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== Chapter Two == |
== Chapter Two == |
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| − | === Pan Yue === |
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| − | From my research, this is talking about a Chinese writer. It was almost certainly a Japanese person in the original, but I don’t have that. |
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| + | The original compared Sakaki's features to that of Pan An, a legendarily handsome man in ancient China (original reads 貌似潘安). His elegance and beauty had been compared to that of 'a willow of jade swaying in the wind', and is considered to be one of the Five Most Handsome Men in Chinese History. |
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| + | Since this cannot be translated appropriate into English, I had taken the liberty of placing this into the context of Greek myths, which hopefully relates more to English readers. Ganymede is a very very handsome youth in Greek myth, so much so that Zeus, kind and father of Olympian gods, fell hopelessly in love wiht him and took him away. |
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=== Neptune King === |
=== Neptune King === |
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| − | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptuneman. I don’t know |
+ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptuneman. I don’t know anything about this. |
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| − | === Yang Guifei === |
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| − | Copied word for word form my Chinese dictionary: Famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong, blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the Anshi rebellion. |
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| − | (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eibhgnpocflidkjpcgjafalpiffkpice) |
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| − | Again, this almost certainly used to be someone Japanese. |
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| + | === Helen of Troy in ancient Greece === |
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| + | Once again, I have taken the liberty to change the original referrence, which was made to the legendarily beautiful Royal Consort Yang of the Tang Dynasty in ancient China, to another equally legendarily beautiful queen that English speakers would know more about. |
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| − | === "Like personal computers, sexual harassment, or convenience stores" === |
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| + | Despite Mushi being written by a Japanese, Royal Consort Yang is present in the history of many far-eastern countries and would certainly have been known to the ancient Japanese. Her beauty had caused incest, civil war, and fratercide. At then end, she was condemned to the death sentence since the king finally decided her beauty is a power of evil. The Chinese proverb 'woman is the root of all evil' stems from her. |
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| − | In order, according to a TN in the Chinese version, Japanese people use “pasokon”, “sekuhara”, and “konbini”. There was also something else that didn’t correspond to something in the Chinese TN so I left it out. |
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| + | Used in this context, it can be considered as an innuendo that Rinne is the key to Sakaki's downfall into sin and purgatory. |
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| + | === "Like pocket bells, personal computers, sexual harassment, or convenience stores" === |
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| − | === Guri-chan === |
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| + | The Japanese abbreviate pocket bell into 'pokeberu', personal computer into 'pasokon', sexual harassment into 'sekuhara', and convenience stores into 'konbini'. |
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| − | I really have no idea how to translate what Rinne calls Guriko. There’s no English equivalent, and since we’re using Japanese terminology simply Romanizing the Chinese won’t work. So, I used my very limited understanding of Japanese from anime and visual novels to make up something random. There’s a 99% chance it’s flat out wrong and needs to be changed, though. Though most people who read this should already know this, “chan” implies cuteness, familiarity, and small size, which can be offensive in some situations. |
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=== Doraemon === |
=== Doraemon === |
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Revision as of 08:20, 15 April 2011
蟲と眼球とテディベア
Chapter One
kakka
Literally means "Your Highness" or "Your Excellency". The kanji is "閣下"
Daddy Long Legs
An anonymous benefactor. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy-Long-Legs_(novel)
Mushi and Bugs
Mushi means Bugs in Japanese. However, the kanji used here (and in the series title) is 蟲, as opposed to the one for bug, 虫.
Sentience
The ability to feel and perceive subjectively. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
... And for some reason, translating this particular portion of text reminded me of the Zerg :\
Filial Imprints
A phenomena where animals learn or imitate certain characteristics of a stimulus. Its used in this case to descibe animals which treat the first thing they see as its parents. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
Gankyuu Eguriko
Literally means Eyeball Gouger - a person that digs out eyeballs. The kanji is "眼球抉子"
Chapter Two
His features handsome enough to rival Ganymede
The original compared Sakaki's features to that of Pan An, a legendarily handsome man in ancient China (original reads 貌似潘安). His elegance and beauty had been compared to that of 'a willow of jade swaying in the wind', and is considered to be one of the Five Most Handsome Men in Chinese History.
Since this cannot be translated appropriate into English, I had taken the liberty of placing this into the context of Greek myths, which hopefully relates more to English readers. Ganymede is a very very handsome youth in Greek myth, so much so that Zeus, kind and father of Olympian gods, fell hopelessly in love wiht him and took him away.
Neptune King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptuneman. I don’t know anything about this.
Helen of Troy in ancient Greece
Once again, I have taken the liberty to change the original referrence, which was made to the legendarily beautiful Royal Consort Yang of the Tang Dynasty in ancient China, to another equally legendarily beautiful queen that English speakers would know more about.
Despite Mushi being written by a Japanese, Royal Consort Yang is present in the history of many far-eastern countries and would certainly have been known to the ancient Japanese. Her beauty had caused incest, civil war, and fratercide. At then end, she was condemned to the death sentence since the king finally decided her beauty is a power of evil. The Chinese proverb 'woman is the root of all evil' stems from her.
Used in this context, it can be considered as an innuendo that Rinne is the key to Sakaki's downfall into sin and purgatory.
"Like pocket bells, personal computers, sexual harassment, or convenience stores"
The Japanese abbreviate pocket bell into 'pokeberu', personal computer into 'pasokon', sexual harassment into 'sekuhara', and convenience stores into 'konbini'.
Doraemon
Robot cat from an old manga/anime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon
Chapter Three
Nutgall
Tumour-like growth of plant tissue caused by infectious agents such as bacteria and fungi. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutgall
The nutgall mentioned here is a specific type grown on certain poplar trees, extremely poisonous, and used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is also the name of the traditional Japanese story mentioned here.
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Obake no Q-tarō
This is an old manga/animation involving a little mischievious ghost who's horrified of dogs. It was serialized between 1964-1966 and 1971-1974 as a manga, and was adopted into animation 3 times during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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Guriko's Offering
Getter Robo
An old manga/animation that had 'New' Getter Robos, which involved improved designs of normal Getter Robos. It is referred here as joke about Guriko's attempt at changing her own name. More information is in the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getter_Robo
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