Kyou mo E ni Kaita Mochi ga Umai - Ch. 43

[HunterCO]

She got abducted and they just said "understandable, have a nice day"

 

[Deoxyribo9]

So this is what Deus Vult actually means...

 

[Jakeh24]

Just saw the "official" English title for the manga and it is so terrible it puts that old Cat Planet Cuties localization of a title to shame. I get "manjuu" isn't exactly a Western thing but c'mon...

For the longest time, it was 'the mochi i drew was tasty'

thats a much better tl than the new one

 

[Jakeh24]

yeah but it's fairly archaic, i haven't heard anyone say pie in the sky in at least 10 years. i’m sure the younger audience the series is geared for (younger being teens to young adults, not strictly children) would think of it more literally, which makes very little sense in context to the series itself. anyone who is reading manga probably knows what mochi is, and if they don’t they will after reading the first chapter. truly a stupid localized title.

Type of thing ya grandparents say

 

[kaminomikan]

if I saw a bird taking a person away, the first thing I would think, is that person became the bird meal...

 

[Amariithynar]

yeah but it's fairly archaic, i haven't heard anyone say pie in the sky in at least 10 years. i’m sure the younger audience the series is geared for (younger being teens to young adults, not strictly children) would think of it more literally, which makes very little sense in context to the series itself. anyone who is reading manga probably knows what mochi is, and if they don’t they will after reading the first chapter. truly a stupid localized title.

Not just that, but "The Mochi I Drew is Tasty Today Too" is LITERALLY HOW HE SURVIVED AT THE START OF THE STORY.

 

[Claresilver47]

"Let's eat a pie in the sky" was originally titled in Japanese as "Kyou mo e ni kaita mochi ga umai (Painted rice cakes taste good today)." In Japanese, "e ni kaita mochi (Painted rice cakes) is an idiom that means "something you can't eat, in other words, an impractical ideal or a armchair dream." It's kind of like the English idiom "pie in the sky." So, this story is about eating painted rice cakes and at the same time, it's about loving impractical ideals. Even though there's no actual pie in the story, I hope you enjoy reading it with this in mind. - From the author


It's certainly not perfect but it's a decent match for idioms in different languages. It doesn't keep the "draw" or "paint" reference which I'd say is a bigger issue.

So what you're saying is that the translated title that keeps the idiom while also keeping the theme would be "Let's Draw and Eat the Pie in the Sky"

 

[Valahuir]

Wonder what the royal family considers higher, the divine bird or the divine dragon.

Thought the English title was a bit odd, I sort of see what they're going for, but I don't think he's ever drawn a pie to eat yet whereas he has drawn a mochi... at least the EN translation didn't try to pass the mochi off as pie to fit their title...

What about a jelly filled donut?

 

[shakukukuku]

big birb won full pigeon-style by shitting on the king and his chessboard

i applaud

 

[elmco]

The description on mangaupdates includes an explanation of the new title,


It's certainly not perfect but it's a decent match for idioms in different languages. It doesn't keep the "draw" or "paint" reference which I'd say is a bigger issue.

i didn't know that was an idiom, which makes the title even more clever since it's literal and metaphorical. which draws even more attention to the terrible english title because sure, it's an idiom that means the same thing, but as i mentioned before no one uses it anymore. it also holds zero literal meaning as there's no pie, and as you said the painted part was just dropped. sure the reason why they named it that makes a but more sense but i still think a straight translation not only sounds better but just makes more sense

 

[Pinnaclen]

Just saw the "official" English title for the manga and it is so terrible it puts that old Cat Planet Cuties localization of a title to shame. I get "manjuu" isn't exactly a Western thing but c'mon...

like actually what the fuck. At this point mochi has become a large enough phenomenon in the west that most people know about it.
how did it go from "the mochi I drew today is tast" to "lets eat pie in the sky"

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

That's not how you spell "wife", Tougo.
Don't squander the effort of your winged wingman

Owe 1,000 gold coins? Simple. Become Tougo's wife, debt is now split, Tougo pays it off.

Big birb was like "If you want a job well done, you better do it yourself" and then he did it himself. Good job big birb

Birb knows if you want grandhatchings, you cannot just sit back and do nothing.

 

[Laxtir]

Tougo had an artboner

 

[someunregpunk]

like actually what the fuck. At this point mochi has become a large enough phenomenon in the west that most people know about it.
how did it go from "the mochi I drew today is tast" to "lets eat pie in the sky"

I meet people everyday that doesn't realize their favorite musicans have made cover songs and who would swear on their parent's grave that their favorite musicans originally wrote those songs.

Meaning... I wouldn't assume every person in the world knows what mochi is.

 

[Pinnaclen]

I meet people everyday that doesn't realize their favorite musicans have made cover songs and who would swear on their parent's grave that their favorite musicans originally wrote those songs.

Meaning... I wouldn't assume every person in the world knows what mochi is.

I mean, you do have to consider that the target demographic would know what it is. ie avid consumers of japanese content and maybe culture should know that mochi is a japanese confectionary

 

[Diagus]

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