Kin-iro Mosaic – 03

Union jacket, best jacket.

Yuyu, who does the encoding, turned a little invisible today, so we’re releasing with HS video today. There will be a v1 eventually, probably, with non-HS video.

TL notes post-break.

Episode 03: Torrent

TL Notes:

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Since all foreigners are the same, “half” means “half-Japanese, half-foreigner”. Well, it means “half-Japanese”, just as long as the other half isn’t also Japanese.

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“Nande” here can mean both “with what” and “why” (though it normally means “why”). Karen is interpreting it as “with what did you come to Japan” (i.e. airplane).

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The Japanese version of the name is usually written Risa, of course.

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I’m not sure exactly what I wanted to explain here, but I’m sure you can figure it out for yourselves.

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Alice = Arisu ~= Risu = Squirrel.

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English people are stereotypically outgoing and not reserved at all, right?

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“Full foreigner” here does not mean losing a game of Starcraft that you had 100% won.

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The reason why it’s even remotely possible that Karen thinks Aya is talking about being a weather vane when she says “read the mood/atmosphere” is because “weather vane” in Japanese also refers to someone who is opportunistic and goes with whatever’s having the most success (like a fair weather fan).

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Four-character phrases are a thing. Alice and Karen are naming actual ones, but, as you can probably tell, Youko and Shinobu aren’t.

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I kind of wanted to go with “tsundere eyes” since that’s really the only context I’ve ever seen it used. Tsurime are the upturned eyes that most tsundere anime characters have.

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When you’re not in a club, you go home after school. So people call it the “Go Home Club”. Clever, right?

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Bu (部) = club. Shino-bu = Shino Club.

10 thoughts on “Kin-iro Mosaic – 03

  1. “English people are stereotypically outgoing and not reserved at all, right?”

    I’m love people’s stereotypes of us, I remember reading something similar on a Crunchyroll thread once.

    Thanks for the release! =D ^_^

    • Honestly, v0 is fine. Our encoder is busy with Things™, so it’ll be around eventually, but everything else is all finished.

  2. 7:49 – Japanese is difficult language.
    >is this part of the scene, or just missed editing? because it can be both, just wondering.

    • It was intentional. IIRC, that was Alice trying to imitate Karen’s bad accent, right? It’ll happen again, so when it does it would be safe to assume that it’s a reflection of how they’re speaking.

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