If you like Rhapsody and know Japanese

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

THEN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS!



Please? ;_;

[Del Stimpson]

Someone please translate it please!

You get a real hug if you do.

[Del Stimpson]

When you come and get it or when ever I'm in Fairfax, Virginia. which ever comes first. If you have anime conventions up there then in a couple of years, after I'm out of high school and have a car.

Also thank you, I've wanted to know what that said for some time now. I'm also surprised how close to Crea="Claire" your translation was. I've seen people translate it as Cloud before thus I'm pleased to say that you translate things better on the spot then a lot of people I've ever dealt with.

And really I mean it, I'll get you that hug somehow.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

I think Claire > Crea.

Thankee, Wyrdy. Dunno how I missed this.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

This is why I like me some Wyrdy. =]

[Del Stimpson]

Well that's not her full name. Her full name is Createur, Createur Rosenqueen. That is what I've always seen it translated as. Being a Marl Kingdom game it was likely a play-on or respelling of a something.

Example: Father Salade= Father Salad
From La Pucelle Tactics

[Del Stimpson]

Would someone please translate this for me?
I would ask a certain someone but that someone says that they're not translating things for anyone any more.

[Del Stimpson]

Thank you, a friend and I were wondering about this one.

[Musa-Revived]

wyrdwad said:

This one's actually surprisingly difficult to translate, for a variety of reasons (one being the scribbly shorthand text, and you should be able to GUESS the other by the time you're done reading...). I'd have to sit down and really work on it to get that last panel fully translated. But here's the general gist of it:

Panel one: "We present to you Cornet, set out on a journey to find some means of restoring the prince, who was turned to stone by Marjoly."
(Caption on right: "The prince (actually not)")
(Caption on left: Can't read, I'm afraid, due to the low resolution of the image and the extremely scribbly text.)

Panel two: "By the way... where are we?"
"Cornet! Are you saying you've just been walking, without paying attention to where you were going?"

Panel three: 'Majin wa hi-majin' ("Demons/occultists have a lot of free time." - bad pun)
(Can't read smaller bubble very clearly, but it looks like it just says "Hey")

Panel four:
First bubble: 'Se ga tottemo takai' (Written entirely in hiragana, so its meaning is unclear, but I'm at least fairly certain that it's supposed to be a bad pun on the phrase "sei ga takai" - which means you're tall - and the notion that the world, which can be written as 'se', is vast.)
Second bubble: Looks like 'taitoumiushi', but I have no idea what this means. Obviously a bad pun of some sort, though.
Third bubble: Can't even fully make this one out due to the lousy handwriting. Looks like 'namuenichiha'.
Fourth bubble: 'Makimono wa omae wo sukurouru' (bad pun on the word 'makimono', which means 'scroll', and the Japanese phonetic pronunciation of the word 'scroll', which KINDA SORTA sounds like 'sukueru', or 'to be able to save/rescue' - so "The scroll can save you!")
Reaction: "... The Land of Bad Puns?! (UNGH...)"

Translating bad Japanese puns is probably the single most annoying thing you can possibly do. Especially when they're written in a "stylized" (read: awful) font.

But yeah... basically, it's a rather un-funny 4-panel comic about bad puns.

-Tom

I have not played nor do I know anything about Rhapsody but here's some additions to the translations from me:

Panel One:
Caption on Left: I can only catch the "... wo tsukau no ja" at the back which means that "something" was being used (to turn the prince to stone?) or it's a comment to tell the princess to use something.

Panel Three:
That smaller "bubble" is not a bubble but a drawing of a person. If you see Panel four, it's the yellow guy.
So that means in Panel three, while the princess and the fairy were wondering where they were, they heard the yellow guy say "Majin wa himajin". And then they turned around which leads to Panel four.

Panel Four:
First bubble: "Se ga tottemo takai" does mean "you are very tall" but it's more of a pun of "Sega tottemo takai" which means "Sega is very expensive". I'm guessing whoever made Rhapsody is not from Sega?

Second bubble: "Tai to Umiushi" which most likely means "Sea Bream and Sea Slug". Also the word "Tai" is on the little mountain in the background but this "Tai" is not the same "Tai" as Sea Bream. So it's very likely a very bad pun on the word "Tai" on the mountain.

Third bubble: "Namu konnichiwa"... err which probably means "Namu good day to you"... which is probably a pun to "Buddha amitabha"... err I suppose the "tai" mountain and the torii gate in the background has some connection to buddhism and shinto... thus the really weird puns...


Edit: Ok, after some reflection and thinking, the puns actually have deeper meanings. Because after the sega pun, I realized the rest are also puns of other gaming companies.

"Tai to Umiushi" is a reference to "Taito Umiushi". Taito is a game company.

"Namu konnichiwa" can be "Namuko..nichiwa" where "Namuko" is Namco, another game company.

After reading up, Rhapsody is made by Atlus (one of the better game makers IMO)... so go figure.

[Musa-Revived]

Ah i see. Hehe, well I'm more of a PC gamer than a console gamer so I'm not that well informed. Although I do have this friend who's a hardcore console gamer. So I got to hear about some of those game companies through him.

My Japanese isn't that great either, but I got this knack of putting in spaces in japanese sentences (especially when it's just lines of hiragana/katakana) to recognise the nouns from the prepositions and verbs/etc. So mostly it's through some trial and error before I make sense of the sentences. It also helps when you got Jim Breen at hand.

[Musa-Revived]

Hehe, well it will grow on to you after a while. I'm not proud of it but this is after years of playing *cough* bishoujo games *cough* and buying Japanese manga and watching tons of Japanese anime. Knowing some chinese helps too especially when it comes to Kanji. Having not much of a life helps too

[Musa-Revived]

Well, if you really want to improve some, I suggest you buy some Japanese manga to start off with. Not cheap but you can always start with something simple like Azumanga and it's best if there are furigana printed besides the Kanji. Some manga companies do not print furigana and those are hard to read.

I don't know how you're going to get you hands on some, but I'm sure you can find some way if you really try.

I'm saying this because I support legal buying and I do not endorse other illegal means of getting manga (wink).