#e041

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ディノワ Dinova / Dignois / Dinois

Having spoken with YoshiDuels and Toyjo, who are both native French speakers in the community (and Yoshi is a coder for Rush Duel on EDO, fun fact), they told me that given it’s pronounced “dee-no-wa”, the better romanization would be Dinois, and that Dignois in particular (with the g) looked like a more masculine name.

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持つべきものは権力ですね It really is all about power!

Kaizo is twisting a Japanese idiom here that usually goes 「 持つべきものは友だちですね」, which can mean either “It’s good to have friends like you” or “You really should keep your friends close”. He switched the word for ‘friends’ with ‘power’, so it becomes “It’s good to have power [like yours]” or “It really is all about power!” since he’s gone power-hungry.

I only wish I had realized Ranze-kun's feelings earlier.

To clear up any confusion, this was not said romantically, nor was Ranze’s delusion of him romantic either, as Rinnosuke confirms later. Gakuto was talking about Ranze’s sense of duty to him and how she feels like she failed him because he had started to (ironically enough) “modify” the Sougetsu-style and no longer relied on her and Rinnosuke as much.

お世話になります I'll be in your care.

This line that Ranze says to Neil is a little ambiguous due to how little we know of the relationship between them as well as Neil’s vague “that goes against providence” response. For simplicity’s sake, we translated it as “I’ll be in your care” or “I look forward to working with you”, like when two co-workers meet each other for the first time. In this case, it’s used as a polite greeting in a business setting. 

However, I also know some people may say that it can also be translated as “I owe you a great deal” or something similar. To not make any rash assumptions, and since Ranze talks in the present tense, I translated it simply as a greeting.

Ranze’s taunts

Ranze is making a lot of puns this episode with Gakuto’s monsters, which are already puns by themselves. Some of them were quite literally untranslatable and so were lost in translation, but for others I was able to think of a new pun in its place.

Some examples were “I Nande-less can see through all of [your] tricks!” (making a pun with Nandes, which sounds like なんです [nandesu]) and “Ru-loser” (replacing the beginning part of Gakuto’s Ruler aces with 負け [make], which means “to lose”). 

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All in all, this is how we felt at the end of this episode.