#half ass translation with google lens

[iceclew]

Ok, so with the help of google of course:

Honestly at this point I basically think they are just flirting..

Hibino Kafka:: August 5th, height 181 cm

Favorite THings Defence Force, Curry, hamburger  alcohol, tobacco (i’ve been holding back since i started aiming for the defence force)

Sohiro Hoshina

birthday: november 21 th

height: 171 cm

hobbies: reading, coffe, mont blanc

Hoshina: Kafka, what are you, ..that belly? *laughs*

H: “My favorite foods are  curry, hamburgers, and alcohol. That’S how it will be 😀

Kafka: Hee! D:

Kafka: Please be prepared for the vice-captains who are over 30 years old…!

Hoshina: I’m training properly. In the first place, I won’t be like you because my lifestyle is different. You can’t just eat Mont Blanc just because you like it (xD uh ok)

H: I’m going to have a little bit of something nice, but do you have adult tastes?

H: Hibino SeN Pai 

Kafka: I can’t say anything back!

Hoshina: HiBiNo SenPai.

H: you, Pepe (xD I’m sure that ones wrong, but I don’t care), are going to beat me. That’S a 100 years early.

H: HUrry up and pull your stomach in.

K: Katchin (?)

K: Man! Let me learn about the lifestyle of vice captain hoshina, gyo-san!

K: if we decide to do that, we’ll start with the vice captain’S room.

K:Can you show it to me ( I ..guess..)

H: Huh! what is that Kansei dialect? Why is that so?

H: Come on. Go away!

K: No I will study 🙂

H: seriously, this guy

H: Are you really going to  follow me?!

K: I’ll foloow you wherever you go! 🙂

K: i want to flatten my stomach!!

H: shit shit

H: troublesome guy, provoke me..

the official kaiju no.8 twitter has started a new segment called #防衛隊のひと休み (taking a break from the defence force)! no idea if its weekly but it’s funny ^_^

[stellacaerulea]

I didn't think I'd get jumpscared by anything in this event (other than that stretched ass cat) but I did

So, I clearly don't know Chinese despite playing TW half-religiously, but I'm also a bitch for the lore so occasionally that means I'm looking at the PC screen through my phone so I can translate the text with google lens as I play

Which means most of the time what's on my field of view is this

Which is fine, what is relevant for me in such moments is the text so I was fully concentrated on it, but eventually my attention must return to the full game screen so I can move on to the next scene

This time, though

this is what met me

[peevishpants]

your outfitober art is amazing! the outfits youve made for all of them are so fun and well designed and thoughtful, i wish my wardrobe was that well put together. your art in general is beautiful, too, i love the way you handle colors and your art style is just gorgeous!

and speaking as someone whos chinese but isnt. really ingrained into the culture (or at least. not into mainland stuff i guess? idk) im staring politely at your more recent outfitobers lol, which ngl id love to see in a scifi movie?? (also the white rabbit candy ones—those designs are really fun, and i remember my family used to sell those in our store when i was a kid, so theyre honestly nostalgic for me)

i also love the ocean and reef dweller ones—love the way you incorporate the irl inspiration into their designs and how creative and fashionable they are (actually this counts for all of them lmaoo i think i can safely say i love all your outfitober designs <3)

sorry this was pretty long! you dont have to answer lol

woowahhhh weewoh thank you so much!! so cool that your parents used to sell white rabbit candy, I wonder if they experienced the White Rabbit Scandal of the 2000s, from Chinese milk product contaminations!

I also happen to be someone who is Chinese but isn't particularly immersed into the mainland culture - I'm diaspora born in Canada, so a lot of the folklore and culture elements in my designs come from a more reverent or academic lens - my actual Chinese comprehension skills are rather shabby so a lot of primary Chinese sources aren't accessible to me. I've recently been getting more into Chinese culture thanks to the glow-up of Chinese Animation industry, and started reading up on old chinese folklore, though my sources are usually translations or analysis/commentary written by white people (or other asians, in english) - there's no way I'm reading Shan Hai Jing in Chinese those tomes are inscrutable EVEN in english (and like half of it is just geographical records)

Actually let me talk about the headache that is shan hai jing because I did try to read an English version a while ago. It's a big ass collaborative google doc from 2200 years ago that's sort of become an almanac or encyclopedia of Things and Society and Myths in Ancient Asia. There are 18 volumes and no they are not neatly separated by subject, they are instead sorted by region. There's no convenient list of all the mythical beasts mentioned in it. The juicy mythological and cultural bits are directly EMULSIFIED with the boring government surveyor information like "there is xyz mountain and on it, xyz plants. also here lies the xyz beast with human face and a tail like a snake. eating it will make you never be jealous again. 10 miles east of xyz is the mountain abc. the mountain is not climbable. there are strange beasts here with horns. 12 miles east-" FOR HUNDREDS OF PAGES. I wish I could go back in time and interrogate the authors. Like sir did you see a deer? Are you describing a deer? Do you think deer have human faces? Are you making this shit up?

Also I love getting these messages btw I can feel your sincerity and it honestly makes my day!! (And also it is a great soapbox for me to just gripe about a tangentially related thing LOL)

[kingsandbastardz]

YESSSSS you're watching it! Are you watching on youtube or their platform? On youtube, they apparently went back and updated the subs? And the first episode which had originally been watchable became WORSE. Like the hilarity of the cliff scene used to be translated correctly:

Swordswoman crying: "Why is the cliff so high?"

Tools and traps dude, incredulous: "Because it's a cliff."

But the other episodes became at least readable, though it's up in the air whether they're accurate or not. (Sometimes they are, sometimes they disappear completely... I hope either a fansubber or some other service picks it up and puts real subs on it, because this is a show that both needs and deserves it.) You know it's bad when an illiterate Cantonese speaker with google lens and some half-remembered mandarin/canto wombo-combo can do a better job figuring out what they're actually saying than whatever half-assed machine they used to translate this.

OOOHh.... Right. And FYI I can't remember if they're placed before or after the end credits -- but in case it's after, sit and watch the additional mini stories because they deal with the characters' pasts and gives much context to why they are the way they are in the present day.

lmao ALSO --- yeah being that they're MangoTV subs, I wouldn't have recced this if you hadn't mentioned your mandarin was decent enough to get through part of an episode at least. The 3 leads are so charming somehow -- the actors are good enough I wish they'd get better projects because I think they have a good sense of comic timing and emotional delivery -- their range is really solid for the amount of code switching they have to do from scene to scene and they manage to keep it consistently balanced.

Started watching 我有一个朋友 (Be With You, 2023) after @kingsandbastardz recc'd it and it's hilarious!

I've met three of the main characters 1½ eps in and i love them. They've each of them yeeted themselves off a cliff to escape their particular problems (who are all standing at the top and bidding for the return of each one of them for increasingly absurd sums of money) and these three make a pact.

I am living for this stuff. Delicious.

The subs? Not so.

Please look:

装神弄鬼 means to do a little hocus pocus, make simple things appear mysterious. It doesn't mean 'play a ghost', Mango Tav. Can you not? 🥲

Anyway. The episodes are short and perfect and because I can get a decent amount of the dialogue without the subs, I don't mind that they suck. Though ofc I'd prefer it if they got better ones.

Thank you @kingsandbastardz ! Great rec!