#ghauri

Ghauri:

Adept with control over crystals and design motifs of Cinderella. Like damn look at those heels, and those knee guards!!! If he knees you you're dead bucko. Also hes a dancer and rapper turned terrorist. And his bars are awfulllllll. Imagine him smoking your ass and the last words you hear before departing to the pearly gates escalator are: "Crack pack flack in a back sack! Quack quack?"

Miyo:

Her story is a classic twist on the Cinderella tale. (spoilers ahead) Miyo grows up in an abusive household. Her father neglected her. Her stepmother and half-sister constantly belittled, berated, abused, and stole from her. She was raised as a servant girl for years following the death of her mother. Everything changes when she is put into an arranged marriage with the prince-like character, Kiyoka Kudo. And slowly, over time, she grows more confident and learns who she is, what she wants, and falls in love. She has multiple fairy-godmother type confidants in Kudo's maid Yurie, a former maid from her old home Hana, and even Kudo's sister Hazuki. The opening song to the anime even includes a line about how the singer wondering if Cinderella stories even exist! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL42Vr4naOU

Ghauri’s Style -

The second panel’s original text/literal TL:

 「まかせろニケー! 俺のセブンズで直すぜオーケー!」 “Leave it to me, Desna! My septima will fix that up just fine!”

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“Hey Desna, don’t fret! My septima will fix that yet!

The third panel’s original text/literal TL:

「ちょっとだけ可愛く ! 決めたぜリメイク !」 “Just a little bit cuter, here’s my remake!”

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“With a cute appeal you can’t resist, here it is: REMIXED!”

I tried to stretch my wordplay muscles

Our Mother Tongues -

「テンジアンの言うコトカンジ多くてムツカシイデス」

“Tenjian likes to use a lot of Kanji, so it’s hard for me to understand.”

In Japanese, Tenjian liberally uses four-kanji-character-combinations called Yojijukugo. While these are used in Japanese, they have their roots in Chinese, as Japanese gets its Kanji from the Chinese alphabet. Tenjian does this as a way of finessing his nationality. To someone like Desna, who’s Russian, and doesn’t really grasp the structure of Asian languages, this is confusing for her.

There’s no good way to bring this over in English, so what I did was I changed Tenjian’s yoji to variants of the same idiom, and changed the “kanji” in Desna’s line to "weird idioms”. This makes sense in English since the viewer still has the knowledge that Desna is Russian and can assume she wouldn’t really understand English either.