Here’s a retranslation of the Breakout Yogurca storyline, from Korean to English.
There’s lots of little personality things changed, as always. Alchemist is more expressive, and Yogurt’s a bit more… bratty? Rude and naive? (I’M AMAZING!). That’s pretty fitting considering in every version besides English, he’s referred to as a (multi)millionaire from a rich family, and that’s a pretty common trope for such characters. English puts the “collector” aspect as being more important, and also came up with him being from a “merchant family,” which I don’t see anywhere else. Lilac, well you can’t gather much from the “…” he has in all languages, but it does originally sound like he actually come close to hitting Yogurt instead of just preemptively panicking.
One of the things I think is interesting is that Yogurca is referred to as the birthplace of alchemy, which actually has some neat connections to the real world myths. Alchemy comes from an Arabic word (al-kimiya).It originated from and was popular in the Islamic world from Egypt to India before translated texts hit Europe, particularly the Kitab al-Kimya… maybe that’s what Alchemist was looking for /joke.
Anyway, that’s just some neat little history. You can read a direct comparison between the English and Korean here. You can also check out Yogurt’s localizationandconcept artposts.
