#lang: jp

[the-astralalchemist]

お誕生日おめでとう ~幸太ちゃん！~

happy birthday to kota ibushi!

[the-astralalchemist]

follow up / kanji analysis

[previous post]

alright so i mentioned that bradamante’s use of the word relative in regards to guda. i dug up my dictionary and rusty knowledge from my high school japanese lessons  

i can feel my japanese teacher scolding me about how i should have been practicing my handwriting, sorry sensei ( ; -;)

in summarium, i translated it as “You are Merlin-sama’s relative, is that right? Yes yes! That kind of person has taken care of me before!” (taken care of can also mean help in this context)

in NA, that is “So you’re a relative of Lord Merlin’s, huh? Great! You’re not the first people like that to help me out in a jam!”

answer: i think i am slightly less(...?) confused than i started. 

her use of “ 縁者 ” threw me off. while it does actually translate to relatives/kin personally i was never taught it? she used a kanji ( 縁 ) that has multiple but related meanings; it means “fate” or “destiny” but also “bond or tie (as in a connection)” and “relationship (general)”. 

i started from scratch translating some of brada and guda’s lines before this specific one, hit a bump and just gave up, started over only using this one line. if i hate myself enough, i’ll go back to it 

postscript: i’ve come to the conclusion while writing this that maybe this “relative” thing has something to do with bradamante’s mythos. she’s saying a relative of merlin helped her in the past? i cant do anymore research rn, sweet baby jesus if i have to even look at a french word i will game end myself asdfghjhgf