Toshiue Elite Onna Kishi ga Boku no Mae de dake Kawaii - Ch. 33.3

[MangaDex]

 

[Qwertybluefist]

Her: LOOK AT ME IF YOU DON'T IT'S RUDE

Also Her: WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME STOP LOOKING AT ME IT'S RUDE

??

 

[flxsemi]

Crusaders BTFO

 

[deathmailrock]

This feels so forced... Just because he's refusing to look at them shouldn't be considered disrespect towards their culture

 

[MesaOracle]

Time for some cultural exchange, if ya know what I mean.

 

[Chronigan]

Anyone else betting the crotch tatto will be plot relevant in the future?

 

[Exile]

I wasnt expecting filling my bingo card ...

 

[phil777]

It's a crotch tattoo, not a womb tatto. Those are a little higher. Know thy biology, please.

Also:

Mashes that X button

 

[Ochrolv]

Wow there was a lot of PLOT development in today's chapter. Thanks for the translations & for the wonderful art.

 

[Mangamoz]

I love me some hot chocolate with milk.

 

[danielboredom]

For some reason I don't think that the original Japanese line was "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," nor do I imagine that Haru has the proper frame of reference to understand that particular saying.

 

[reu]

MuhDik said:
Ah shit, here we go again

 

[Firestorm252]

This feels so forced... Just because he's refusing to look at them shouldn't be considered disrespect towards their culture

Everything after they started going out officially has felt forced.

They probably should've concluded after that arc and spun off/started another series.

 

[Vergift]

This chapter seriously dangerous. I read it at my workplace and one of my my co-worker almost take a peek at my phone.

To make it worse, my co-worker is a female. 😅

 

[Al_Azif]

Eh, can we skip this arc. I just want to go back with the Captain and Haru's romance.

 

[Jackist]

God this sucks in so many ways. Karen getting NTR'd and Haru just going along with it.

He should be getting angry, telling them to back off, anything. While getting openly sexually harassed maybe go "get your fucking tits off me" ANYTHING. He used to have a backbone. fuck this sucks

 

[jjhoonster]

For some reason I don't think that the original Japanese line was "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," nor do I imagine that Haru has the proper frame of reference to understand that particular saying.

Obviously, the original Japanese didn't literally translate into this idiom. A much more literal translation would be "In order to respect the other party's culture, one must actively make an effort to blend in." However, translating this into the well-known idiom "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" was a stylistic choice that captured this exact same message in a more succinct way that is also easier to typeset. When translating, I am an advocate of flexibility (within reason) within authorial intent. While adhering strictly to literal meanings is a choice, it's one that I often find adds additional hardship when trying to structure sentences in English. JP to EN is never a 1-to-1 translation, especially since both languages have widely different grammatical structures and rules to them. You almost always have to shift around clauses in order for things to make sense. In my view, translating is first and foremost a test of reading comprehension. Translators need to first decipher authorial intent, and then find a way to articulate that intent in a completely different language in a way that makes sense to both them and readers. They need to determine what information the author is trying to push out as well as the general emotions and atmosphere that the author is trying to convey. But as long as it conveys the right intent with the right nuances, there's no real right answer in how to translate a line. (As an aside, the "authorial intent" portion is what I believe that the controversial industry translators at companies like CrunchyRoll or certain video game companies struggle with)

Regarding a "proper frame of reference", it's true that the literal country of Rome likely does not exist in this universe. But it doesn't need to, because the meaning of the idiom is much more important than the individual words within them. When someone says "It's raining cats and dogs", they don't mean that cats and dogs are literally falling from the sky. Likewise, we aren't referring to the actual country of Rome, but rather the underlying meaning of the idiom that almost exactly equates to how I would translate the original Japanese line literally. Again, this was a stylistic choice that Hax made and I agreed with purely based on our translation styles and philosophies. In this case, it would've been pretty easy to just slap on the literal translation, but I find that a little more boring.

I don't mean to say that your comment is wrong, per se. Hax and I have these kinds of conversations all the time, bringing up exactly what you pointed out. In particular, we have a running joke that Jesus Christ exists in Elite Knight's universe because we've used the term "Jesus Christ" as an expletive in a few chapters. But that is also a stylistic choice, and one that I've never heard anyone say anything about because the meaning of the expletive extends far beyond the literal words.

In conclusion, you make a valid point. But it's a point that Hax and I have already considered and decided to proceed anyway, because we didn't find it significant enough to dissuade our course of action considering our translation styles and the justifications made above.

Thanks for reading this rant this far if you made it here. It's just fun to write these rant-style essays detailing my thoughts on a matter that I find interesting. And the topic of translating is something that I personally enjoy thinking and talking about very much. I probably wouldn't be doing manga stuff if I didn't.

Edit: This would've made really good endpage material. Darn. Doesn't feel right to slap it on an endpage now that I've already posted it.

 

[KeyboardLord]

Ooh
'ery noice

 

[Xxjuggernaut]

and dropped

 

[Mizerie]

No wonder they chose him to investigate. Being composed majorly of women means that there is a chance they will lower their guard on the MC allowing him to discover things and notbjust their bodies.

Being a competent young man also helps.