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とんだカッパの川流れ (tonda kappa no kawanagare)

“Even kappas can be washed away by the river.”

I touched on this briefly in the subs with a small TL note, but what Sushiko is trying to say here is that they were careless and only wanted to help, but ended up contributing to Yuuga & co’s plight. She has a tendency to speak in weird sentences or puns (as evidenced by another TL note later in the episode).

お前の後ろだ (omaeno ushiro da)

We had a whole episode on this that I think explained a lot of it, but I want to say that he’s basically trying to tell Kaizo that his name is “Omaeno Ushiro”, but unfortunately it really just sounds like “behind you!”.

偉大なる俺様のターン (idainaru ore-sama no taan)

I translated this as “It’s the Great Me’s turn.”

I wanted to highlight just how highly Roa was referring to himself. If it was just a simple ore-sama that I think a lot of us who watch anime are familiar with, I don’t think I would have added the extra ham in the translation. However, Roa is using a sort of adjective here to directly mean “the Great”, and that’s 偉大なる (idainaru).

To give some context, 偉大なる is what you would use to refer to people like Frederick the Great, or Alexander the Great. I don’t think I would have done Roa justice if I left it at just “it’s my turn” or some variation thereof. He’s really full of himself!

神々しい (kougoushii)

Another word that Roa uses to refer to himself. The simple definition would be “godlike” or “divine”.

In my first draft, I translated his “divine draw” as “godlike draw” in order to follow the same translation I used when Roa says “I... can charm everyone... with my godlike qualities”, but it sounded a little too weird. Just know that both in that line and the “divine draw”, he’s using the same word.

“Would having it really make you feel more ‘majestic’?” (Original translation has been changed, thanks to corrections from Anons!)

This was a weird sentence to try and parse for me. Yuuga is basically asking if that’s really all Roa wants (like “do your ambitions only stretch this far?” kind of feeling). 

The exact Japanese is 「そんなものが君の威厳なの？」(sonna mono ga kimi no igen na no?)

Translated literally, it could be “Is that really your dignity?”  威厳 means something like majesty or dignity. “Is that it?” would have been another way to translate this, but considering Mimi’s “adultlike” comment afterward, I chose to use some more big words to give off the same feeling that Yuuga was.

Safe to say Yuuga was not at all impressed!

Hero of the Dawn - Lydacross

I actually heard this as “Rider Cross” and it is still the name I used in my raw drafts of this episode. Thankfully I found the brain cell to go on the wiki and found it already translated as “Lydacross”, which makes more sense.

You may notice that I decided to go with “Hero of the Dawn” as opposed to “Brave of the Dawn”. This was just my own personal preference.

But even without summoning Sevens Road Magician, he can still kick his ass!

This is very obviously not really what Luke says.

The original Japanese is 「だがセブンスロードを出さなくてもこれなら存分に暴れられるぜ！」

I highlighted the part that I actually paraphrased. Luke actually says “even without [his ace], he can still rampage freely”. I translated this literally in my first draft, but felt as though it didn’t have enough impact. Part of translating is making sure your audience actually understands the words you’re trying to put out.

So in the final version, I changed it to something more colloquial that any English-speaker would recognize in the same tone.

そのときに手巻されたんですね — He rolled his own road.

God I really hate sushi girl.

She’s making a pun here with 手巻する (temaki suru). You may recognize this as a style of hand rolled sushi, which is exactly what she’s referring to.  手巻する can also mean “to handmake” or something to that effect.

Basically, she’s trying to say “he forged his own road after all” or something akin to it. She’s just going about it in a roundabout way and referring to sushi because why wouldn’t she.

I translated it as “he rolled his own road” as an attempt to mimic the pun.

It’s a beatstick style!

Some TCG slang. “Beatstick” refers to monsters with high ATK. A “beatstick style” would be to try and get out high ATK monsters to “beat” your opponent down. A kind of brute force strategy popular in the old days, before the hand traps came into my house and killed my family.

Yuuga isn’t someone who would cheat even if hell froze over!

Luke actually says something more akin to “even if the galaxy turned upside down”, but I felt like “even if hell froze over” conveyed what he meant better for an English-speaking audience.

Goha Duels vs Rush Duels

A minor note, but by “Goha duels” they mean master duels (5 monster zones, 5 spell/trap zones, normal rules, etc).

Nick vs Nikku

Obviously Nick/Nikku is a pun name on the word for “meat” (肉, niku). The reason I decided to translate his name as “Nick” and not “Nikku” was mainly because he just looks too American to have a name like “Nikku” LOL

Luke vs Rook

And finally, the big one.

I tossed around Rook vs Luke in my head for a long time, and while I know the previous subbers who did episodes 1-11 romanized it as “Rook” (mainly because his entire name is a shogi reference), I much prefer Luke due to it actually being a name. It is also what Konami uses officially.