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I hope you don’t mind me replying to you AND address some phrases Dabi said that others might not fully understand. <3

Important: This post is not meant to criticize or point out mistakes. There was never a mistake in anything. I just wanna do translation comparison, and analyze dialogues in Japanese and English for the readers to understand. And also for myself because I enjoy translating! Each person has their quirk to everything, especially in literature/art. <3 Thank you mangastream’s translation team for your hard work on chapter 191! 

1.  “Break a leg out there! But don’t go kickin’ the bucket!” 

I’m fluent in English, but I’m not a native, therefore statements that I don’t fully understand come up often. I really hope I’m not the only who had trouble understanding this “don’t go kickin’ the bucket” line. I had to go back to read the Japanese version to understand, and I would love to do a commentary on this. 

I admire the translator for using and combining two slang expressions s smoothly. I had to look up “break a leg” and “kick the bucket” to understand because I rarely heard or even use “break a leg” even if I understand what it means. Additionally, even if people were to understand base on the context, this line undeniably is complex, using slangs. 

Objectively, I want to say it’s too wordy in this situation. 

In the original Japanese version, his speech is much easier to understand, even to non-Japanese that understand the language and native-Japanese speakers. I’ve asked my friends in uni. 

また話せる機会がくるだろう　そのときまで。。。

 mata hanaseru kikai ga kuru darou  / sono toki made

E (literal): Another time to converse will come, until that time

My translation: We can talk at some other time, until then…

精々頑張れ死ぬんじゃねえぞ。seizei ganbare shinun janeezo

E (literal): If only you could do your best not to die. 

My translation: Do your best not to die!!! 

Bunny Girl Hero: How about telling yourself that!

I understand this is just my own version to the translation and the translator is not wrong. But I would want to keep the dialogue simple, straight to point but enhance to mood, not to STAND OUT from it. Since my goal is to make translation my career, I followed and learned from VIZ official translation. They are always more simple (swear words, slangs, slurs…etc) compare to fan translation online, because it’s translated so that young teenagers from middle school can easily read. 

2. “I thought so hard about it I went crazy”

This one is the answer to the ask, and also an analysis of Dabi’s line. 

Japanese fans speculated this line means Snatch reminded Dabi about something, and that indeed he used to think, thought, about the “family” topic. 

However, it’s meant to be an open statement like that. I truly believe we’re not supposed to fully understand what he means, but it will make us think and try to analyze what exactly does Dabi means. 

One fan also says the blood under his face probably holds some meaning, but never specified. 

Original Japanese means exactly the same as the English. He thought about it so much, he went crazy. 

I still have yet to flesh out his relationship with most of his in laws, but here’s a quick run through!

Victor - while I know there are a lot of fan hypotheses, for the purposes of this AU he has no close living relatives and this is explicitly stated. It’s part of why he’s so lonely pre-canon, and also why he’s filthy loaded from a massive inheritance. A major part of this AU that I hope to get to share more of is him really opening up to and getting used to having extended family he cares about.

Yurio - As previously mentioned, Yurio’s grandfather moves to Hasetsu after his marriage, which means he’s no longer living alone and freaking Yurio out, and he can spend his days relaxing in the hot springs and playing with his increasing number of great grandchildren all of whom he adores. While he gets along very well with Toshiya and Mari, he enjoys spending time with Hiroko best, especially given his not so great relationship with his blood daughter.

Yurio’s mother will make a brief appearance in this AU, just once at their wedding in Russia. She has some choice words to say to Yurio about his bride and the kind of relationship he’s entering into, and that’s all she can really say before Yuuri and Victor block access and make it clear that she’s not welcome if that’s how she’s going to act. She doesn’t turn up again, but Phichit keeps tabs on her to make sure she can’t ever bring harm to their family.

Phichit - Phichit’s an only child too in this AU, and his parents get along very well with the Katsukis and are very pleased with the arrangement. They trust Phichit to make his own decisions and have always just given him the tools and resources to do so, but their only concern was that they weren’t sure if giving up his many ambitions to pursue an early marriage + kids was something that he’d be happy with in the long run. Turns out the very nature of the poly relationships allows him to have both, which is why the parents are happy ^ ^; They’re both very busy with running their company (they’re filthy loaded, and Phichit doesn’t get his business sense from nowhere) so they can’t spend as much time visiting their grandchildren as they’d like, but they always hold very grand feasts whenever they’re in Bangkok.

Minami - I think I mentioned this in a previous ask too, but other than Yurio’s grandfather, Minami’s family will probably play the biggest role in this AU among the in laws after the Katsukis. Minami’s parents are both canonically doctors, rather famous ones in their region who also own several hospitals.

Minami’s older brother was also in med school at the time of canon, and is a successful doctor at the time of Future!Verse. An omega who specializes in omega prenatal care, Minami’s older brother becomes Yuuri’s primary physician after transferring into the Hasetsu area. He is…quite a character, short af but abrasive and aggressive enough to be an omega who made it out of an alpha-dominated med school and he’s fiercely protective of Yuuri and his right to make his own life decisions.

Minami’s parents (an alpha woman father, a beta woman mother) are also used to their relationship being criticized in the eyes of society and achieving success regardless and are both extremely supportive and helpful in giving advice to Yuuri and co. They’re honestly overjoyed to have grandchildren because their eldest says he’s married to his job and they were sure Minami would never get over his obsession with Yuuri (boy do they have stories). HOWEVER, both they and older brother will nag and embarrass Minami mercilessly when they don’t think he’s doing the best he could be at taking care of his family’s health, and while they’re ridiculously tender towards Yuuri, they also won’t hesitate to drag any of the husbands away for a vicious lecture if they think they need it…

Simply put - yes, he could support himself with figure skating, although not purely by competing. The majority of his earnings would come from sponsorships, endorsements, ice shows, contracts, and royalties.

Victor is definitely the highest paid skater of his time. Besides the big sponsorships that can cover a portion of costs, he’ll have magazine shoots and interviews, be invited to ice shows, and have endorsements in various fields (such as sportswear, jewelry, and food).

Training Cost  

This post does a great job of explaining the cost to compete, and mentions how skaters need some way to support themselves - whether that be ice shows, a job, or a bit of funding from skating federations in certain countries. It’s not just coaching fees and equipment (boots and blades), but ice time, travel costs, choreography fees (although Victor does his own choreo), music composition fees, costumes, physical therapy, consulting a nutritionist, dance instruction, day-to-day expenses....

It’s only the very top athletes or the very promising ones that companies are interested in sponsoring. For those top athletes in countries that care for figure skating, they'll likely get good contracts at some point.

Sherlock? ��

I grew up in the 90s and roller blades were considered old fashioned already. This is 80s at the very least xD

lol true!   Rollerblades were definitely first visibly around in the 80s, but they didn’t get international retail distribution / competition inclusion / all that good stuff until the beginning of the 90s, which makes sense, because I grew up in Canada (also in the 90s *old people on tumblr highfive YEAH*), so the 90s was when they really got big where I lived, all the cool kids had them, etc. (I lived on an unpaved road so they wouldn’t have done me any good and I WAS SO SAD let me just tell you)

LOL Thank you~! ^ ^

Yuuri wants to clean it. And he refused to move into it if they needed to hire maids which is what Victor initially wanted to do (”There’s 5 able-bodied adults here, if we can’t clean it ourselves it means it’s too big!”), so Phichit offered a compromise by buying a small army of cleaning robots ^ ^;

Thanks! :’D I’m actually pretty proud (gasp! how rare) of how those turned out, just in terms of showing visual and hopefully realistic aging ^ ^

I only took one week off, I usually assume the vast majority of my followers neither keep track of my exact posting schedule nor particularly notice my absence, though my anxiety often screams at me that everyone will hate me and get bored of my work if I ever take any time off ^ ^;