/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>936945

There is only one more, which is about the author trying to score weed in Thailand. It's a lot wordier and not really that funny so I don't think I'm going to bother.

>>936938

>>936937

These were done by a nihonjin? It's unusual seeing anything about weed.

>>936967

>It's unusual seeing anything about weed.

Yeah, the only series I can recall right now would be Black Lagonn, Samurai Champloo and Sarazanmai >>920532 from last season.

>>936967

Yes, since he said he lied to the Thai guys saying he was Chinese. By his Twitter account he seems to be into the whole gangster rap weed yigger subculture that apparently exists. Drugs in Japan is an interesting world.

>>936969

I also remember Yo from Shaman King wearing some weed shirts, but that's it. It's so uncommon, not even doujins where drugs are involved have weed, they'll have mysterious EV substance that makes you crazy but they won't have weed.

>>936970

Yes, several points in this comic were interesting to me: insisting the manga's weed isn't like real life weed, hiding the weed inside a fake coke can, the NWA panel. I have 0 involvement with drugs myself, I barely even drink, but I love to read about the nips' relationship with drugs, it's so different from the rest of the world.

>>936970

>Drugs in Japan is an interesting world.

That's an understatement when even the Yakuza won't deal in most drugs, and people get prison sentences for having a blunt (likely made of shitty stems) like the stuff you'd expect drug dealers to get in other countries. I very much think that the image of weed being tied to foreigners also strengthens that conviction in Japan (as does the alcohol industry). Even the fact that this guy didn't get sent to the police for that short web comic is a miracle in and of itself.

>>937046

>Even the fact that this guy didn't get sent to the police for that short web comic is a miracle in and of itself

Maybe he just has really good opsec.

>>937217

Can't think of a very elegant way to put it in English, but I'll try.

>Then, why has the boom for eroge that make you cry, thus allowing you to savor both joys, died out?

>The otaku in the next seat over felt the mercilessness of time and knew that his days of youth were never to come back. Unknown to anyone, he shed tears just as he did back then...

Not entirely sure if the tone here is meant to be very flowery or kind of neutral and natural. I could probably embellish it a little bit if I had an excuse to use fancier language but I don't know if it's justified.

>>937596

[Title] A culture of grey

>You have those censor characters, right?

>What do those even mean? Do you know?

<[Small]*Blunt*

[Examples]

● D*ck

● Pocket M*nsters

>Why did you have to pick those two examples of all things?

>You can't just leave those as is without covering them up...

>It just shows that you're willing to hide those.

>Between this and mosaics, this country is number one when it comes to blurring reality.

>Stop picking a fight with the country. You'll get the military involved.

>What's wrong with blurring, anyway...

>Sometimes things actually get more annoying when you have to be clear...

>Like what?

>...Drawing doujinshi...

[Furigana says "What I'm doing right now"]

>Damn you, otaku...

In that last panel there's also that 灰ッ, which I'm really not sure what it's meant to be. 灰 means ash, or grey, so it might have something to do with the screentone that appears there or maybe something to do with doujin censorship? It's also read "hai" so it could just mean a sort of self-affirming "Yep". It might be some kind of slang thing but googling it and checking a few dictionaries doesn't seem to give me anything past the literal meaning, aside from one where they make a pun out of Dio's quote about the greatest high.

>>937596

>>937609

I'm not going to tell you that I know what I'm doing or anything but I'm pretty sure that first line reads like "You know those word censors right? Is there even any point to them? You know what I'm sayin?" followed by the little 'frankly'/however you want to phrase it floating by her head. The second line is talking more about why you'd put a dick right next to a pokemon, in the sense of how contrasting the two dieas are, but frankly that's probably a question you shouldn't ask me. Maybe something like 'Why out of everything did you have to line those two up to show me?'. If you want to make the joke more punchy you could try and phrase the last bit like "What's wrong with blurring a few lines anyway? Having everyone be on the straight and narrow would make life too much of a pain." "When would that be the case?" "... Like for what I'm doing right now (Doujin Artist)..."

The biggest change here is from 'for example' to 'when what that be the case', if you want to really stick to the orginal you'd need to think of something else but that's the best I can do.

>>937700

>how contrasting the two dieas are

ideas

>>937596

Oh yeah for the title 'A Culture Built on Greys' could also help deliver the joke more, so that it sounds less like it's about grey and more about shades of grey/grey areas, but either way works honestly.

>>936937

>>936938

Could you post the raws or link to the source?

>>937991

I'd be more than happy to do a bit of editing, checking or rewriting but my kanji level is miles below my speaking/grammar level and I'm already translating three things more or less on my own so I probably wouldn't be taking on the whole of the translation. On the other hand between me and the other guys here I'm sure you'd be able to get some help with a page every now and then, especially more difficult pages that the guy your working with now can't really manage.

Any day now I'll be ready to upload that first Hiatari Ryouko batch.

>>938815

First learn japanese, then learn english.

>>938815

Pretty sure フリー means freelance in this context. Also don't fucking romanize Oono as Ono. Maybe get a few more fonts to use if you're also going to be doing the typesetting.

Other than that I can't really trust myself to give accurate advice at the moment. I'd say you should probably stick to smaller/simpler stuff for the moment, but challenging yourself is a good way to learn too, as long as you bother to look stuff up instead of making assumptions.

>>938815

I can't speak for the accuracy of the Japanese, but there are a few places where the English wording could be improved, and there's at least one typo (felling instead of feeling). Judging by the apostrophe in "200'000", am I right in guessing English isn't your native language?

>>938815

Second grade University student, haha. I have never heard second grade used as a marker for someone in college. Its always "What year are you in college?" "I'm a sophomore" It should be "A SOPHOMORE UNIVERSITY STUDENT" or at least "second year".

>>938841

>sophomore

Do people actually use that nomenclature?

I have universally heard "second year" and so on. The only time "soph" gets used is specifically to describe an upper-year student living in residence, so the first years have a more experienced and (ostensibly) more mature peer-mentor to rely on.

>>938843

Maybe its different elsewhere, but in America we use these terms to say what grade in University we are: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. If you are a fifth year or are behind a few classes you just say Sophomore or Junior based on the classes you are taking. I'm sorry I don't know anything about localizing but if you intend to keep it closer to a universal or Japanese mindset of talking, do what you think is best. Maybe in Japan they say second year, and the manga is in Japan, so I guess you are right. We are reading what they say in their context, they aren't going to college in the US.

>>938843

>>938841

>>938846

As a non-american that's done student exchanges to several different english-speaking universities in other countries literally only americans use these terms. Every other country just says [x] year, perhaps including whether they're bachelor/master/doctorate. I've never heard anyone use grade but first year/fourth year etc. or something like 'I'm in the second year of my master' seems to be pretty universal.

>>938815

First of all it would be better if you didn't paraphrase some of the content in the larger boxes. It's not wrong by any means but for example the second blurb specifically refers to their bodies and being able to get advice about their troubles but you've only mentioned a place to talk about their troubles. The blurb about the clinic is more like I work as a freelance counsellor from a small clinic, the ideas are connected. In the bubble right after that she doesn't mention anything about victorian era specifically, and she also says that she did the interior all by herself, not that she neccessarily bought it. More importantly then all these small misses is reworking the English so that the sentences are more comprehensible, especially the very last line which I think is a bit wrong in terms of the Japanese too.

>>938815

>>938875

Forgot to mention you called the assistant Mikoto despite it saying Makoto pretty clearly.

>>943405

If the fifth pic is the current lay-out; then it looks good.