Wednesday, August 19, 2009

GetBackers -Shuura no Gag Dou Part 2

English Translation:

Shuura no Gag Dou
Kakei Juubee Mushashugyou
Dainibu- Hi no Maki
Shuugyou Hen
Part 2



Translator's Notes :
For best effect, try reading this script while listening to the actual tracks. It makes much more sense that way. There are far more bad jokes in this installment than in the last, hence much more bits that make absolutely no sense in English. I left the original lines in above the translation where a translation alone would fail to convey the meaning. Bad puns ahead, essentially.

I left in a few common suffixes, -chan, -kun, -dono, etc.

Ban's way of speaking contains a few.. unsavoury words, to put it mildly. Since I wasn't up to researching Japanese swear words, I made do where need be.

The scene transition is a clip of Akabane chanting "Inochi" which means Life. This is also the first line of his image song, Shi no Jundou.

The narrator's lines are still incredibly odd.

Fighting on the path of Gag - Kakei Juubei's Samurai Training - Second Part - Book of Training

*Someone running* ~~
Person : Duel!!
*Crowd noises*
Juubei : Warriors who would pursue and ambush from downwind, I would hear your names before punishing you.
Ban : Hmph.. You alone? Midou Banjuurou and Amano Ginjisai take on anyone going to the capital.
Ginji : Doesn’t really matter if you go there or not, but you can't choose your enemies, right?
Juubei : Is that all you've got to say?
Ban : What did you say?
Ginji : Let's get him, Ban-chan?
Ban : Alright. You'll be hurtin' like a bitch once we beat ya..
Juubei : Kakei Juubei challenges you!
Ban : Just watch this.. Undojo tsukatte ii? (Can I use your dojo?)
Ginji : Un! Doujou! (Sure! Help yourself!)
Juubei : Hn. Is that it?
Ban and Ginji : What?!
Juubei : Uwabaki ga tondekita. Wabaki! Kenchuu soya, usoya! Shumi wa shugee deshi, sugee.. Zukan ga ochita, zugon! (My slippers flew away! Rustic Unbleached Silk! No way! My hobby is crafts, awesome.. The picture book fell, bang!)
Ban : Not even close to laughin'...
Ginji : *Laughing* Slippers, he said...
Ban : Dammit! Don't laugh! *Smacks him*
Juubei : Worry not... It was the flat of the blade.
Ban : SHIT!!!
Ginji : We’ll remember this!
*They run away*

Juubei : Yowaki inu hodo yoku hoeru. Soko ni inu wa iru ka. Inu! Uchi no obaa-chan wa ine.
(Even weak dogs can bark. Is there a dog over there? No! Not my grandmother.)
*Crowd laughs*
Random person : Incredible! He beat them!

*Apart from the action*
Kazuki : Juubei... I have followed you...

*Juubei training*
Juubei : Tai ga tsuruta! Kore wa amedetai! Saki ga suru, saki kara. Kouchou-sensei de kocho!
(The sun is shining! But it's raining! The cape was there, since then. The vice-principal is blushing!)

*Much later*
Juubei : What am I doing wrong? I can't be confident with skill like this! My victory was empty...

Kazuki : *hidden* Juubei, no matter where you go, I'll follow you like your own shadow...
*He notices something and gasps* Ah! It's them...

Ban: Hey!
Juubei : You guys.
Ginji : You thought you had us pretty embarassed back there, didn't you?
Juubei. Heh. The defeated gradually become one with the darkness, losing the right to be called warriors. Begone! Get out of my sight!
Ginji : You mean, run?
Ban : Shut the hell up!!!
Ginji : We're gonna get you!
Ban : Snake Bite Special Attack Super Violent stomach rumbling!
Juubei : Argh! This is...
Ban : 999% of my victims get rumbled so hard their guts twist up!
Juubei: What did you say? *Laughs*
Ginji : Allright! Now my turn!
*Electrified Juubei laughter*
Ginji : Electric Roar of Laughter Strike! Like a river hitting a dam, the roar of laughter floods you up 100% and then you end up dead!
*Juubei is laughing uncontrollably*
Ban : Hn. Actually, you just go to sleep.
Kazuki : Juubei!
*Juubei collapses*
Ginji : Now that was our sure kill technique. It completely destroys all enemies with laughter and is known as Underground Gag Technique.
Juubei : *Shocked* This too is Gag?
Ban : You call it Gag, but it ain't that clear cut. Now you should back off before you get hurt more!
Kazuki : Juubei!
Juubei : Wait! Please, teach me that technique!
Ban : What did you say?
Ginji : Isn't it shameful to beg for your life like?
Juubei : No! I have an opponent that I must defeat regardless of the cost!
Ginji : Ban-chan, what do we do?
Ban : Interesting. Then come on, we'll lead ya. To where that person is.
Juubei : That person?
Ginji : Yeah. The top line of Underground Gag Technique, Dr. Jackal.
Ban : Even Nobunaga and Prime Minister Hideyoshi fear this brand of underground Gag! (*)
Juubei : Ohh!
Ban : It's rare for that person to take on students. Are you ready to cross over to be taught by Dr. Jackal?
Kazuki : Juubei..

(Scene Change) Akabane chanting : Life...

Akabane : You are the one who wishes to receive the gift of my art?
Juubei : Yes. I am named Kakei Juubei.
Akabane : I am Akabane Kuroudo. I am not taking pupils.
Juubei : Please!
Akabane : Are you the type of man who can do nothing more than beg on your knees? Well, it can't be helped. Shall I decide after hearing some of your lines?
Juubei : Here I go! Ikasumi de udon wo konetara kuro udon. Kuchi ni ooku na doubutsu wa aa, kaba, ne? (A popular brand of noodles are black noodles. An animal with a big mouth is a hippopotamus, right?)
*Akabane smacks/slices him*
*Juubei laughs*
Ban : What an idiot.
Ginji : After being hit by Jackal's tools, it takes about a week to stand up again, right?
Akabane : Is that bad? At any rate, his rural Gag must be eliminated. He will need dedication.

(Scene Change) Akabane chanting : Life...

Akabane : Top line Underground Gag. It is best used as an implement for direct attacks. Juubei-dono, please test your flying needle attack on these two as much as you desire.
Ginji : Eh? Why on us?
Ban : Hn. Interesting. Wanna end up dead?
Juubei : Well, please excuse me.
*Impact noise*
Ginji : Ugh.
Juubei : It hit.
Ginji : *Choking, struggling*
Juubei : Ginjisai-dono, can you breathe?
Ban : Oi!
Tare!Ginji : Thanks a lot!
*Shock all around*
Tare!Ginji : Hoe! Hoe!
Ban : That hit turned the moron into a tare!
Juubei : One more shot!
Ban : Oof!
Tare!Ban : Wow, that was delicious! What is this new feeling called?
*Both Tare babble on for a bit*
Akabane : Really, now, this isn't pretty! Looks like there is only one option.
*Much slicing*
*Juubei laughs*
Akabane : Dedication is important in humans.

Kazuki : Juubei.. Is it right to go this far for laughter?

Narration : Catastrophe at the Palace. Excitment is half evil. Temptation. Such is the dark scent that hangs in the air where these people stand. Now that he has stepped into the underworld, Juubei will find that he cannot return the serene days of his youth. Time flows by.

*Crowd noises*
Random guy : They ran without paying! Arrest them!
*Needles being thrown*
*Victim laughs*
*Rushing footsteps*
Ginji : Juubei-kun, you've gotten really skilled!
Ban : Thanks to you it's gotten really easy to eat without paying!
Juubei : It's you two who are doing all the work!
Ban : Your training sure paid off. You make a great ally for us.
Ginji : We'll do lots more eating and running together, won't we?
Juubei : Aa! Getting food the honest way just doesn't taste as good!

Kazuki : Juubei... You have fallen far.
Emishi : Hold it. You three, don't you know it's bad to eat without paying?
Ginji : Who're you?
Ban : Is there someone who hasn't heard about us?
Emishi : You're the hoodlums who call themselves Underground Gag, aren't you? You seem pretty well known lately, but in the end the underground is still the underground.
Ginji : What was that?
Ban : Hn. Interestin'. How about a little match?
Emishi : A match might not be so good for you.
Ban : Oh yeah? Snake Bite!
Emishi : Horo hara here herepo horarame pyon!
*Ban and Ginji start to laugh*
Ban : We lost.
Ginji : We've been conquered, haven't we, Ban-chan?
*They collapse*
Juubei : What? This attack...
Emishi : Well then... Only one of the three left?
Juubei : Ah! Damn you!
*He attacks*
Emishi : Hmm. This is the wrong way to make someone laugh.
Juubei : What?!
Emishi : Hen pero hore haremi horee!
*Juubei laughs and collapses*
Emishi : This is the top when it comes to laughter.
Juubei : Please wait! Tell me your name!
Emishi : Emishi Harkukinojo. Well, it's no problem just to give my name.
Juubei : Emishi... Harukinojo.
Kazuki : Juubei...
Juubei : Kazuki! You...
Kazuki : I'm sorry. I knew I shouldn't have followed you. I couldn't stand it. I got so tired of watching you fall into the ways of the Underground Gag. But, it'll be allright now, right? You made a mistake but... Never mind. Let's go back to the village.
Juubei : Let go.
Kazuki : Juubei!
Juubei : I told you... I can do nothing else to protect you. It'll be like this only until I am free to return to my former path! Sensei! Harkinojo-sensei!!!
*He runs off*
Kazuki : Juubei!

Narration: Base materialism upon a Mandala. Youth is like running through a war zone. Lose your grief! Then live on. There is no clear path before you. There can be a path made behind you. No one can take your path away from you.

(*) Nobunaga and Hideyoshi : This is a reference to Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who in the late 1500s won many a conquest in the service of Nobunaga Oda, a rather infamous daimyo. Hideyoshi eventually became Taiko, or Prime Minister, of all Japan. The era is the same as that of this drama, being the end of the warring-states period, making this ancient history current in the context of this drama. Interestingly enough, Hideyoshi was known to be extremely ugly, and often refered to as "saru" or Monkey...

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