Futari nara Doko e demo - Vol. 1 Ch. 1.1 - First time in Oarai

[HYBRID_BEING]

All these arguments are missing the real question - why does she call herself Karen Romanov if she's a girl? Shouldn't it be Karen Romanova?

A common mistake with (most?) Slavic surnames and patronymics, heh. Also, Karen is quite unusual for a female name in Russia (male name Kare’n (of Armenian origin) is somewhat common, though, lol), Karina would've been more fitting.

Haha! Yeah, either the translator mistranslated the original manga, or the mangaka didn't understand the gendering of surnames in Russian.

(The Russian immigrants whom I know maintain that gendering.)

IIRC, on group's Discord it was said that they do not alter non-Japanese lines.

The funniest part of the chapter was that on the stairs she said not "strashno" - [I'm] scared, but "strasnyi" - [He's] scary. It got me confused for a minute lmao

Technically, she could be referring to "descent" ("strashniy spusk"), but, yeah, just an adverb "strashno" (literally, "scary"), would've been better.

 

[DeaObliDex]

Long lost romanov family member🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

 

[totaledraptor13]

Those ears tho...

 

[sverhnovyi]

Karen Romanov? That's the funniest name i've seen in quite some time

 

[Trevoga]

Along with all the Russian mistranslations mentioned above (fucking kraccho lmao) I'd add that when she speaks about how tasty the meal is, what she says actually translates to something like "it really is tasty", like she expected it to suck. And, of course, the classic random capitalisation of letters turning блин into БЛиН on page 14.

Is there a single manga that doesn't fuck up its russian? Hell, I'd take a light novel.

 

[EnderWin]

If you have a nickel for every white hair Russian girl you know from any series, how much would you have any what can you afford?

 

[eviljackspicer]

If you have a nickel for every white hair Russian girl you know from any series, how much would you have any what can you afford?

Last one I saw drowned and came back as a ghost

 

[Trew865]

Lmao Leon got married to a random Russian girl? Chris must be pissed

 

[beefclot]

It's amazing everyone is too busy arguing about Russia vs. Ukraine when the manga is probably AI generated. Why is everybody's ears all jacked up? And their hands look weird

 

[Altair_Sama]

Deym, GUP fangirl, if only they are exist...

 

[HoangDinh]

WHAT THE HELL IS SHE HOLDING IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT PANEL OF PAGE 22 ?? 2 LEEKS ?? IS SHE MIKU @@ OR IS SHE HOLDING CHOPSTICKS BUT THE ANGLE IS SO BADLY DRAWN :>

 

[Zender12]

GuP references nice.

 

[Crusher_Man]

This shit is ass

 

[Shinigamisama]

Didn't expect some GuP in here. And I had to ask Google what that hole was.

 

[Tomusbombus]

Okay so she is into Japan, anime, and speaks some Japanese... but does not know how chopsticks work? Dude I swear, some people act like using chopsticks is some divine art.

 

[DylanGTech]

I’m reminded of my time abroad, and seemingly how rude everyone appeared to be.

In reality, despite Americans being notoriously obtuse, foreigners often don’t have the semi-scripted manners and hospitality that’s expected of most Americans. A lot more use “please” and “thank you”, a lot more “how are you?” in greetings. Waving or even greeting strangers in some places. Excusing yourself when bumping into people (unless you’re in a very packed metropolis). In reality it ain’t rudeness when foreigners don’t do that, or speak more straightforwardly. Can even get a little enchanting…

Japanese culture is in the same boat as American culture in this regard lol

 

[TsuyoshiTakeru]

Ooo~ I stumbled upon a new romance comedy manga (｡･∀･)❤️✨
Karen-chan looks beautiful and cute but what we see that her stamina is really low, she maybe not used to go outside (NEET maybe?) anyway, this going into my "Reading" list ✨

 

[KimKowabunga]

Why do russian girls always have silver hair in manga?

 

[kaezeribato]

It's amazing everyone is too busy arguing about Russia vs. Ukraine when the manga is probably AI generated. Why is everybody's ears all jacked up? And their hands look weird

It would explain why the symetry is inexistant.

 

[Eighty-six]

Almost certainly Russian; the Japanese have a thing for Russian girls. But Ukrainian is very similar.

Nah, Ukrainian is very different and it's hard to understand if you only know russian, unless it's surjik.

Belarusian language is more similar to russian.

Illustrating how similar Ukrainian is to Russian, everything in this first chapter that made sense as Russian also made sense as Ukrainian.

Only because most Ukrainians know and speak russian.

If she'd speak in ukrainian, russians wouldn't understand the shit.

Also it should be "Kruto", not "kracho".

No, I wasn't referring to how a Ukrainian would speak or write in Russian; one can translate the passages as Ukrainian.

If someone spoke Cantonese where Mandarin Chinese prevailed, most of the listeners would at best struggle to understand. None-the-less, those two languages are closely related and written very similarly.

Cursory research corroborates @hiddentheory's assertion. I don't know why nobody tried citing anything.

Cantonese and Mandarin are also dramatically different languages-- I remember learning that one in linguistics. They're both able to be written using Simplified Chinese, yes, but the differences are apparent even when written. It's difficult to consider them "dialects" of Chinese, even.