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Episode 1417: You’s Assault

Translator Notes:

Hey, I’m back! Work’s finally begun to settle down, so I’m itching to get back to translation. :)

The specific “rough language” that both You and Fenrir are using in the Japanese is the pronoun temee, a second-person pronoun similar to kisama in tone, in terms of there being obvious contempt for the listener implied in the word. In English, there didn’t seem to be a single word that I could use that would accurately capture both You and Fenrir’s state of mind, so instead I just used two different insults to approximate the idea in the original Japanese.

You’s name is one of those unfortunate Japanese names that reaaaally doesn’t translate well into English when one uses a literal character for character translation (her Japanese name is ヨウ, for which “You” is a one-for-one translation of the characters). It’s supposed to be pronounced “yoh”, rhyming with “toe”, but it obviously looks like the English word “you”, the pronunciation of which is going to be the pronunciation an English speaker is likely to default to.

In the abstract, I probably would’ve considered translating it instead as “Yoh” or “Yoe” to make the pronunciation more clear, but since Kou’s name had already been translated in the previous chapter of this series, and You’s name is explicitly said in the story to be a substitute for Kou’s, I can’t blame the localizers here - they were kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place.