Azure Gleam - Misc. Support Translations
Here’s some other tiny support translations from Azure Gleam. Nothing comprehensive, just things I found either amusing or interesting :) I want to keep this one lighthearted in tone. Also, last time I used hyperlink within the post, it created this weird thumbnail that looked awful, so if you want to look any of this up, just check out the Hopes FE Datamine that I will link in a comment.
1.) Ingrid/Sylvain
The scene begins like this in the English version:
Sylvain: ...
Ingrid: That was quite the sigh. What's the matter, Sylvain?
Meanwhile, the Japanese has this extra part to it:
Sylvain: Sigh...
Ingrid: Oh? What’s going on, Sylvain? Sigh like that…and you’ll get more wrinkles.
lmao love the cheeky banter, especially with the smiling Ingrid portrait. Also, for anyone else who is a sucker for Faerghus 4's dynamics, there's this difference too. First, English:
Sylvain: Felix and Dimitri both succeeded their fathers. They're now burning the candle at both ends, right?
Sylvain: I can't go around causing trouble with unending scandals when I'm supposed to be the mature one of the bunch.
Here's the Japanese translation:
Sylvain: Both His Majesty and Felix have succeeded their families and are toiling away...
Sylvain: It's pathetic if I, the older brother, annoy those guys so much with my stupid misconduct, isn't it?
Responsible big bro Sylvain strikes again, although the word he uses to refer to Dimitri and Felix (あいつら 'aitsura') is a really colloquial and informal/rough way to say 'those guys' or 'those people', heh.
2.) Dimitri/Yuri
When the scene begins, we see the following exchange between Yuri and a child in the English version:
Yuri: Everyone is strangely abuzz today. Is there a visiting minstrel or a mummer's troupe?
Child: Haven't you heard, mister? A funny knight's been coming to town recently!
Here's the Japanese version:
Yuri: What’s going on? The town is oddly noisy today. Are the bards even showing up?
Child: Big bro Yuri [literally ‘Yuris-nii-chan’], don't you know? There's been an interesting knight in town recently.
Nii-chan is an affectionate way to address one’s older brother. I like this more, as it shows how Yuri is actually familiar to the people in that small town!
3.) Dimitri/Rodrigue
Aka the puppy zone 🐶 For a certain u/Set_of_Dogs :>
Here's the English version for the two times he talks about Matthias returning Lambert's sword:
Rodrigue: What sort of laggard keeps a loan so long he has to return it to the lender's son? Thirty years!
and
Rodrigue: I suppose I can hardly poke fun at Matthias for holding onto that sword all those years, can I?
Here's the two Japanese translations:
Rodrigue: Returning a sword he borrowed 30 years ago, now that it's the generation after ours [literal translation: children's generation]. He's quite the lazy person, that guy.
Rodrigue: Hahaha, I can’t laugh at this Matthias guy for being a slacker, can I?
'Laggard' is actually a really neat translation choice imo! However, the Japanese makes it more explicit about him referring to the fact that Matthias is lazy which is a really cute parallel with Sylvain haha. Also, Rodrigue always uses formal speech with Dimitri, but when he refers to Matthias specifically, he uses the informal/familiar/derogatory 'aitsu' word that Sylvain uses above. Also he calls Matthias マティアスの奴('Matthias no yatsu'), which is sort of like 'that Matthias fellow' essentially. Using '-no yatsu' with someone you don't know is seen as rude and demeaning, but since Rodrigue is friends with Matthias, it's more of a playful rib.
Rodrigue using that phrasing when talking about the Margrave is pretty different from the more formal speech he uses with Dimitri, which gives the feeling that how he talks to Matthias is seeping through (the scene where Rodrigue and Matthias talk after the Sreng paralogue shows a more casual grammar mode Rodrigue). If you play AM and are on Chapter 16, he refers to Lambert as 'Lambert no Yatsu" in his explore dialogue too! There's something bittersweet about him using that familiar nickname for Lambert when speaking to Byleth, as if Lambert never passed :(
4.) Extra Rodrigue Note
This isn't something exclusive to one support and doesn't have an English equivalent so I won't bother with any English. There's a Japanese suffix 殿 ('dono') that is used to convey respect to authority figures. If you watch enough anime, you might be familiar with '-sama' which is a rung above '-dono' and is still used today (Rhea is referred to as 'Rhea-sama' in the game). '-dono' on the other hand is a lot more archaic sounding and it's never used in Japanese speech anymore, just in writing for some documents.
A translation that you can use for '-dono' is that it's equivalent to 'lord' or 'master'. Again, it's never used in regular Japanese speech. However, it is used in historical media like a samurai series or a fantasy property like Fire Emblem. If you explore the monastery on the Gautier inheritance chapter, Ingrid and Dedue will both refer to Rodrigue as 'Rodrigue-dono'. On other chapters, when Felix is talking about his dad, he refers to him as 'oyaji-dono', with 'oyaji' being somewhat of a crude way to refer to a dad or older men (sort of like 'my old man'), which has a super funny contrast with the formal '-dono', LOL.
In the Japanese fandom, for whatever reason, people have really clung on to calling Rodrigue by the title of 'Rodrigue-dono' which is funny because how formal it sounds despite it being used by people casually talking about a video game on the net LOL. An example of this is something like "Rodrigue-dono keeps rushing into these other units during Felix's paralogue on Maddening 😥". From what I've seen, no other character gets the '-dono' treatment in the fandom like Rodrigue does despite Dimitri calling Gilbert 'Gilbert-dono' on the same chapter for instance. It's an endearing nickname for him.
The reason I'm bringing all this up in a post about Three Hopes translations is that in Three Hopes, the developers made the choice to have Rodrigue now refer to all the other Blue Lions with '-dono', from Shez to Sylvain to Dedue LMFAO. It's just super funny coming from this dude who is at least two decades older than most of the cast and is/was a man of noble standing, one who was probably the second biggest figure in Faerghus after Lambert or Rufus. It comes off as him being self-assured enough to use more formal titles with the cast despite his age and experience :) qt dad vibes LOL
Posted May 10, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC