Every once in a while, the manga throws a curve ball that even us translators miss. In this chapter we learn that Birdy and Tsutomu (and by extension Megius and the other police) think that Revi is a man. Readers of course know by this point that Revi is female. However, as translators, we made the mistake of thinking that everyone knew Revi was a woman and thus we have had everyone refer to her as “she” in past chapters. From now on this will be fixed and the good guys will call her “he” while the bad guys call her “she.”
For those of you interested in how we made this mistake, I'll tell you. In Japanese, the pronouns “he” and “she” are almost never used. Instead the person's name will be used once, and from then on, the subject won't even be mentioned again. Thus there is no need to say he or she. And us translators just cry.
Birdy the Mighty Volume 04 Chapter 01
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Birdy the Mighty Volume 04 Chapter 01
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Thanks for Birdy!
all hale 2big for the gift of birdy
I can feel your pain... Japanese is structured so entirely differently from English that there's a lot of things like this that are hard to catch... so, out of curiosity, how did you catch this one? Hm... trying to use my OpenID from my wordpress-powered site and it's not working btw.
Just a small heads up...
I just happened to compare chapter 1 to my volume of the manga and noticed that page 24 was left out.
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