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Fan translation by Ali.
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So yeah, I’ve been translating this game for a while now and this is my conclusion. Also this in an easy accession point to all my translations. Just click the character’s name to see the translations of your chosen character.
A tier
Includes most of the characters, majority of them from Golden Deer’s which is interesting. There is also Dimitri and Dedue who are accurate until the time skip.
B tier
Majority of these characters that speak inkeigo敬語,the most formal way of speech in Japan. Some characters like Flayn and Rhea the translation comes through while characters like Hubert lack a certain edge without the refined speech. Sothis also speaks in an ancient way, referring to Byleth with an old way to say you onushi 御主 and referring to her self with washi 儂 which is an old way to refer to oneself also Hanneman uses it.
C tier
People in this category have small changes made to them.
Claude actually uses sensei 先生 (teacher, instructor) or as is translated to professorjust like everyone else when speaking to Byleth but with a slight change of tone, which is why I see no problem with them changing it to more playful ’’teach’’. Also after time-skip he uses the word kyoudai 兄弟 (sibling, sibling-in-law, mate or a friend) to refer to Byleth. I find it has the same vibes when yakuza can use brotherto refer to their close clan mates, thus I think it’s a reference to Claude’s culture somehow.
Ferdinand actually is more of an aggressor between him and Hubert’s support link. Hubert says he doesn’t mind eating lunch with him and Byleth and Ferdinand is the one making things difficult thus he should stay silent. After time skip Ferdinand doesn’t shout dramatically ‘’no…!’’ when he learns his father is dead, but just says to himself ‘’could it be…?’’
Caspar’s lines are changed when interacting with Petra. During the introduction to the Black Eagles Caspar says something likes to ’’I can take Byleth on bare handed’’, to which Petra asks ‘’Bare handed? You want Professor strip their gloves off?’’ To which Caspar states it was just a metaphor for combat.
Ingrid’s interaction with Sylvain during their C support have been changed.
Edelgard’s changes are subtle are only amplified after time skip. The small changes of her wording make her seem more cold and dismissive than she originally was.
Male Byleth interaction with Sylvain is changed. More could have been changed as I played in English with Japanese voices, but this one stuck up.
Multipletime skip Dimitri’s conversations have been altered. In Japanese he shows much more clear signs of paranoia and seeing things that don’t exist, speaking to Byleth after their first meeting as if they are just one of his hallucinations.
Dedue’s line when sacrificing himself for Dimitri is altered. He says ‘’I will always stay by your side, even with the distance of death separating us.’’ while in the translation he just says how Dimitri will be a good king, which is much more inpersonal.
Balthus and Byleth’s C support is altered. Where Balthus gratefully accepts Byleth’s offer to protect him and Balthus says ‘’Don’t mind me sticking to your side then.’’ in the translation he is made much more casual about it, removing the vulnerability of the conversation.
Miklain’s conversation with Sylvain is changed. This is actually the first time gendered language is used as an insult which made me suspicious.
Death knight’s English translation is much more dramatic than in the original. He is a quiet menacing and speaks rarely which leaves on impression of power.
D tier
The queer context removed gang! Here is supports between Annette and Mercedes,Leonie and Lysithea, and Edelgard and Dorothea.
E tier
These characters change a lot between the original and the translation.
Bernadetta is much more stuttering and less panic talk in the original. Also in her and Felix’s C suppport Felix notes feeling her emit sakki 殺気 (bloodlust) when escaping from him.
Felix is much more caring in Japanese, more blunt and not actually vicious. I’m planning on translating his and Ingrid’s B support which also shows this.
Edelgard’stime skipchanges can be summarized with her support with Hubert. She emotes much more and shows great care for him and actually laughs with him.
So Randolf in the original speaks of doing things for his family while in the English side it’s changed to doing it for honor? Really now? You don’t want to empathize with the enemy English translation? And an NPC. Really?
So Hapi and Yuri,have an altered comments for when Jeralt dies. Yuri also doesn’t call Byleth a friendbutanta あんた a more casual version of anata 貴方 which is usually translated to dear, darling, honey or something close to that.
So she gets a a tier of her own for her altered B support with Cyril. The original support made me disgusted of her and happy there is no A support between them. Click her name if you want to read it, but beware of the problematic elements related to alcohol and hints of grooming.
F tier
So here lay Cyril, Petra andSylvain. The characters that I have most to say about translation vice. So these character’s are completely different between the translation and the original. I can only think of the reason for Cyril and Petra’s change in speech style coming from translator’s internalized racism.
Cyril has no accent and actually speaks very politely, on many occasions using desu/masu です/ ます which is polite speech below keigo but above casual speech. Closest I can refer to how he would speak in English would be Dedue. He also speaks about tolerating his work rather than enjoying it. He also speaks less about Rhea and more about himself as individual, how he is extremely loyal, and how he enjoys when people can depend on him and how Tomas was one of those people that weren’t racist against him and how he feels conflicted with his own feelings and stance of the church, but resolves himself to listening Rhea as he feels in debt to her.
Petra speaks in a very clear Japanese with sometimes a little odd word order and only stumbles in metaphoric speech usually taking it literally. She is a good representation of how learning another language works, and once being told something is a metaphor she asks what it means as she will later start using said phrases. Instead in the translation she speaks like illiterate which is kind of reminiscence how Gonta from Danganronpa V3 was translated.
(Somehow these characters are always people of color, I sure wonder why~)
Here is translated Petra and Cyril’s C support for evidence.
And then there is Sylvain… What have they done to you my boy. Translation reduces him to comic relief while he has a lot of trauma with the abuse from Miklain, to a possible sexual assault or some other trauma concerning a lot of women, as he speaks of women as ants who surround him or how he fears and hates them. All this tells that his flirty demeanor is but a defense mechanism and a self-destructive one at that. It reflects real life of how it’s common for those sexually abused to become hypersexual as a result to try to cope with their trauma’s lack of consent, ( but this is just how interpret it.) All these conversations of Sylvain’s trauma are cut and can be found translated by me in Sylvain and Mercedes support chain.
It looks like the fix works with no adverse effects, so I’m updating the patch to version 0.91. This patch will have no effect if you are playing on PPSSPP, and the exact same effect as the 6 KB hotfix previously provided if you are on PSP/Vita, so you don’t need to redownload the whole thing. But I want to make sure the most up-to-date file is always readily available.
Jetko Manga: Page 64
A big cheers goes to the lovely hellojulia, who cleaned up the scans for us!
Translation by Jin Fenghuang with some very appreciated help with the traditional characters from 阿窗!
The original scan can be found: HERE
And the artists’ blog: HERE
Jetko Manga: Page 63
A big cheers goes to the lovely hellojulia, who cleaned up the scans for us!
Translation by Jin Fenghuang with some very appreciated help with the traditional characters from 阿窗!
The original scan can be found: HERE
And the artists’ blog: HERE
Jetko Manga: Page 62
A big cheers goes to the lovely hellojulia, who cleaned up the scans for us!
Translation by Jin Fenghuang with some very appreciated help with the traditional characters from 阿窗!
The original scan can be found: HERE
And the artists’ blog: HERE
So, thanks to @delicate-transformation, I have a fan translation (from mangaowls.com) of the last comic from Anthology (the first one), and it was done by Yana-san, just like she did “With Father” at the end of the second anthology.
Like “With Father”, “Haunted Graveyard” makes references to the other comics in the book. This time, it’s about a bunch of characters who weren’t included (Anthology 2 was missing Diedrich until “With Father”, which is something mentioned in “With Father”).
So, here ya go:
It’s interesting that we now usually associate Undertaker with reanimating corpses, but in this case Yana-san makes un-included characters act like zombies, and Undertaker wants to send them away.
Since im so bored, im gonna up my own translation.
Hasegawa Taizou aka Madao’s seiyuu did the narration.
As informed before, this new anime project aired one week (January 15th) after the movie premiere (January 8th). The plot will be taken place right before the battle that adapted in the movie. Simply, this taken place right after the ending of the Silver Soul arc that ended 2 years ago. There are 2 arcs for this anime, the Yorozuya arc, aired on January 15th and the Shinsengumi arc, aired on January 20th.
