Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear - Vol. 11 Ch. 103 - Kuma-san Meets the Baka Rangers

[MangaDex]

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

 

[grrman]

Thanks for the chapter.
It's good to see you lot coming back to keep working on this fun story

 

[ciera]

Thank you for the scanlation

 

[Avres]

Thank you for the scans...

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@Infrequent scans You do know her name is Elearora, right? EleaRora? Ellelaura? EreaLora? EreLola? エレローラ?

Where's the 'N' coming from?

 

[Mafeb]

"Let's save princess Fina from a life of cuddles and pampering!"
"... What do you mean  save?"

 

[SatchelBagman]

Thank you for the scans...

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@Infrequent scans You do know her name is Elearora, right? EleaRora? Ellelaura? EreaLora? EreLola? エレローラ?

Where's the 'N' coming from?

I'm not with the team and haven't seen the raw but I feel it important to make it known that I found someone on one of the novel translation sites asking the exact opposite question and saying the raws say エレノーラ, which is also how it's rendered on the Wikipedia page.

 

[Avres]

I'm not with the team and haven't seen the raw but I feel it important to make it known that I found someone on one of the novel translation sites asking the exact opposite question and saying the raws say エレノーラ, which is also how it's rendered on the Wikipedia page.

I don't know about the wikipedia page, but the raws on syosetu has always been エレローラ as far as I know. From the looks of it, it's always just been a mistranslation that nobody's ever corrected.

Understandable, Eleanora is a natural name in english. Elearora is a natural name in engrish.

Edit: Just went to check the raw too...

https://rawkuma.net/manga/kuma-kuma-kuma-bear/chapter-103.31765/

Top right box, right side, starting from the third character down, エレローラ. Had to double check because I was curious about the spanish version, and they also use Eleanora.

 

[Junpaku]

"I'm normal so I probably stick out even more," says the c-rank adventurer in the bear kigurumi.

 

[SatchelBagman]

I don't know about the wikipedia page, but the raws on syosetu has always been エレローラ as far as I know. From the looks of it, it's always just been a mistranslation that nobody's ever corrected.

Understandable, Eleanora is a natural name in english. Elearora is a natural name in engrish.

Edit: Just went to check the raw too...

https://rawkuma.net/manga/kuma-kuma-kuma-bear/chapter-103.31765/

Top right box, right side, starting from the third character down, エレローラ. Had to double check because I was curious about the spanish version, and they also use Eleanora.

To compound the documentation of confusion, I went back and re-watched the episode of the anime where the character is first introduced (Season 1 Episode 7, about halfway through), and she clearly says エレローラ in the audio there as well.

So either there's some kind of weird Mandela Effect going on, a localization decision was made that's propagated very unevenly, or a whole bunch of people are really attached to Eleanora and/or don't want to grapple with the question of how a name with that many l/rs is meant to be transliterated out of Japanese.

It's a funny old world, at least, that's for sure.

 

[Baddtraxx]

dejavu

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Yaiova]

Thank you for the scans...

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@Infrequent scans You do know her name is Elearora, right? EleaRora? Ellelaura? EreaLora? EreLola? エレローラ?

Where's the 'N' coming from?

Howdy, part of the team here (Night the typesetter xd), I asked around and turns out we always have been using Eleanora, because its a common name, unlike Elearoa, Ellelaura, Erealora...you get the point. I believe we have slightly changed other names from their literal spelling pronounciation, (dont quote me on this) like Noa to Noah, and just things like that.
It's fitting with the whole european setting of the story, and in my opinion, for an english translation it makes sense to use names english readers would have an easier time reading/pronouncing.

Thank you for reading! And I appreciate you pointing this out because I didn't know, and it's interesting.

 

[CountryMage]

I believe we have slightly changed other names from their literal spelling pronounciation, (dont quote me on this) like Noa to Noah, and just things like that.

Her nickname is Noa, but her whole name is Noire though?

 

[CypherHoof]

Howdy, part of the team here (Night the typesetter xd), I asked around and turns out we always have been using Eleanora, because its a common name, unlike Elearoa, Ellelaura, Erealora...you get the point. I believe we have slightly changed other names from their literal spelling pronounciation, (dont quote me on this) like Noa to Noah, and just things like that.
It's fitting with the whole european setting of the story, and in my opinion, for an english translation it makes sense to use names english readers would have an easier time reading/pronouncing.

Thank you for reading! And I appreciate you pointing this out because I didn't know, and it's interesting.

Not sure if this helps, but it is consistently "Ellelaura" in the Seven Seas translations of both the Light Novel and the Manga...
There is also the "Land of Wa" thing too

 

[Yaiova]

Her nickname is Noa, but her whole name is Noire though?

i said dont quote me on this bro TT TT