Episode 1406: Mirin Powers Up!
Translator Notes:
I think I’ve commented on this before, but Mirin has a funny vocal tic in that rather than desu (”is”, short for de arimasu), she uses the archaic-sounding de gozaru. Gozaru isn’t used in modern Japanese except in its conjugated form gozaimasu as a more polite form of arimasu (to be), so it isn’t really any different than using old-timey English to make someone sound either ancient or like someone trying to sound ancient.
The English localizers for Granblue Fantasy kinda just threw up their hands on this one and just had English Mirin literally say “gozaru” in her English script rather than trying to give her old-timey-sounding English, or something similar to that. I... have to be honest; I find this a dubious decision on the part of the localizers and feel like there were much better options available, but that’s the precedent that they’ve established, so I’ve followed suit in the interest of having as much as possible a unified voice for the GBF characters.
One final note: catching a blade between your hands is a common Japanese trope, called shirahadori, lit. “taking an unsheathed blade”. It can be found in many forms of Japanese media - for example, in the strategy RPG “Final Fantasy Tactics”, the Samurai class has the ability “Blade Grasp”, which is that game’s translation of shirahadori. It’s... not really something you can do in reality, at least not reliably enough to actually be practical for real-world usage. It’s mostly just a thing used to make someone look cool in media.
