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Episode 1418: “Something” Lurking Unseen

Translator Notes:

Oh boy, it’s hard to sufficiently convey just how aggressive You is being in the first panel.  Her exclamation reads as, Ussee!! Damattero temee wa!, which is a lot to unpack.  Ussee is a super-casual form of urusai, which literally means “noisy”, but when used as an exclamation, can also have the connotations of the English exclamation “shut up”.  Damattero is similarly a super-casual command form of damatte iru, which means “to be quiet”.  Temee is a very rough-sounding second-person pronoun that implies contempt of the person you’re speaking to.

It’s also important here to understand that when you’re speaking in Japanese using casual language to someone who isn’t a close friend, that’s almost always going to come across as contemptuous.  And the command form in Japanese - almost never seen outside of Japanese media towards one you hate - is pretty much always going to come across as rough and aggressive.

So in one tiny exclamatory outburst, You has managed to be rough, rude, and aggressive three times and to tell Ninetales to be quiet in contemptuous language twice.  Yeaaaah.  Hoo boy, she mad.  I only wish I could convey this properly in English, but to get the same effect there, I’d have to use a lot of profanity.  Probably something along the lines of, "Shut the fuck up and eat a dick, you god-damned piece of shit!”  Not exactly material appropriate for Granblue Fantasy.

That’s uhhhh

Nooo???