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[mitamicah]

This song hits hard - hvala Joker Out and hvala Bojan 🍉

(made two versions since I couldn't decide which lyric I felt the most fitting)

[jgfiles]

Hi! Can I just thank everyone who made watching the stage play possible? You're life savers haha also, was Jitsui's alias Artur Axmann? After a quick search, it says he's a real person who was the leader of Hitler Youth, which Hatano was assigned in (BUT if i remembered the alias wrong, forgive me and dont mind this haha). Speaking of Hitler Youth, research states kids up to 18 were recruited. To think Hatano passed off as a minor.

It would be an awesome idea to thank everyone who made watching the stage play possiblebut, truth to be told, the ones to thank for this are @great-blaster who ended up being the one who translated the whole thing and @szk-niina who was the first to share the raws, not me.

Though I still personally thank all the ones who still attempted to help me create a softsub version before the hardsubbed one was completed. Even though the project ended up being dropped because @great-blaster​ already made an awesome Joker Game the stage subbed version they’ve still been amazing to try their best to work at it.

As for Jitsui, no, his alias wasn’t Artur Axmann. We don’t know which fake identity he took.

I think what you’re talking about is this sentence.

“Leader Artur Axmannhas connections with Abwehr. He has spoken that it wouldn’t hurt to be cautious.”

This sentence is said by a First Lieutenant in the Hitler Youth (Hatano calls him chūi 中尉“(first) Lieutenant“)). The German correspective should probably be Oberleutnant.

Anyway, when the Lieutenant talks about Leader Artur Axmann, he’s talking of his own leader, the ReichsführerArtur Axmann, which, as you discovered was a real person and the leader of the Hitler Youth and not of Jitsui.

According to the Lieutenant, Axmannhad connections with Abwehr. What does this mean why is this relevant in reference to Jitsui and what was Abwehr?

Starting from the bottom the Abwehr was the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

In the anime isn’t said out loud (and I seem to remember the stage didn’t say it out loud either) but our dear Hermann Wolff, who’s investigating on Maki Katsuhiko/Miyoshi’s death, is a member of the Abwehr.

So fundamentally, since Wolff suspects Maki to be a Japanese spy he told Axmann to get rid of all the suspicious Japanese... which is why the Lieutenant wants Jitsui dead and wants Hatano to do the job so as to make sure he’s trustworthy.

And yes, the members of Hitler Youth could be, at most, 18.

Japanese people at the time were often perceived as younger than they were by Europeans due to various issues (they were usually shorter and the difference in physical characteristics as well as the general lack of knowledge on how they looked made harder to recognize their age correctly), so I guess technically it wasn’t that hard for Hatano to pass as younger.

In the stage this isn’t so obvious because, differently from the anime, Hatano is neither the smaller of the cast (he’s taller than Sakuma although he seems shorter than the other spies)...

...nor looks smallerthan the ones playing the role of the Germans (actually he seems taller).

Mind you, although anime Hatano is the shorter among the spies, he actually wasn’t tiny for an average Japanese of that time period, it’s just the other spies who are taller... still looks at the heigh difference between him and the French group, among which he was posing as an university student (and therefore older than 18 though not by many years).

With such a heigh difference for western people who aren’t familiar with Japanese features it would have been easy to be mistaken so yes, he probably could manage to look... let’s say around 17.

So yes, Hatano could probably pull it out but the stage didn’t quite bother to make this believable to viewers, probably because it is common knowledge among Japanese that westerns would view him as younger and therefore didn’t need to be visually depicted.

I hope it helps!