#illym translation

[illym]

Impeccable Kys in this comic.

Translation assistance: @magicalgirlfia

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Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

Specific assistance:

@.magicalgirlfia: Helped me understand what Ky was saying in the last panel.

To be succinct, Ky said [ exactly translated ] "It has a skull and crossbones on it, but...". The 'but' implied that Ky was actually considering taking the medicine to sleep out of some desperation, but I felt it worth to double check if that was the intended meaning. Fia shared an excellent article about the specific phrase he used and its application in Japanese.

Very excellent Kys here. And fun Fausts, of course.

[illym]

Even Faust wasn't expecting her.

Translation assistance: @magicalgirlfia

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If you understand Japanese and retranslate this, get in touch with me and I'll update the comic.

Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

Specific assistance:

@.magicalgirlfia: Translated Ky's dialogue in panel 3, advised on what Jam was saying in Panel 4.

This one had a fair bit of interesting dialogue in it. Faust's dialogue in panel 3 [ あなたの足の水虫ですよ ] was translated by Deepl as simply [ It's athlete's foot. ]. However, jpdb.io said that the first few characters [ あなた ] was usually [ trad. polite in ref. to someone of equal or lower status, now oft. regarded as rude or distant ]. I thought adding in [ Why, sir ] would fit that same emotion in English.

Ky's dialogue in panel 2 [ いったいなんのことですか ] was translated by Deepl as [ What are you talking about? ]. jpdb.io said that the question was far more emphatic, so I added a bit of strength to the way he said it.

Another impeccable comic by this artist. Great Jams, great Kys, great Bridgets, great Robo Kys... All I need is for them to draw Justice and I'll be happy as can be.

...I wish Justice showed up in any of these...

[illym]

Hi, hello, if you like reading about localization choices be sure to check below the cut because I Had Fun Here (not being sarcastic. It was enjoyable learning about vinegar in Japan).

Translation Assistance: @masked-and-doomed + @solradguy

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Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

Specific Assistance:

@.masked-and-doomed: transcribed what I couldn't pick up.

@.solradguy: Verified the translation of what the npc was saying in panel 4, offered a line for it.

Fun fact: The Japanese department of a college all got together to work on this one.

I hated redrawing the back of Ky's head. I'm glad I was able to hide most of it behind the text (lol).

Anyway, let's get on with the localization (and process) discussion!

In the original text of this comic, Ky was drinking vinegar.

"But Illym," you ask, face twisted in confusion, "Huh? Who drinks vinegar as a drink for fun? Is the joke that being compared to Robo-Ky made him go mad and believe that vinegar is delicious? Did you change the joke? Why are you writing me to be so verbose?"

I'm a very verbose person. To answer the rest of your questions, here's what DeepL gave me when I put the transcript in.

[

npc:

Captain… it's only the body that gets soft from drinking vinegar.

ky:

I… This is for your health!

npc:

If you drink it without diluting it, you'll get a stomach ache.

]

At first, I assumed that DeepL has misinterpreted some other drink as vinegar, such as cider, sake, or general alcohol. In this example, even, it translated Ky as saying "For your health" when within context he should obviously be saying "For my health".

I went to [ https://jpdb.io/ ] to check the line. Lo and behold, it still translated as vinegar. Hm. By this point, I'm fairly sure it's a cultural thing that I'll have to localize, but I try to be thorough in these things as, again, I don't understand the language and rely on machine translation. I search up vinegar in English in jpdb and find the Japanese character there immediately. So it's obviously the same word, not a messy translation.

My next course of action is to look up "drinking vinegar japan".

To summarize, according to the articles/blog posts I read, the process of making vinegar is just adding an extra step to the process of making sake. After that, if it's to be drinking vinegar, it's blended with sweeteners such as honey or fruit.

It's an extremely old drink in Japan, and it's seen as a health drink there (along with, I assume, being pretty tasty). You should go read up on it yourself.

But in the western world, drinking vinegar is... Not a big thing. While I could leave it as is and just write a translators note explaining the drink, I decided that given that Ky is French and Japan has been exploded for ~100 years, it would be more lore accurate to have him drink something else. If it was Anji or Baiken, I would have left it.

Also, it's more enjoyable and easier to understand to make it ambiguously alcohol instead of requiring a 4 paragraph explanation.

So to localize, I removed mention of vinegar and made the joke into Ky drinking too much alcohol. The NPC's worries apply to alcohol as well as drinking vinegar (drinking it makes you soft, it affects your body poorly, drinking too much is Seen as bad for your health) so it made for the smoothest change.

As I write this, I'm debating whether to add a translators note between panels saying that the bottle reads 'vinegar'... It'll get people curious, at least!

Original translation of the comic below.

[illym]

I really wish I lived in the world where Ky constantly makes cunty little comments at Sol. I'm a bit obsessed.

Translation assistance: @masked-and-doomed

If you understand Japanese and retranslate this, get in contact with me and I'll update the translation.

Cleaned and original under the cut.

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In the GGXX opening, Sol wears a ragged cloak. I'll link a video below.

Specific assistance:

@.masked-and-doomed: They transcribed so much of this comic man. The font is wacky and there's way too much handwriting. But a surprising amount of handwritten text was still able to be picked up... Honestly I've transcribed like 6 comics in the last couple days so it's all blended together.

This character was irritating to pick up. I complained about it to my friends, and one of them came out of nowhere with their Mandarin experience and got it down. It was very cool.

I really enjoy this artist, honestly. They've had a lot of hits and I tend to give them a bit more of a chance when picking comics to translate.

QUICK CONTEXT:

[illym]

This artist has such a charming artstyle but they're allergic to recognizable speech bubbles.

Translation assistance: @solradguy

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Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

Specific assistances:

@.solradguy: Identified who was talking in panels 2 and 3.

Japanese is a very vague language at times. [ explain further if I feel like it ].

Nearly had an issue here where I didn't check the transcription against the comic closely enough and ended up with [ 窓 ] [ window ] instead of [ 恋 ] [ romantic partner ]. As you can imagine, I was deeply confused when Ky asked [ Are you sure it's the window guy? ]. I was wondering if window guy was some sort of slang in Japan when I finally rechecked the transcript and realized my error.

What did we learn here today? If something seems strange it's probably a mistake. I don't blame myself too much for it, though, because those characters look immensely similar. Since I caught it before there was any damage, it's all good.

Axl's last line from DeepL was [ We haven't seen each other much since we were together. We dated once every six months or so. ], but I changed it because I felt that this reflected his personality better and just made sense in English.

This comic is really funny after XRD showing just how close Axl and Megumi were.

[illym]

【考察】

『暇な夜にポーカーをしているキャラ。勝者は誰ですか…？』 というお題をいただいて思い出したことなのですが ボナステの没シナリオで みんなでカードゲームをするシーンを入れたいなと思い スチルだけ描いていたやつを供養… あとノエル君 こういうことしそうだから

[ translated with DeepL. ] [ localized by me. ] [ DeepLで翻訳 ] [ ローカライズ ]

"The cast playing poker on a leisurely night. Who is the winner…?"

I was reminded of this concept when I received a question about it.

I wanted to include a scene where everyone is playing cards in the Bonaste scenario.

I was thinking of putting in a card game scene with everyone…

—

I don't think Noel would win because he would do this...

—

【How I Think It Would Go.】

The cast playing poker on a leisurely night. Who is the winner...? This is how I think it would go.

(This is just my interpretation, so please feel free to ignore it if you think "No, XX wouldn't be like that!")

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First of all, here's how I imagine each character playing the card game.

Claire: She's a very weak player, probably the weakest of the cast. But sometimes a miracle may occur and she wins in an extraordinary way. It would be interesting.

Ashe: He's good at strategy, he's a good wordsmith, and he'll use every trick in the book to get to first place. In the end, he'll lose because of some terrible oversight.

Wilardo: He's the kind of guy who never comes in last place. He always seems to be at the top of his game.

Sirius: He's good at coming up with strategies and remembering the cards on the table, so he should do well. However, in games that require luck, he seems to have bad luck.

Noel: He cares more about everyone having fun than winning.

I'm not sure if I'm right or not.

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This is completely my interpretation, but I think that Ashe would be in first place until the end. If things go normally, Wilardo would win, and if a miracle happens, Claire would win...? I'm really not sure.

[ t/n note: I'm pretty sure this text is the original question IZ was sent that reminded her of the idea. ]

[illym]

IZ’s Gallery

この件に関してよく突っ込みを頂くので まぁ、確かにこの人が気にしない訳がないよね？？ （幕間にきっとこういうことがあったということにしておこう……）

Translating a small post by Iz.

[ translated with DeepL. ] [ localized by me. ] [ DeepLで翻訳 ] [ ローカライズ ]

[ A photo of Sirius, enraged. The text reads: ]

Huh? Why is the window broken? ....What? There was an emergency? I don't know anything about that.

Why are you so quick to get barbaric ideas like that, you idiot?! Your explanation is unbelievable!

[ The text within the Tumblr post reads: ]

I'm often asked about this.

Well, surely there's no reason for Sirius not to care, right?

(Let's just say that this is surely what happened during a break in the game...)

[illym]

Two idiots walk into a bar. The third laughs at them before proceeding to walk into it as well.

Translation assistance: @yomotsu-hirasaka + anonymous

Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

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Explaining the joke:

In Chipp's story path 3 in GG:XX, he gets brainwashed by Robo-Ky (yes, Robo-Ky has brainwashing / mind control abilities in GG:XX. It's played fairly seriously, but I find it funny). This is in order to use his abilities to accomplish the PWAB's agenda— capturing Japanese people.

In the game, Chipp successfully stabs Anji. Anji realizes what's going on and proclaims that he'll bring Chipp back to his senses (which he does not). The joke is that here, Anji is utterly oblivious to what Chipp was trying to do, assuming that Chipp's just trying to help him out.

Specific assistances:

@.yomotsu-hirasaka: Translating Robo-Ky's dialogue into regular text. Checked various small things for accurate transcribing.

Anonymous: Checked various small things for accurate transcribing.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this was awful and the entire reason it was awful is because I hold myself to an extremely high standard...

I noticed that the dialogue was similar to the dialogue between Chipp and Anji at the beginning of their meeting in Chipp's path 3. So in order to get a more accurate translation, I went to check a recording of of the dialogue on Youtube. However, it was just too different in tone and feeling for me to feel comfortable just using it without seeing the transcript.

So I said to myself, 'Let's go open up XX #RELOAD and change the language to Japanese; shouldn't take more than an hour all together'.

It turns out you can't change the language of XX #RELOAD. So I went to access XX #SLASH (because, well, may as well use the Japanese-only game if I'm going to be viewing the Japanese dialogue). It takes a while to access. I open it up, and check training mode quickly to make sure it's the correct version. It's the first iteration of XX. Not the third.

'Huh. Dang.' I say to myself, and proceed to actually access #SLASH.

It turns out #SLASH doesn't have a story mode.

I access XX again, utterly done with all of this, and then realize with dawning horror that I'll need to beat Ky's story path 2 in order to access Chipp's story path 3. Because the writers of XX really admired hedge mazes.

And then I remembered that the Guilty Gear Wiki has the original Japanese transcript along with having the English transcript.

And they had Chipp's full transcript.

It was... An exhausting and tumultuous use of 4 hours. But at least I can access Guilty Gear X Plus, now....? Like I've been wanting....?

Ugh.

Funny comic.

I've been rechecking some translations because I realized I was doing something incorrectly and I honestly forget how much I have to adjust these to make sense in English. More power to me, woohoo.... (<- exhausted...)