Youjo Senki - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Die Wacht am Rhein I

[MangaDex]

 

[nightdk]

THAT IS A GREAT REFERENCE (REFERING TO TO TITLE ) I LIKE THAT MUSIC *DIE WACHT AM RHEIN*

 

[CheerTheDead]

So Visha is Russian :3

 

[CheerTheDead]

I just realise how short she is . lol

 

[SturgeonsRevelation]

This font... why

 

[Grimmjack20]

Visha: Even though I envy Erya for being posted somewhere safe...

Imperial Army: Are you sure about that?

 

[Tsukinotaku]

The most impressive thing with this manga is that they somehow still make Tanya looks cute even after the anime that basically made her a monster...

 

[SotiCoto]

At least THIS translator knows what they're doing and isn't a Google Translate abortion like the first two chapters.

 

[immortalartisan]

I like this already

 

[gamma2015]

they got her a child's chair lmao

 

[SirLOBSter]

@SturgeonsRevelation I feel you... at least the translation is still good...
Though they should've watched for punctuation and "framing".

 

[Kabeidon]

I do not understand the Moscow joke , can anyone explain?

 

[cannarali]

I will say Victoria looks a lot better here than in the anime adaptation. In anime she was not bad but this sure is a upgrade in her design.

 

[adfjs]

The most impressive thing with this manga is that they somehow still make Tanya looks cute even after the anime that basically made her a monster...

Everyone looked like monsters in the anime. Only Visha's decent-looking and even that's being way too generous.

 

[The5thSeraph]

 

[Iktome]

hikkikomori = shut in

 

[Yankun]

I do not understand the Moscow joke , can anyone explain?

It's not exactly a joke.

Moscow is indeed "Mosukuwa" in Japanese.
But at the same time, it's "Moskau" in German and "Moscou" in French.
That German "Moskau" is then read as "Mosko-" in Japanese (also formed around the time English "Moscow" became a thing, it's a rather long story).

Regarding the long story:
The name for "Moskva" was actually spelled "Moskov'" (Московь) in old East Slavic language. This is transliterated into West Slavic and Germanic languages with the suffix of "-ow".
(You can still see this rule in "Muscovite" - the people later formed into what we consider Russians nowadays, or in "Muscovy" - the principality of Moscow).
So, here we have "Moskov" becoming "Moskow", which in turn becoming "Moskau", "Moscow", "Moscou".

Later, a vowel shift happened in Middle Ages, often refered to as Jer Shift in Slavic languages, making "Moskov" morph into "Moskva" as we see today (but it doesn't quite apply to "Moskow" anymore).