Jewelpet Delay

It was pointed out to me that it would be a good idea to make posts like this when needed.

Our translator for Jewelpet has been very busy lately with some important life matters so there wont be another episode until about the middle of May. Sorry for the delay of any announcements about this.

Jewelpet Sunshine – 23

jewelpet23_001_9299You don’t wanna miss a thing, especially not this episode! Torrent | DDL

Throughout most this episode, mostly the A Part, the phrase “sungoi” is used. This is a major pain in the ass of a word that has both negative and positive connotations. We used the words “terrible” and “terrific” where applicable.

In the B Part, Iruka-sensei and Ruby are both singing a song called “火の用心のう” which roughly translates to “Beware of Fire Song”, it seems to be a nursery rhyme that students would sing during fire drills. They made up some lyrics of their own too, to make sure it was as fun as possible for us to transcribe, of course!

Jewelpet Sunshine – 21

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Don’t forget your summer homework, guys. Torrent | DDL

The insert song that plays during the B part, “Talk Show” by Tetsuwan Miracle Babies, is actually the theme song of a show by the name of “Neltun Club”. It was a late night talk show hosted by a comedy duo called “TUNNELS” featuring various couples, sort of like a Japanese Newlywed Game. The series is referenced several times throughout the series, so I felt it was worth explaining.

Jewelpet Sunshine – 19

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Translating this episode was quite the adventure. Torrent | DDL

A few TL notes:

Two of the names Nejikawa gets called in this episode are puns. Funekawa (fune = ship) and Yarikawa (yari = arrow). We chose to put “Frigatekawa” and the rather self-explanatory “Arrowkawa” for this.

At the 11 minute mark, Shouko makes a (really bad) joke about gessori (げっそり, disheartened) and geso (げそ, squid tentacles) sound alike. We hope you guys like squid puns!

Shortly after this, Shouko uses the phrase bukkomu (打っ込む, brawl/hit, usually in a fistfight) and then uses it again to describe herself. We conveyed this by using scrap/scrappy.