#longzu

[veoutsold]

Oh hey new Xia Mi art- WHY THE FUCK IS SHE BLONDE??

[solstice-eheheheh]

Edit flopped on TikTok 😞 anyways when making it I made sure to give chisei and chime the dying part 😁

[k0smik4t]

If the Dragon Raja series got popular in the west during the early 2010s, we would definitely have a ton of ship videos on YouTube with Cascada songs

[salustjm]

永不熄灭的黄金瞳。

[neruheart]

Today is Anjou's bday aa -random pics-

[1outofmymind]

I'm not a big fan of Dragon Raja, but i love one character: Von Schneider the Chu Zihang's mentor. For he's brave and courageous, way better that the lame coward of a main character we have in Lu Mingfei.

Here's about Schneider (use auto translate, if you don't speak Chinese):

Also some about him:

Schneider is a kind person. And he really cares about his student Chu Zihang (aka Johanny Chu in game), protecting him from the Cassell Schoolboard, whom he doesn't trust after the Greenland incident (in which he lost his students, assigned to mission, and got seriously injured). I think he's right.

🔽manhua version, but i prefer the game/anime more (above)

And my pic of him from the game:

[nourhost]

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[dragonrajafanfiction]

Dragon Raja 龙族

I am still waiting for the complete novel series. It's possible once that is released, I will write more straight longzu here.

In the meantime, I'm roleplaying Chu Zihang in FFXIV, just as a standard cross over character. I also have started RPing Lu Mingfei that is a crossover between Dragon Raja and Drakengard/Nier: Replicant.

So I'm still writing, but not on this platform currently.

If you would like to RP, just DM me. I'm Silverdew Rocio (Chu Zihang) and Red Dioh (Lu Mingfei) on Mateus server.

[syorinnnne]

Ada yang punya novel Dragon Raja (Lóngzú ) by Jiang Nan yang translate indo?

[mateuscosme]

[veoutsold]

Hi!!! I know I haven't posted Dragon Raja in a while, but I promise I haven't left the fandom.

I drew Xia Mi!

[exitstageleft-pursuedbyabear]

Official Dungeons and Dragons: Half elves and Half orcs are basically races of their own and they're predominantly (if not always) from humans.

Me, the DM:

[k0smik4t]

Wowie Zowie 😮

Game did not disappoint 

[hectab]

Dragon Raja and why everyone and everything always has a different name.

If you ever tried to read the manhua, play the game or watch the animated show and got confused by the constant changing of the names of the characters and the lore, I think you'd like to read this little essay.

Hi, I'm hectab, and for some reason I decided to translate Dragon Raja from Chinese to english a couple years ago, which has been strangely enjoyable, but also annoying in some ways.

You see, this is not unique to this franchise, I am aware, but when your Chinese property has a ton of international characters and keeps including real-world mythology from other cultures, you need to start making decisions, because things have different names in different cultures.

So, is your name Johann or...?

For starters, the name of the series is Long Zu (龙族) and it means something like "Dragonkind".

The editorial initially called it "Longzu: Eragon" and then they changed it to "Longzu: Dragon Raja"

Maybe they mixed "D" with "E"? Maybe they liked how it sounds, maybe they read the western Eragon books, who knows.

You see, Long Zu was never translated, it basically doesn't exist in the west, but it was huge in China, so much that they decided to make an expensive MMO based on the franchise, the results were so flashy that they went global and by 2020 it was nearly everywhere.

Now... Americans are used to a few Japanese words, but are they open to Chinese ones?

What about people that aren't familiar with anime and manga?

How do we market a guy called Chu Tianjiao? Screw it, we'll call him John.

So yeah, they localized a lot of it:

Funny thing, Luminous already has an American name in the books but there was no way they were going to call him Ricardo.

Then the devs decided to change how they call the characters and everything in the middle of the story, which made it even more confusing.

So why is this a problem? Just show people the graph, right? Yeah I guess, but for me the problem was...

The Manhua

First let's address the fan translation:

When I was translating the manhua, in order to avoid making decisions and offering explanations, I just kept the game names, but then I realized that by doing that, I shot myself in the foot, I'll give you an example:

You see, let's mention three not-so-random things from these books:

Caesar's skill: Lian You

A creature: The Kamaitachi

A clan of Japanese mobsters: The Oni

They called each of those things "Devils" (They technically are though).

So now we have three different things with the same name in english, and at some point I had to write stuff like:

"Caesar had to unleash his devils against the devils in the streets while running away from the devils."

Give me a break...

Caesar's name is its own mess, no one can decide how to spell it, even official sources from China contradict themselves, is it Caesar or Cesare?

The official translation of the manhua came out later, but even they decided to change how they call some things in the middle of the story...

Here are the manhua terms that I can recall at the moment:

Yanling

Ah... Yanling, the superpowers of the series.

I'll explain why Yanling, Ex.Skill, Soul Skill, Sacred Words and Kotodama are exactly the same thing and how the hell that happened:

Yan Ling means something like "the spirits of words" or "sacred words" and it is an ancient Chinese belief in words and names that withhold spiritual power.

You could also call them "magic words", "spells" or "sacred sounds" in western cultures and most importantly: Kotodama in Japanese culture.

That word, "Kotodama"...

Japanese arc, Japanese words!

You see, Jiang Nan is kind of a weeb, he's not hiding it, the franchise is heavily influenced by Anime and Manga, so he tends to take Japanese elements and translate them to their Chinese equivalent, be it culturally or merely linguistically.

For example: Caesar Gattuso's Yanling is called: "Lián yòu".

Lián yòu is the Chinese word for "Kamaitachi" which is a creature from Japanese folklore, three wind-devils with sickle claws that cut people.

In the original Chinese version they're called "Sickle Ferrets" but if you're translating it to english, should we call them that or do what the game did? "Wind devils".

But wait, since it's directly mentioned that they're from Japanese folklore, maybe we should translate it to Japanese as Kamaitachi.

Or maybe just leave it in Chinese as Lian You?

Now let's say you picked Japanese and called them Kamaitachi, should Yanling be changed to Kotodama then? Should I change Jiude Ya Ji to Sakatoku Aki? Should I change every name to their original culture's equivalent?

In that case the Sheqi Bajia should be changed to the Japanese Yamata no orochi instead of Eight-headed snake in english, but can you see? Right there you have three different ways to translate the exact same thing and they're all correct in their own way.

Other examples of this include:

I could go on for centuries, those were three books of Japanese stuff.

And then it came out, the...

Donghua / Anime

I don't know why, but the studio refuses to type the names of actual places. I'm not even talking about a translation, this is the original script in Chinese.

The characters clearly talking about China and America, but they never seem to type the actual names of those countries, just very similar-sounding ones... Why is that?

Anyway... That's the end of it.

Writing a wiki about this stuff sure must be fun, huh?

[neruheart]

One of the best scenes, can't change my mind

[nourhost]

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