The level of abridgment in this episode was horrifying.

I wish they didn’t cut so many of the cutesy parts out…

Anyway, Romio’s name is spelled that way because it’s originally written in kanji, and that’s how that kind of name is romanized. Besides, it’s even spelled with an “i” in the email he gets.

And their school is an elevator school, though I don’t think there’s really anything confusing about it this episode. It basically means that you get to go directly from one level to another (for example, middle to high) without taking tests (as you would normally have to).

New edit: Well fuck.  The v2 we made was missing fonts and the chapter file.  Not as big an issue as having the wrong script, so let’s just keep adding things until we can’t handle it anymore.  No patch this time, just the files.

Episode 05v2: Torrent | Patch | Chapters/Fonts

Also, Aikatsu delayed until Friday.

Poor Kashiko…

So apparently, the anime decided not to have Rulebook dude introduce himself outright, so there’s a joke that doesn’t really come across as clearly in the anime as it does in the manga. Not that we translated it anyway.

Basically, in the scene where he talks about his ancestor, he ends it with “seigi da ze”, or “that was/that is/it is/I am/etc justice”. And his name is Seigi. Which means justice. Clever, I know. In the manga, when Kiri replies “What justice?” he just says “What are you talking about? I’m just introducing myself.”

Here I don’t think you actually find out his name until police girl mentions it.

Anyway, now that you’ve possibly spoiled yourself, here’s the episode:

Episode 04: Torrent

Why do I feel like she’s going to get way less screentime than she deserves?

We have a shiny new timer. So it took a little longer, because, uh, complications. Welcome new timer.

The “Hai” in Haimura means “ash”, or “grey”.

I’m tired, so I’m going to sleep. This post really should’ve been longer.

Episode 03: Torrent

Everyone’s Jojo-ing this week

This is just a placeholder post while Etoce’s out.  You should thank him, he prioritized this over work today for the last eight hours.

Hi, I’m Etoce. I underwent indescribable sacrifice to bring you this episode at this time. Rest assured, it wasn’t because I wanted to. I just happened to have something to do at night, so we had to release before that. It’s not like I did it because I like you, alright?

I would like to go into further detail about all the hardships I had to go through, but, like I said, they’re indescribable. What I can say is that it probably won’t happen again, so this early release just a one-time thing, unfortunately.

I’m trying to think of things that would’ve needed TL-noting, but the only thing that comes to mind is the spelling of Zewulfa’s name. Research indicated that a similar-sounding name was the name of a monster in Seiken Densetsu 3, which was called Zable Fahr in the English version, but similar-sounding isn’t same-sounding so they’re not the same. We ended up just going with what the Kono-Basho scanlating group (who did the part of the manga where she’s first mentioned) did.

Episode 02: Torrent

Blurrier times

Kiri means “cut”. Iwai means “celebration”. Haimura is gray-village. Which is sort of like gray land.

And there’s actually no cool way to translate “Dansai Bunri (no Crime Edge)” into English. It’s partially due to every single (okay, not literally, but…) Chinese loanword in Japanese being a noun. Even if the original Chinese word was a verb. So things like cutting and severing are non-awkward sounding nouns that are verbified when they need to be verbed. Whereas we have to resort to icky gerunds in English.

Episode 01: Torrent