Tokidoki Bosotto Roshia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Solitary Princess and Her Lazy Neighbour

[MangaDex]

 

[Ungrave]

Great opportunity to speak fluent Russian to her right before graduation or something.

 

[flannan]

The translation of "Хотя, серьёзное выражение лица тебе идёт" seems to be off. If were to translate it, I would say "But serious expression fits you well". I wonder if it's the Japanese-to-English translation that is wrong, or Russian-to-Japanese translation.

 

[N2O]

OH MY GOD YES

 

[Amenohi]

It can be quite amusing when other people speak a foreign/local language while expecting you not to understand them. Sometimes it's just better to stay quite or speak in another language to prevent them from getting embarrassed.😆

 

[HunterCO]

All fun and games till they reply right back fluently

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

Some translations (of russian parts) is weird, at least the russian is good and not like most of the time i seen in manga.

 

[The28thNight]

Honestly kind of a genius set up for one of these rom coms

 

[micz7ryu]

Alright this is funny and interesting although it is the once again most famous girl falls for the lazy/low tier guy

 

[DownBird]

YEAAAAAAAAAH!

I saw the promotional manga for the light novel a long while ago, and I loved it! I always wished the series was adapted into manga fully. Today, I was just scrolling and I found out that exists! I've read all the chapters translated so far, and I'm ecstatic to hear there is an anime in production! I can't wait to watch it! Keep up the good work, translators!

 

[Arin-san]

The concept is actually REALLLY good, this has incredible potential. Don't fuck it up pls

Also MC-kun is just like me frfr
Learned English completely by watching movies. Now I'm confident that I can get an insanely high score in IELTS though I haven't even put 1% of the effort the rest of my classmates put into learning English.

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

This is gonna be an absolute hoot. And an anime coming already? Sweeeeet.

 

[arcitek]

How many mangas have I read that have this exact beauty/normal guy trope? Probably a lot. Will I get tired? Hell no.

 

[AnotherDuck]

Great opportunity to speak fluent Russian to her right before graduation or something.

Or if he wants to confess. I bet he'd make an impression.

 

[SuplexSensei]

Alya's unfiltered Russian feels like that oneshot manga where FMC has a talking mouth right behind her head who speaks nothing but her innermost thoughts. Yes, to everyone. And yes, especially her crush, much to FMC's utter embarrassment.

Sincerity, is often pushed down from fear of rejection. And it goes on both sides, Alya's sweet oblivious Russian nothings and Kuze understanding every single word of it.

But it's these wacky straight-outta-romcom situations, and whatever shenanigans it might ensue, that could make even a grown man squeal internally. Let's gooooo 😭🗿🤍✨

 

[ihaterockyroad]

Based dad FORCING child to watch kino.

 

[TigerXra]

What I nice opportunity to practice russian language. It was weird feeling, switching from english to russian back and forth in one manga. The stranger feeling than this one was only when I've found another manga translated to my native language (lithuanian).

 

[Trevoga]

The russian is shockingly good (other than the typical typographical abomination, we leave the same amount of space between letters as english does, and we also use capital letters and punctuation, even with one letter sentences). Guess it's time to do my usual breakdown, however belated.

The disgusting part is more of a "[he's] disgusting", but the meaning carries well.
Cute should be cutie, the meaning is not damaged.
Idiot should definitely be replaced with dummy, "дурачок" is a diminutive version of the word for "fool", and is very soft as far as insults go. Next part of that panel is good, no errors.
As for the bottom panel of the same page, abysmally wrong, as outlined by flannan above.
Final instance of russian is done well once again, I'm struggling to find something to latch onto, like how "that" is merely contextually implied in the original sentence, but that's such a ridiculous thing to complain about in a translation.

I'm convinced they hired someone who properly knows the language for the russian text, because there's no errors, the sentences make sense, none of that "хара шоу" BS (for context, another manga with a russian-speaking character butchered the word "хорошо", producing the aforementioned abomination). I expected much worse, between how the language is usually treated in manga, and what little I read of the original novel having some issues in that department too.

 

[eva3071]

Russian winter is cold, harsh, mistress.

 

[Ruthyyyyy]

Is it just me that thinks talking in a foreign language to someone or even in the presence of someone who cant speak it, is rude??