Monday, November 01, 2004

School Rumble Episode 3 translation notes

Uh, yeah.

As body.

posted by ed at 7:47 AM

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THE THREE WERE KILLED
but that's okay, really.

In this episode, Tenma watches a TV samurai drama. The titles and characters portrayed are actually parodies of a real drama and its characters. The actual drama title: Zoku: Sanbiki ga Kiru (続・三匹が斬る - "Continuation - The Trio Who Killed"); and the parody drama title is Zoku: Sanbiki ga Kirareru (続・三匹が斬られる - "Continuation - The Trio Who Were Killed")

They've also parodied the main characters, but there isn't enough space to fit them here. I'll place a note onscreen when they appear, and you can pause to read them if you wish.


Real Character: Tono-sama (Feudal lord - 殿様), played by Takahashi Hideki (高橋英樹)
Parody character: Ue-sama (Shogun - 上様) played by Takahashi Hideki (高橋英鬼 - parody way of writing it)
　
Real Character: Sengoku (Thousand Rocks - 千石), played by Yakusho Kouji (役所広司)
Parody character: Mangoku (Ten Thousand Rocks - 万石), played by Yakushamaru Kouji (役舎丸広事 - also a play on kanji)

Real Character: Tako (たこ, written in hiragana, but can mean "octopus"), played by Shunpuutei Koasa (Spring-Wind-Mansion Little-Morning)
Parody Character: Ika (イカ, written in katakana, but can mean "cuttlefish"), played by Shuufuutei Koyoru (Autumn-Wind-Mansion Little-Night)




Ukiyoe 浮世絵
Literally, "pictures of the floating world". Originally, these were "mass-produced" prints created from carved wood blocks early in the 1600's, and initial subjects focused on the "entertainment" activities of those times, which is where the "floating world" in the name comes from. Over time, artists began to focus on depicting everyday life and nature in their prints, and colour printing techniques were also developed. Many Ukiyoe were used to illustrate books of that period.

The Ukiyoe "style", hence, is a style of picture that one can produce through a stamp-printing process. Nowadays, it's considered a part of Japan's cultural history and reproductions frequently appear on souveniers and postcards.





7:30
Obviously, Karasuma didn't actually PRINT his picture in the traditional way... but his picture follows the same art style

9:15
TV-Tokyo テレビ東京 / TV-Edo テレビ東都
This is another pretty silly parody. Edo is what Tokyo was called before the Meiji restoration. I suppose the Kanji can also be read as "Touto", but Edo seems more funny. >_>

9:35
Tenma is speaking in a rather archaic way, typically associated to how samurais talked.

21:29
Write in contribution from Roots: apparently this same setting and line was used in Jubei-chan many times. I've never seen Jubei-chan, so I don't know.

21:56
ハリケーン and 播拳
This is a play on Harima's name. The first characters of his last and first names put together is "Hariken", and "Hurricane" in katakana is "Harikeen". The onscreen text actually uses the Kanji for Harima's name, too.

November 1, 2004 at 7:54 AM  

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