#Esperanza C. Boronial

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and this one goes to all the baccano! blogs that didn’t ask for this you are getting it anyway

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Ooh, this is a fun askmeme actually. Especially like the voice hc question. Can I do more? Dalton and Majeedah, Esperanza and...Jean, let's say?

Sure! Here’s the meme.

Dalton Strauss

1) fight them or fight for them: oh geez. I certainly can’t win against him and, also, he doesn’t need me to fight for him, either. And doesn’t particularly deserve it. I choose option 3: stay far away

2) on a scale of 1-10 how excited do I get when I see them: hmm 7~8? He’s informative.

3) would i smooch: no, I would not

4) have I drawn/written about them/should i draw/write about them: I’ve drawn him, and I wrote him in that fic with smol Huey. I’m not particularly inclined to draw him again without context, but I’d love to write him some more; I’ve got a third part to Grief, and the Smile Junkie half-planned in which he stops by and has to interact with Elmer.

5) voice HC if they don’t have a voice already: Hm… a bit of a gravelly edge to it, and either extremely careless or terrifyingly focused depending on the circumstances. The switch over to “terrifyingly focused” tends to happen a few sentences after you should start being terrified, though.

Majeedah Batutah

1) fight them or fight for them: I suspect she’s got bodyguards, sure, I’d join their number

2) on a scale of 1-10 how excited do I get when I see them: shit man if she actually showed up I’d start gibbering. 10.

3) would i smooch: I don’t know? We don’t know enough about her to answer that question.

4) have I drawn/written about them/should i draw/write about them: I’ve drawn her multiple times and I’ve got a fanfiction about her that’s like 300 words and some edits away from the end!! I should finish that!!

5) voice HC if they don’t have a voice already: Iiii’m not touching this one, she doesn’t have any lines

Esperanza C. Boronial

1) fight them or fight for them: I’d fight for him but he absolutely wouldn’t let me

2) on a scale of 1-10 how excited do I get when I see them: 8

3) would i smooch: On the cheek, sure

4) have I drawn/written about them/should i draw/write about them: I haven’t drawn him in a long time? I should draw him some more, and write about him some more.

5) voice HC if they don’t have a voice already: A bit high for a man, very gentle when speaking with women. His voice can be thunderous on occasion, but not nearly as often as he thinks it is.

Jean-Pierre Accardo

1) fight them or fight for them: I feel like if I punched him in the face he’d say “yeah, that’s fair.”

2) on a scale of 1-10 how excited do I get when I see them: 3. Excited just isn’t the word.

3) would i smooch: No, definitely not.

4) have I drawn/written about them/should i draw/write about them: I’ve drawn him and written about him. I’d love to write more, but should I? Should I really enjoy writing his toxic friendship/edging towards a romantic relationship with Fermet? Should I???

5) voice HC if they don’t have a voice already: kinda… reedy? Not very commanding or confident. When he tries to sound sarcastic it comes out as a little… pathetic.

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August 20 (the release date online retailers were originally projecting) has come and gone, but September 3, 2019 is here--and with it Baccano! Volume 11! Well, it was. This post is a day late. Apologies.

Yen Press website: Vol 11 Hardcover

Where to Buy: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | RightStuf | Books-a-Million | BookWalker and more... (see links in the Yen Press site listings for hardcover and digital download).

Corresponding post on /r/Baccano: Reddit | Old Reddit (Old Reddit recommended if it isn't your default setting)

For those new to this, my Release Notes typically include:

official name spellings (e.g. of characters, places, organizations, etc);

notable differences between the official and fan translations (e.g. facts/canon info previously incorrectly translated)

any general official translation choice worth noting (such as a font change for a character perspective, though these are more noticeable in print)

You get the idea.

Release Notes under the cut. It's 1 AM here, so any further info I'll add in an edit + reblog.

Release Notes

Names

Character/place/organization/etc names, titles, nicknames...the whole shebang.

Aile is the confirmed spelling for the leader of the Rotten Eggs (confirmed translation).

Archangelo is the confirmed spelling for our third named Maestro.

Esperanza C. Boroñal is the spelling for everyone's favorite Clown Count, as he is known around town. Alternatively called Count or Lord Esperanza, and fulfilling the role of governor.

Nicknames: Essie (instead of fan TL 'Essa'; the one he tells women to call him); and Speran (Elmer)

Trivia: His last name has alternatively been spelled Boronial and Boroñal in translations. Now...there's a character in the 2006 manga who has the same last name: Jacques-Rosé Boro[nial]. Narita has never explained this, so over on the wiki we deliberately spelled JRB's last name 'Boronial' to distinguish him. It'll stay that way unless Narita provides more info.

Dalton Strauss is Dalton's confirmed spelling.

Elmer's proposed nickname for him in the 4th color insert is Captain Dat.

Larolf Hancletia is the confirmed spelling of the Police Chief's name, the first name having been written as LaRolf in the fan TL (surname the same).

Monica Campanella is...nicknamed Moni-Moni by Elmer! (Occasionally 'Moni-Moni' has been written 'Monimoni', but the former has prevailed in the official TL).

Niki is Niki is not Nikki. no Nikkis here.

NeReNeReNeRenee is Elmer's proposed nickname for Renee. Oh, Elmer.

Zank Rowan is the confirmed spelling.

The Third Library is called, wait for it, the Third Library. However, Dalton's Special Archives are called the Special reference room in the official TL.

Remember how Huey referred to Renee as Maestra Parmedes in the YP release of Volume 10? Both Archangelo and Dalton are referred to as Maestro Archangelo and Maestro Dalton here; no special title is given to Dalton despite him being headmaster.

I don't think there was any doubt the serial killer would be named anything other than the Mask Maker, but to confirm: Mask Maker is their name.

Monica refers to the patisserie owner as 'Auntie'.

Elmer was known as the Calamity of Child and Light once upon a time.

Sorry for unsolicited opinion, but yahoo, I'm so glad! I loved how this sounded in the fan TL and wondered if the official TL would be different. Now I don't have to update the wiki.

General Notes

The devil’s coming, lantern lit. The devil’s coming, mask in place. Here to put a mask on you, Here with masks for every face.

--Official translation of the children's street song about the Mask Maker.

Chinese character choice: Esperanza wears a habit à la française with the Chinese character 火 (meaning 'fire') on its back. The original Japanese text uses the 火 character when talking about those who might recognize it, but Taylor Engel (YP translator) omits the character entirely: "If someone who knew had seen it, they would have recognized it as the Chinese character meaning “fire."

Begg's speech: The fan TLs emphasized that Begg is speaking at a rapid-fire pace by writinghisspeechlikethis, withnospacesbetween the words. There's no such visual cue in the official translation (digital edition, at least; need someone else to check phys. edition for me).

Still, even without the narration saying he's speaking "without pause," I think a reader will get the idea given how wordy and long Begg's dialogue is. It might not be an extreme visual opposite to how...h-he speaks...in 1932 at a glance, but it's nevertheless a stark contrast to Begg...when..we first....m-met........him so I'm sure the idea gets across well enough (and saves readers a headache along the way).

The official TL says that Lotto Valentino is located in the northwest area of the district which falls under the jurisdiction of Naples' viceroy (the fan TL said it was located in the northeast area).

During the passage talking about why the alchemy students can't have a public education, the fan TL takes on a more...specific tone whereas the official TL takes on a more speculative tone. ex) fan TL writes "Other reasons, among others, included someone who was visibly foreign..." whereas official TL goes, "Perhaps they were foreigners..."

The fan TL also says one student lives in the library and does odd jobs to earn a living whereas the official TL says some live in the library.

The official TL says that Lotto Valentino's young hoodlums started forming groups a 'few years ago'. As for the Rotten Eggs: the fan TL says that "there were rumors that, in addition to thievery and extortion, they even committed acts of piracy at merchant ships at night"--but the official TL doesn't say or imply these activities are mere rumor; it sounds like the Rotten Eggs do attack trading ships at night.

The fan TL indicates that the Rotten Eggs thug whose eyes Huey jabs is the same thug he kicks in the groin, but the official TL says Huey kicks another delinquent's groin. Does confirm later that the number of Rotten Eggs thugs involved was three.

Huey sits up to throw the potted plant rather than stand up (fan TL said he got to his feet).

Denkurō simply calls Zank 'Zank' in the official TL, not 'Master Zank' as in the fan TL (which the fan TLs do to emphasize he's speaking very politely/formally).

The official TL clarifies that there is always "just one witness at a time" when it comes to each Mask Maker murder.

The fan TL says "when [Huey] finally saw his mother a week later," which would make one think 'a week after he begged forgiveness', but the official TL's version is "until, on the day of the trial, he saw his mother for the first time in a week."

The official TL narrative writes Denkurō's name in the order "Denkurou Tougou," and I note this because the same translator wrote his name as "Tougou Denkurou" in that one color insert of Volume 5. I was told by someone else at the time that 'Denkurō Tōgō' would be the right order for an English publication, so...seems I can stick with that order after all.

Dalton says in the official TL that the drug is far stronger than that of opium.

Denkurō is the one who says the counterfeit gold and drug are thought to have been imported from Lotto Valentino, but Zank is the one who explains why Nile has come along; the fan TL attributed the Nile line to Denkurō.

Aile admits he wasn't just passing by when Elmer asks if he 'really' was (in the fan TL Aile says he 'was' passing by.)

Official TL confirms there are also "uncountable scars" covering Elmer's arms, not just his torso (notice that he was wearing a long-sleeved coat in the illustration; we've certainly never seen him wearing a short-sleeved shirt).

In the fan TL Larolf says Esperanza would be irritating even if he weren't a noble, but in the official TL Larolf says he wouldn't have trouble with Esperanza even if he weren't a noble.

The official TL specifically says that the triple-shot pistol Esperanza owns was created by 'Lorenzoni' and had been given to his family by a member of the Medici Family. I assume Lorenzoni is Michele Lorenzoni, an Italian gunsmith who lived in the 17th-18th century. Could Narita have been inspired by this three-barreled flintlock pistol, which was [potentially](https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O97137/flintlock-triple-barrelled- lorenzoni-michele/) made by Lorenzoni for Cosimo III de Medici or another Medici Family member (note: Lorenzoni supplied the Medicis).

Narita says in the afterword he bought a stiletto and old-fashioned pistol from Sankaido in Kamakura to use as reference materials.

The final scene with Begg and Niki takes place a few days before the last classroom scene with Elmer, Huey, and Monica, not "several days after."

MISC

Naritaverse Reference: For those who are reading this volume for the first time--the paragraph referring to "ancestors of a noble family on an island in the north of Prussia" is making a Vamp! reference. The island in question is Growerth (spelled Gloerse in Durarara!! Vol 3, different translator), Vamp!'s main setting. Not sure which family in this case, though; there's more than one possibility.

I can't help noticing that Huey in Vol 10 (official TL) says "Maestra Parmedes" when he thinks I guess I should call her the same way I always did, yet in this volume he's referring to her as Maestra Renee.

The official TL never capitalizes city police (i.e. never writes City Police) when referring to them.

The official TL always tries to refrain from 'gendering' the Mask Maker when the MM appears/is brought up. It calls the MM 'they' and 'it' and refers to the MM as a 'figure' rather than a [masked] man or woman.

The official TL translates the Italian name of the book Elmer's carrying into English (automatically; it doesn't include the original Italian); fan TL just had the Italian version.

Huey suggests Elmer wring out his coat, not his shirt.

On at least two occasions the Boroñal family is referred to as the House of Boroñal. Makes you wonder if House Dormentaire will be referred to as the House of Dormentaire by Engel in future volumes...

During the flashback to Niki meeting the Mask Maker one month ago: rather than suicide being something she couldn't have accepted for herself (fan TL), it seems at the time she'd simply not yet "thought far enough to realize that ending her own life was permitted for someone like her."

The official TL uses a different ridiculous spelling for Elmer's sneeze onomatopoeia every time and it's pretty great.

Whew, this has taken up quite a bit of time... I thought about sharing some of the official TL's versions of some of the more well-known quotes from this book, but I can add those in an edit + reblog. And any other things I overlooked/didn't include this first time around.

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Still attempting to do some art almost every day

Grashaft

Graham (butch)

Essa

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Don’t ask

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People will try to tell you baccano is about 1930s gangsters but they’re wrong. It’s about this one particular 18th century aristocrat and the drama of it all

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Day 3: Resilience and Adversity

I had a fic planned for this day but I didn’t finish it, so take this instead.

When a man kills people because of his sad backstory it’s pathetic at best but when Monica does it it’s good and righteous actually

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Family portrait (concerned)

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B! characters + Why Are You Haunted? (by Joan Tierney) because I can’t stop thinking about this

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bad photo but spiritual successor to that Niki + flower language drawing I did ages ago, this time with perhaps the rawest bit of flower language I’ve ever encountered thus far:

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I was thinking about how Esperanza just happened to meet Elmer while he lived with the church in Spain despite him being virtually an exile and surely feeling quite unwelcome there and it occurred to me that we know from 1711 that Esperanza is one of the only people in Lotto Valentino who sometimes goes to church for religious occasions, including All Souls’ Day, and I kinda wonder if the church Elmer lived with might have been the church where Esperanza’s parents were buried? Imagine once a year making the emotionally trying trip back to the home that shunned you in order to visit your parents’ graves and every single time you have to deal with this kid who keeps you up all night philosophising about happiness. on the one hand, incredibly insensitive, on the other hand, name a more comforting distraction 

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I’m currently reading Durarara Vol. 5, and Chikage Rokujou really gives off Esperanza energy, like I don’t know if Chikage does some heinous shit later on (in which case ignore this statement I don’t mean to disrespect Esperanza) but currently, I’m like he definitely got their respect women juice from Esperanza.