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Omaeno-san

Omaeno-san’s hat says モ (mo), which is the first syllable of 問題 (mondai), meaning problem. His name is probably 100% Mondai, for Omaeno Mondai (”it’s your problem”).

Like how Omaeno Ushiro meant “behind you”, Omaeno Mondai is just another name pun.

With context now, I decided to change the name of the episode to being “your problem” instead of “not my problem”, since that’s Omaeno-san’s joke.

Rule of Three

Three is the number of choice here in this episode, so a lot of what’s going to be in these translation notes are just pointing out a bunch of 3′s that couldn’t make it into the English translations (because they wouldn’t make sense if they did).

Mitsuko = literally, 3 (mitsu) and child (ko, also a common suffix for girl names)

For reference, 三 is three, and can be pronounced/read as san, mi, or mitsu (and more, but I’m keeping it simple here).

仏の顔も三度 “Even Buddha’s face can only endure three slaps.”

Mitsuko’s summoning chant is literally just this idiom but she replaces “three times” (三度) with “3000 light years” (三千光年). The phrase means something akin to “too much familiarity breeds contempt” or “even the patience of a saint will run out”.

We had no idea how to properly translate this to include a reference to the number 3 and also make sense, so we tried our best with “even 3000 light years is too familiar”.

宇宙都市伝説 Cosmic Urban Legend / Outer Space Myths

For some reason, Mitsuko keeps referring to her monsters as though they were an actual archetype within Rush Duel, saying that they’re “myths from outer space”, but in a way that makes it a name.

When she says “when I control three Cosmic Urban Legends”, her cards do not make a reference to such a thing at all. In fact, all her new cards are Reptile support.

She speaks very strangely and I chose to keep that in the subs, but just know that all her cards do not mention 宇宙都市伝説 at all. It’s just Reptile support and she refuses to address it properly as such.

三千世界 Three Thousand Realms / “the Universe”

In Japanese, 三千世界 (”three thousand realms”) is actually used to refer to “the universe”. You may be familiar with another terminology, 世界 (sekai), which can mean “the world” or “society”, and is also a part of 三千世界.

However, when someone uses 三千世界 specifically, it invites a nuance that is a little more archaic and very philosophical. The practice of using “three thousand realms” to refer to “the universe” as a whole stems from a Buddhist teaching.

“Three thousand realms of existence are all possessed by life in a single moment.”

Simplifying very much (very, very much), it can be interpreted to mean that all things, both good and bad, contain immanence (divinity, the cosmos, godly essence, etc).

Saint Germain

I had no idea who this was before this episode, but here’s a cliff notes version of the Wikipedia page that Yona read and very graciously wrote up.

“He was dubbed one of the greatest philosophers to ever live, but his name and origins were a complete mystery. He deflected questions about his origins by saying unbelievable things like he was "actually 500 years old". This caused people to call him "The Wonderman", someone who is both immortal and knows all.”

It could be why Mitsuko also keeps using the word “immortal” for everything.

石の上に三年 “Even a cold rock will become warm after sitting on it for three years.”

When Mitsuko is pushed up against a corner, she says this phrase, but switches 三年 (three years) for 三分 (three times) as her Alien 33 goes up by 3000 ATK from 1100.

It’s another Japanese idiom with the number three that basically means “perseverance is key” or “patience will be rewarded”.

桃栗三年柿八年 “Peach and chestnut trees take three years to grow, persimmons take eight.”

After Mitsuko is defeated by Yuudias, while Yuamu is talking, she mumbles this. More specifically she mumbles the first part of this idiom (桃栗三年), then 残念無理 (zannen muri), meaning “it’s no use” or “too bad”.

The idiom means to be patient and that it takes time for your actions to bear fruit.

Mitsuko’s speech

Ms. 3 Meters (which is what Japanese people call the Flatwoods Monster) speaks very, very poetically, in a sense. She perfectly rhymes or alliterates three times a lot in her sentences and goes out of her way to say a bunch of idioms or change them up to fit her.

So, at this point, we have left the RoadRush sub era and come into tempsubs. I feel a little bad trying to do comparisons with tempsubs because they have clearly stated before that their subs were double-translated from Indonesian, so the “mistakes” made here aren’t necessarily mistakes, just quirks of having been translated through two different filters first (Japanese -> Indonesian -> English).

Most of the translation notes from now on will be much more like the regular notes you’d see on a weekly release. Unless something extremely weird comes up that needs to be clarified.

Under Siege: Luke Territory & The Lukeminator

During this section of the episode, Luke is just making references to old 80s-90s movies that were popular in Japan, like Under Siege: Dark Territory and The Terminator, of course.

Menzaburo’s way of speaking

You may have noticed his speech has been a lot more spiced up than it was previously.

This was a decision made after a lot of deliberation with others who also spoke and translated Japanese, some of whom are industry professionals. Menzaburo uses two things that warrant such a drastic translation / “localization”.

The speech tick でござる (de gozaru) and the pronoun 拙者 (sessha).

Both of these are meant to evoke an almost Shakespearian-era of speaking, but in Japanese (think moreso of feudal Japan). We could have kept his dialogue in plain English just for convenience’s sake, but Menzaburo’s style of speaking was done intentionally in Japanese and I wanted to mirror the feel they were going for with him.

He is dressed like a ninja and has a very old fashioned way of speech. He’s meant to feel like someone from a period drama, like a kid who’s watched too many hours of History Channel. You know, that kind of image.

For comparison, with the new PV drop for Go Rush, we know that Yuudias uses the speech tick である (de aru) and the pronoun 某 (soregashi), which are actually a little bit like “evolutions” of what Menzaburo used. This is also a weird way of speaking, but not so much as Menzaburo’s. Yuudias moreso comes off as someone who is extremely formal and like an old samurai.

And fun fact! Samurai existed up until the end of the 1800s! That’s around the time of the Civil War for Americans and the Victorian Era for those across the pond. They are a much more recent phenomenon than ninjas, who were active mainly around the Warring States (Sengoku) period of Japan (1500s).

Anyway, all this to say that we made the change so that Menzaburo was a lot more accurate to his portrayal in Japanese and would come across as someone extremely old-fashioned like he did in the original.

That said, Elizabethan English is not my strong suit, as really English isn’t even my native language at all. Please let me know if some parts sound weird.

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