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Hello everyone! There are no exact translation notes this episode, so as always with arc finales, I usually cap off these posts with my thoughts on various things that happened in Japanese that I don’t normally include in notes or subtitles.

Kawai Tell & Yuuhi

Kawai Tell actually has never referred to Yuuhi by just his first name and always refers to him by his full name (Oudou Yuuhi), even in this episode. Even if he’s speaking to Yuuhi directly.

Yuudias’ way of speech

I covered this briefly in the style guide I published, but I really want to bring attention to just how strangely archaic Yuudias speaks in normal dialogue. The closest equivalent that I can point to with the same feeling for English speakers would be something akin to a knight in fairy tales. He speaks extremely properly with archaic phrasing.

So to mimic that, we usually make his speech a little flowery and proper. The biggest point is that he cannot use contractions no matter what.

Zwijo’s personal pronoun

I imagine they’re giving the Velgearians unique pronouns and ways of speech just to emphasize how “alien” they are (especially as opposed to aliens we’ve seen that have “naturalized” to Earth, like Chupataro and Kawai Tell). Zwijo’s pronoun in particular (我 / ware) gives off a rather authoritative and royal feel. The best way to describe this is like Zwijo knows he has power and authority and does not need to flaunt it, because he just exudes it. Like being powerful is just a state of being.

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大いなる器 (ooi naru utsuwa)

If sushi girl isn’t giving me a pun, it’s someone else from the food trio. Menzaburo is using 器 (utsuwa), which can mean both a bowl (like for noodles) or great talent/ability.

Once again, there was an attempt to preserve the pun.

Otes vs Otis

Please go here.

王の資格 (ou no shikaku)

More literally this would be “the qualifications [to become] King”, but this was translated as “the right” [to become King] in the subs simply because of timing. When subbing, you have to also take into account whether or not your audience is going to parse a word they read on screen as fast as they’re saying it.

Seeing as ‘qualification’ is 5 syllables and a mouthful compared to “the right” (which conveys a similar enough meaning), this is the translation that made it to the final version.

Royal Demons vs Royal Demon’s

Last episode I subbed this with the apostrophe but this episode I didn’t. This was intentional, as I realized watching this episode that if they meant for it to have an apostrophe, they would add an extra syllable between the ん (n) and ズ (zu), which they did for Headbanger’s Destruction.