Oji Tensei ~Akuyaku Reijou no Kareinaru Seikatsu~ - Vol. 2 Ch. 11

[MangaDex]

 

[Kensou]

It's a matter of personal taste, of course, but I prefer the use of the original honorifics when possible. It's one area where nuance is lost otherwise.

Thanks for bringing this back.

 

[GreenDude1]

It's not easy to lose weight but it's not like it's difficult to do it it just requires a certain amount of willpower to stick to it. You need to make an effort to eat a larger variety of foods a mistake a lot of people make is try to cut back on what foods they eat but that will just make you dislike what you're doing more likely to quits when instead focus on having a bigger variety. It's fine to have a hamburger just make sure that every once in awhile you eat a salad as well. Second is to just make sure you move around a lot it doesn't have to be a huge amount but just move around do like 20 push-ups and 20 sit ups and 20 squats and then walk for half an hour and you'll be good. It's healthy to have an elevated heart rate for 30 minutes a day. So just to go to the gym and get on a rowing machine and just row slowly for half an hour.

 

[randalthor20001]

Thank you for the excellent translation. Your translating the sound effects, font choices, and centering of text, are all high quality. Please use onee-sama and other honorifics. There really isn't an English equivalent and meaning is lost without it. The vast majority of people reading manga and watching anime, are already familiar with honorifics. And if you're worried about the few people not familiar with them, you can leave a note explaining it.

Poor Chloe. All of the male attention she's getting, isn't what she thinks it is. They're just interested in job networking. She finds these moments of happiness where she can be the center of attention, only for her to be betrayed by her body. The clerk even helped her pick a larger sized outfit, and the buttons still came off again. (Seeing it hit Wakabayashi's forehead and shatter his wine glass was hilarious). Either the clerk didn't give her the right sized shirt, or she has some sort of curse on her that makes embarrassing things more likely to happen.

"When I think about it, this body is heavy and has quite the stench but ..." "It might be easier to live in this world." No Chloe. I don't want you to accept living the rest of your life in this body. You should make the best of it you can for now, by exercising and eating better to lose weight. And figure out how to solve your body odor problem. But you should not give up on finding a way to become a young woman again. Above all else, you are 50 years old. You've been robbed of your youth and all of those years. And you've been robbed of being a woman. Get it back. Beat up the angel. Do whatever you need to get it back.

Chloe is clearly more comfortable being a woman. She sees herself as a beautiful young woman in her mind. When she bought men's clothing, she referred to it as a "dress." At the party, she tried to do a curtsey; which is the feminine equivalent of a bow. When she says she's says that "it might be easier to live in this world," I guessing that she's thinking more in terms of her status. She no longer has the pressure of being nobility and all of the responsibilities and politics that came with it.

It feels like we're getting close to finding the identities of multiple reincarnates from Chloe's world. Wakabayashi appears to be Alice. I'm curious to find out if Alice was actually evil and betrayed Chloe in the past. And this new Alice (as Wakabayashi) is trying to make amends for the way she treated Chloe in her old life. Or, if Alice never tried to harm Chloe, and always liked her. Maybe the guy chose Alice instead, of Chloe, but it was just a personal choice. No foul play involved.

And now we're getting to meet the person who came up with the idea of a game featuring a character who seems exactly like how Chloe looked. We may have 2 reincarnates here, besides Chloe. Maybe this guy was Chloe's younger sister. Or someone that looked up to and admired Chloe. Since he's calling her "Onee-sama." Or maybe this new guy, is actually Alice. But then that still leaves the mystery of who Wakabayashi is.

No spoilers please.

 

[JustALolicon69]

DAMN

 

[Ceiye]

Not really much of a spoiler who this is once you look at the covers on the Art tab lol. I'm excited, they seem fun

I think go with whatever is easier for you guys, but to play devil's advocate, I've seen established translators for non-weeb media argue that if characters are from a setting that would typically not speak Japanese (eg Vaguely European), then the Japanese honorifics are more like the localization of the their intent to begin with by the author

 

[zeronatsume]

old guy even got stars in his eyes, that's kind of cute

 

[Rafalga]

So she is the heroine that "stole" the prince in her own timeline? She was executed but heroine was a fan of her? Hope there is a proper explanation for it.

 

[randalthor20001]

I think go with whatever is easier for you guys, but to play devil's advocate, I've seen established translators for non-weeb media argue that if characters are from a setting that would typically not speak Japanese (eg Vaguely European), then the Japanese honorifics are more like the localization of the their intent to begin with by the author

My comment is directed at the "established translators for non-weeb media," and not towards you. This seems like a rather arrogant and condescending attitude. The translator is saying they know better than the original author. Japanese authors will occasionally pepper in an English word or two in their works. If the author wanted to use Lady, Lord, Mr., Mrs, etc., then they would do so. When we see a vaguely European setting in a manga, it's often not 100% purely European. Japanese styles, morality, and customs often work their way into the setting in subtle and not so subtle ways. To me, that's part of the appeal. It's a Japanese author's interpretation of a foreign culture. If the author uses honorifics, they are not localizing anything. They are the original creator of a unique blend of multiple cultures.

 

[yoshiii]

Thanks for updating!

 

[Ceiye]

My comment is directed at the "established translators for non-weeb media," and not towards you. This seems like a rather arrogant and condescending attitude. The translator is saying they know better than the original author. Japanese authors will occasionally pepper in an English word or two in their works. If the author wanted to use Lady, Lord, Mr., Mrs, etc., then they would do so. When we see a vaguely European setting in a manga, it's often not 100% purely European. Japanese styles, morality, and customs often work their way into the setting in subtle and not so subtle ways. To me, that's part of the appeal. It's a Japanese author's interpretation of a foreign culture. If the author uses honorifics, they are not localizing anything. They are the original creator of a unique blend of multiple cultures.

Yeah I figure they're mostly translating non-isekai-lite fantasies anyways. Like real world settings. I think one of the examples I was reading this in was how American siblings don't often call each other like Big Sister or Little Sister, but when a Japanese author writes American siblings, they will add something like John-oniichan. Or teachers being suffixed with -sensei. The extra information in these honorifics are built in to the language and sound very awkward in Japanese without them. (Incidentally the amount of information that is in the connotations and honorifics of words is why it's very difficult to translate first person pronouns. You can imply hidden faced character is a man with an ego by having them use ore, but in English you'd have to be more creative with their translated dialogue if you wanted the same implication to get across) But when translating to English, having the American siblings just call each other by their first name and calling the teacher Mister John instead of John-sensei or Teacher John is much more fluid to the reader

Like, this isn't exclusive to Japanese to English translations. They do the same sort of title localization the other way around. And for all sorts of non-Japanese-English languages. People all have their own different ways of doing things and there's no one correct way. Localization is more an art than a strict guideline

EDIT: I have been trying to find where I read this piece cause they had a better argument and examples than I could remember off the top of my head and literally it might be sunken in the sea of anime translation discourse. If anyone wants to find it on their own, I also vaguely recall them using an example from a text by a Peruvian (maybe? Could be mixing it up with someone else)-Japanese author who wrote in both languages. There was also another example about how when translating the other way around how if the ages of siblings are ambiguous, they could use kyoudai when introducing them as siblings, but... something else when they have to use an honorific suffix. I literally do not remember anymore. Idk I'm getting too invested in finding this for someone who doesn't have a strong opinion what way

 

[pink_rabbit]

old man yaoi??????

 

[DumFck]

chloe, cover your chest, it has no 'suggestive' tag, girl

 

[reving]

Yaoi incoming?