Editing Kakegurui Trip Fulltext (section)

==Afterword by the translator==

The events of Kakegurui Trip don't quite fit the timeline of the manga and should be seen an a parallel universe story. You can sort of make it fit as an intermission before the start of the Election story arc in volume 7, but this comes with inconsistencies.
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Here is a longer explanation of the word play in chapter 1: The school name Hyakkaou seems to mean 'the king of a hundred flowers' and the island name Ryouran something like 'stirring in disorder'. When you take them together and disregard the 'king' part, they mean something like 'beauty pageant'. However, this can be used more abstractly so it doesn't have to be woman, the thing they excel in doesn't have to be beauty and it doesn't have to be literately a hundred of them. So, 'power meet', 'high level summit' or 'a large gathering of people of excellence' can all be translation candidates, depending on context.
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In the original text, Kifune is addressed by her staff and Kirari with a honorifics construction that is descriptive of her job; 'Kifune-manager'. I thought it was best for her staff to call her 'boss' and for Kirari to not use any name politeness at all for anyone. Kirari rolls like that in the official manga translation, so I thought she should do that here as well.
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In both the novel and the manga, some name politeness rules are used by characters when speaking their inner monologue. I thought this was a bit too alien for the western reader and scrapped it. It just doesn't seem right to use politeness inside your own head.
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If you are irked by my choice to not capitalize playing card and suit names; Ace made me do it so blame him. It felt better if there was some distinction between the card and the guy.
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The poker variant the writer had in mind had jokers included and had no split pots. Las Vegas tournament poker has no jokers and does have split pots. However, nothing happens in the novel that would warrant elaborating on these things so I just avoided mentioning anything related to them.<br>
A split pot is avoided by having the rules say one suit is stronger than the other. A high card king of spades defeats a high card king of clubs, for example.
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The Japanese language approaches many things differently, especially the poetic embellishments. Because of this, I had to take liberties in my attempt to make the novel pleasant to read in English. Please don't assume this is a line-by-line accurate translation. I had to pour some of my own soul into it as well.
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I changed some minor details to strengthen the cohesion of the novel. I think the writer did a banger of a job bringing the characters to life, but there were logical inconsistencies. Those that has an easy fix, I fixed. Those that would require a more heavy-handed fix, I left in.
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I hope I managed to deliver you something that made your day better. If you have questions, you may be able to hit me up on the Reddit or the Kakegurui Discord.
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I want to thank everyone on Discord who helped me out. Also, those who had started an abandoned translation before were an inspiration. It had occurred to me that it would be easier to make a new attempt now, because the OCR and translation bots had improved dramatically in the last couple of years. 
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