#attiyah

Episode 1382: Between Love and Vengeance

Translator Notes:

For anyone curious about the somewhat odd way that Stan always refers to Tabina as “miss” or “the miss”, the Japanese that that was based on was the fact that he always calls her jou-san, which is a somewhat venerating way to refer to a young lady from a good family (good as in “of noble stock”, not as in “healthy and supportive”).  It’s an inexact and slightly clunky translation, but I can’t think of a better way of conveying that idea in English.

It’s hard to properly convey it in English, but Yngwie speaks in super passionate language, by Japanese standards.  The standard way to express that you love someone in Japanese (if you do so at all - even doing that at all is a bit impassioned) is to say suki (”I like you”), or usually at most daisuki (”I really like you”).  Yngwie, however, uses the language of ai suru, which literally means “I love you”, but is incredibly strong language, and is almost never going to be heard in Japan outside of sappy romances.  He also refers to his hypothetical love interest here using the second-person pronoun kimi, which is somewhat diminutive language (you might, for example, hear a teacher referring to a student using kimi), and is also the pronoun of choice used towards the listener in Japanese love songs (seriously, it’s everywhere in pop songs).

Suddenly, Bollywood!

I am deceased. My poor sibling babies T.T

So this is probably a pretty big spoiler (oops?) but hearts be broken in the New Game forum roleplay. And being that I like torturing myself, I did a fanart to cope with my feelings

Episode 1383: Tabina the Indispensible

Translator Notes:

I don’t speak a word of Arabic, but I did my best to do enough research to have at least somewhat of an idea regarding what’s being sung in the second and third panel.  The Japanese version in the second panel contains the katakana for Saada Taaro, Saada Taaro, while the third panel reads Taaro Masiiru, Taaro Masiiru.  Taaro is the Japanese name for Tahar Island, but I believe it may also be a transliteration of the Arabic word tahir, which means “perfect”.  My best guesses for the other words are that saada is meant to be the Arabic word sa’ada, or “happiness”, and that masiiru is meant to be masir, or “destiny”.  Put together, this would make the two phrases translate as “perfect happiness” and “a perfect destiny”.

Episode 1380: My Beloved Tabina

Translator Notes:

Tabina’s name is a bit of an oddity, comparing the Japanese and the English versions of her name.  I imagine that part of the localizers’ decision to put a B in her name is that the V sound does not exist in Arabic, and that “Tabina” is indeed an Arabic name - however, her name in Japanese is specifically タヴィーナ, not タビーナ, which would suggest that the Japanese authors intended her name to be “Tavina”.  Japanese doesn’t have the V sound either, so historically, the B sound has been used as an approximation thereto - e.g., the Japanese word for “event” is ibento - but in modern days, the character ヴ (pronounced bu, same as ブ) has begun to be used as a way to differentiate between words intended to have a V versus words intended to have a B.