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Originally Posted by Yot-chan
Cripes, that's a can of worms...I'm pretty busy with other translation stuff right now, but I'll see if a can find the time to give everything an once-over.
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That would be nice, Yot-chan. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by woodearth
Maybe start by telling us how you went about the translation and what resources you used. I found this site to be very helpful in my Japanese self study. |
Hm, it was very difficult.
I actually went halfway between the kanji and romanji. Like I said, half of the kanji is just gibberish, especially when you look it up for the English language. For example: "dokudoku" and "takanatte" are not words in the English language, but they are sounds, apparently. Which makes it difficult to translate.
But when it came to the kanji, some words did not read off right (meaning I either did not recognize it or remember it) and I had to look it up via
here. I probably did a bad job of going with the first translation but when it could not find the kanji given, I went to another one
here to find it (and as you can see "sadame" apparently wasn't a word on the first).
Like I said, it's a rough translation; I did it within about two hours. But for what it's worth, I look back at some parts of "Izorado" at least and realize that quite a few of the translations are at least near what the song is meaning. I'm not good at forming sentences with the translated English...
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Also context is king in japanese. Lyrics are especially hard because they often take shortcuts - perhaps to make it rhyme better - and leave out the parts of the sentence that establishes the context.
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Oh trust me, I'm aware of that. The line "nisen kounen no ame" was actually just translated out to "rain for two thousand light-years shortly soils this town" and that just didn't work right for me. First off, it's not a sentence and second, it didn't go with the sentence below it. But the one that drove me nuts was "hikari no koronii de tokete karamatte hana mo arashi mo fukiareru mukougawa e kondo kono machi o yogosu no wa" because the whole translation made NO sense whatsoever when I did it. They took too many shortcuts with that one where it was basically saying something was "melting and twining" without giving the "it" a physical being (or a noun).
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I think you were trying to inject some creativity in your translation since you translated the word 光速 [Kousoku] two different ways. Is it to make it sing better in English? 光速 has a pretty definite meaning of "light speed" or "speed of light" and it is a stretch to translate it as "Sparkling" in the title or "Light-filled" in the lyrics. In the context of the genre and the setting of the series, "Light speed" is most likely the intended word.
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Oh, I know that "kousoku" means "light-speed" but since "climax" already means "a quick ending," the "light" part seemed to work better. I actually liked the idea of saying it's a "sparkling climax" because it happens fast (and the light is already there); basically using a metaphor (which I've seen some past translators have done too if I look to "My Fanclub's Night").
But I guess that if we go by "light-speed," then "climax" might not have as much of an impact as a word in the song because a "climax" is already fast enough as it is. But I guess that's an opinion...?
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So the title of "Get in on〜光速クライmax" is should be translated as "Get in on〜Light Speed Climax" or less likely "Get in on〜Light Speed Cry Max". For a creative translation words/phrases like "ultra fast" or "instantaneous" may be better in preserving some of the meaning of the original word.
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Note taken. I'll try to figure out which "quick" phrase sounds better for the title in the final draft.
Thanks for your input. If you noticed anything in the translations that I messed up (preferably
Izorado since I wasn't too fond of
Get it on due to all the difficult English to work around), that would be helpful.
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