on the English localization compared to the Japanese is that I understand why they localize the way they do, and it makes sense. I think it's pretty close to the Japanese version, but there are differences. There are a few conditional statements in Japanese which makes me like the characterization of Rafayel and his relationship with MC so much more.

One of the differences is the "If I don't do this..." vs "But this is how you do it..." - I prefer the Japanese version over the English localization because the こうしないと has an implied condition to the statement, showcasing cause and effect of her romantic surprises e.g. "If I don't kiss her endlessly then how do I show my appreciation?" Which also connects with the following line that explicitly follows up with "By what means should I show my appreciation?"

Or "bold" vs "greedy." I prefer the characterization of greedy.

Anyways, it's just little nuances like that which are fun to compare over.

I hope you enjoy!

P.S. if you have any corrections you wanna give me for the translation, let me know - I looked it over twice to make sure I didn't transcribe wrong.