Tantei Reijou Julia Moriarty ~Seibetsu mo Mibun mo Kawarimashita ga, Tenseisaki demo Tanteigyou Saikai Shimasu~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - The Detective Lady a…

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[BreadBunny]

I'm quite liking the story so it's a real shame the translation is just not up to snuff. tons and tons of mistakes all around as if no one is actually reading the text before placing it in whatever next speech bubble they can find.

 

[ZeroNihilum]

"I punched the colonel" says the detective about someone hitting another with a vase lmao

 

[erellisae]

Thanks for the translation - the majority of the grammar and wording is generally not bad but as noted above, you've really gotta watch for your subjects, especially if you're going to translate a mystery novel. Just firing some examples from the major scenes:

16.1 - 'Before 11pm, I arrived at the house and guided him to the study' -> 'Just before 11, he arrived at the house and I guided him to the study' - She's obviously not the one arriving. It's late, so 'just before 11' emphasizes that it's late without being ambiguous.
16.4 - 'What is the content of your conversation' -> 'What was the content of their conversation?' - Obvious from context, especially given:
17.1 - 'Since they haven't entered the study' -> 'Since I didn't enter the study' - the two men clearly entered the study! She must be talking about herself.
18.1 - 'Now then, next... it's my daughter, Catherine' -> 'Now then, next... I'd like to speak to your daughter Catherine' - I don't think the 16-year-old female detective has a daughter.
18.4 - 'I went to my usual room' -> 'I went to my room as usual' - This is important because it means she regularly retreats to her room -> there's regularly DV happening (also 18.5 should ideally be 'As usual?' because she's echoing what Catherine is saying and it scans better)
20.1 - 'Unlike my husband, that person goes straight home' - 'Unlike [Mary's] husband [of the house], that person goes straight home' - I doubt the maid is married to the dead guy.

Edit: given that Edna's husband does return late in the story, this could be taken to be her husband. However, right after this is when she starts ranting about the dead guy and his habits and debts, so I'm pretty sure this is meant to be Mary's husband (the dead guy) she's talking about

25.2 - 'Aren't you just repeating what you heard from my sister and the maid?' 'Yes, I am' -> 'Surely you've heard this from my sister and the maid?' 'Yes, I have' - MC wasn't the one talking.
40.1 - 'I punched the colonel' -> 'you attacked the colonel' - MC is the one giving her deposition
41.5 - 'An even more intense violence than usual began' -> super literal. 'his temper overflowed more violently than ever'.
43.1 - 'But it seems there is evidence, doesn't it' -> 'But is there any evidence of this?' - he's clearly trying to argue
50.2 - 'The maid Edna muttered that it was 'rust from her own body' -> 'The maid Edna muttered that 'you reap what you sow'. You can't translate 身から出た錆 that literally.

I went back and skimmed the first chapter and you did good there as far as I can tell, but it kinda stands out here where the text is fine but doesn't really relate to what's going on.

Also, lmao at 'check the river for the dumped stolen goods', taken straight from a Holmes case

 

[Banana_Splits]

i really feel like the Brother that killed the husband of his sister did it to protect her so i don't feel like he should be getting too harsh of a sentence. and looks like the buttler got enough evidence to confront his "master" will be interesting to see how it goes in the next chapter

 

[Miserys_End]

i really feel like the Brother that killed the husband of his sister did it to protect her so i don't feel like he should be getting too harsh of a sentence. and looks like the buttler got enough evidence to confront his "master" will be interesting to see how it goes in the next chapter

While I sympathize with the wife and brother, but their crime isn't really killing the husband, but hiding the husband's abuse, assault/attempted murder of the wife, and covering up his justified death as burglary gone wrong.

If they had told the truth there might have been some minor consequences and a scandal after an investigation. But because they chose to try to hide evidence and mislead the investors, it became a much more serious crime.

 

[xironi]

Girl who was in a terrible accident and almost died is behaving completely differently?
Definitely an imposter, you better threaten to kill her.

 

[Humumumumu]

Thanks for the translation - the majority of the grammar and wording is generally not bad but as noted above, you've really gotta watch for your subjects, especially if you're going to translate a mystery novel. Just firing some examples from the major scenes:

16.1 - 'Before 11pm, I arrived at the house and guided him to the study' -> 'Just before 11, he arrived at the house and I guided him to the study' - She's obviously not the one arriving. It's late, so 'just before 11' emphasizes that it's late without being ambiguous.
16.4 - 'What is the content of your conversation' -> 'What was the content of their conversation?' - Obvious from context, especially given:
17.1 - 'Since they haven't entered the study' -> 'Since I didn't enter the study' - the two men clearly entered the study! She must be talking about herself.
18.1 - 'Now then, next... it's my daughter, Catherine' -> 'Now then, next... I'd like to speak to your daughter Catherine' - I don't think the 16-year-old female detective has a daughter.
18.4 - 'I went to my usual room' -> 'I went to my room as usual' - This is important because it means she regularly retreats to her room -> there's regularly DV happening (also 18.5 should ideally be 'As usual?' because she's echoing what Catherine is saying and it scans better)
20.1 - 'Unlike my husband, that person goes straight home' - 'Unlike [Mary's] husband [of the house], that person goes straight home' - I doubt the maid is married to the dead guy.

Edit: given that Edna's husband does return late in the story, this could be taken to be her husband. However, right after this is when she starts ranting about the dead guy and his habits and debts, so I'm pretty sure this is meant to be Mary's husband (the dead guy) she's talking about

25.2 - 'Aren't you just repeating what you heard from my sister and the maid?' 'Yes, I am' -> 'Surely you've heard this from my sister and the maid?' 'Yes, I have' - MC wasn't the one talking.
40.1 - 'I punched the colonel' -> 'you attacked the colonel' - MC is the one giving her deposition
41.5 - 'An even more intense violence than usual began' -> super literal. 'his temper overflowed more violently than ever'.
43.1 - 'But it seems there is evidence, doesn't it' -> 'But is there any evidence of this?' - he's clearly trying to argue
50.2 - 'The maid Edna muttered that it was 'rust from her own body' -> 'The maid Edna muttered that 'you reap what you sow'. You can't translate 身から出た錆 that literally.

I went back and skimmed the first chapter and you did good there as far as I can tell, but it kinda stands out here where the text is fine but doesn't really relate to what's going on.

Also, lmao at 'check the river for the dumped stolen goods', taken straight from a Holmes case

Holy, this is gold

 

[Shinigamisama]

"But it seems there is evidence..." and "punching" got me confused but I understood it in the end. Maybe it's just me, but Julia seems to be depending more on her powers and not so much on her deduction skills like Conan.

 

[RayREI]

"But it seems there is evidence..." and "punching" got me confused but I understood it in the end. Maybe it's just me, but Julia seems to be depending more on her powers and not so much on her deduction skills like Conan.

Well yeah, that's what tends to happen when the author give MC the ability to see the past as a detective. Even with just fragments of events, it would still give an advantage that you just need to find out how an event could took place, when usually you would have to deduce whether an event even happened in the first place. Even more so if she directly see the culprit like in this case, she wouldn't even need to find the 'Who did it' but just 'How did they do it' which lower the difficulty by a lot.

If regular detectives is solving a solid coloured jigsaw puzzle, she is solving regular jigsaw puzzle by comparing it to the already known edges of the board and piece it together from there using the edges as a reference point.