A trip to Bread Island
This is a fairly surreal comic that H and Y wrote for the Quick Japan Halcali special issue (which featured interviews I translated a few months back). Any clue what's going on in that last frame?(!)
TRANSLATION (read left to right)
1: The story of the trip to Bread Island
2:YUKARI "Look, i'm skipping!"
3:HARUKA "Amazing!"
4:Y "What kind of dogs do you like, Haruka?"
H "I like Shiba's"*
Y "I like Chiwawa's"
5:"Woof woof woof woof"
6:H "It's a Shiba! Let's catch it!"
Y "Yeah!"
7:H "Let's give it a name"
Y "Chibi"
8:H "Goodnight, Chibi"
9: In a strange plot development, Yukari has suddenly become the owner of a flower shop...
10:...and Haruka is selling ice-cream, shouting "It's delicious!"
11: ?!
*I don't actually know what a Shiba is, so I don't know how to translate it into English. It's written in hiragana, which suggests it's a Japanese breed of some kind.
posted by jariten at 7:34 AM
9 Comments:
Well I have Nintendogs for the DS (virtual puppy simulator)and the Shiba is one of the breeds for the Japanese game-it look a little like a husky,only orange.I think I've seen a picture of Halcali playing on DS's somewhere so maybe thats why they mentioned it.
4:32 PM
A Shiba is a type of Japanese dog.
There are a bunch of different sizes, each has their own name.
Big ones are called 'Akita',
Mid-sized ones are called, 'Kishu, Hokkaido, Shikoku or Kai'
and the little ones are Shiba....
the toy version is called a Mameshiba (like Maaya Sakamoto's song 'Mameshiba'...in the video she's chasing a little puppy around.....)
There's a good site here: http://www.shibas.org/
it's english too!
(I have nintendogs too :P, but the daschund version)
7:56 PM
Oh...and the last frame looks like HALCALI and Chibi riding a turtle...
Why not, eh?
*thanks for the scans btw....awesomeness...hehehe*
7:59 PM
So it's spelt with an 'i', not an 'e'? I'll change it (I was just copying directly from the hiragana). Nintendogs saves the day (again?)! Thanks for the information guys. A thing I really like in that comic is their picture of the bed. They started to draw little flowers on it but gave up halfway through.
12:41 AM
It is spelt with an I.....(isn't that hiragana SHI?....
"Haruka, inu nani ga suki?"
"Atashi Shibaken."
"Atashi Chiwawa."
...or is my Japanese broken?)
I laughed at the picture of the bed too...well..I laughed at all of them...hehehe
:P
3:47 PM
No, your Japanese is fine, it's mine that was wrong...
6:09 AM
Hi there agin, Jess here;
Just wondered, if anyone could possibly scan the album fonr and back covers for Ongaku no Susume, please?
Thanks Muchly.
2:59 PM
The new cover or the old?
12:40 AM
Both please :)
Regards ;
Jess
3:11 PM
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