#e032

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“She sells seashells on the sea shore.”

Rovian is saying another Japanese tongue twister here, so I changed it to an English one so it made sense. The original line was “having etched a terrifying painting of tofu on a folding screen with soy sauce”... which makes zero sense to anyone who’s not familiar with the tongue twister.

Luge’s way of speaking

This... is a very weird one.

Luge speaks in Hokkaido-ben, or the dialect of island of Hokkaido, which is located at the very, very north of Japan. Luckily, because I have been to Hokkaido a lot, have family there, and it’s one of the places I kind of want to move to in the future, I understand (most of) it just fine.

The problem comes with trying to translate his accent in a way that keeps his personality in English. There isn’t an easy way to do this as the closest equivalent that I could think of was, like... Alaska for the US.

So... I have decided to just not try and force the localization here and kept his dialogue normal. The most I have done is that Luge’s dialogue is very lackadaisical, aloof, and slow, so I used a lot of “yeah?”, “y’know”, “okay”, “sure”. Just really short, “lazy” phrases since he actually speaks pretty slowly comparatively to everyone else.

わや / waya "Oh no.” / “Too much.” / “Oops.” / “Too bad.”

In Hokkaido-ben, “waya” is about the equivalent of “dame” (ダメ -> “Damn”, “no good”, “can’t do that”) in standard Japanese. I say ‘about’ in quotations as it has more to its use than dame does, but I really have no way to explain it properly.