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Greyface

#493

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title} Back Chu Za Momoka (15)

1} (background) shake shake

2} Waaaaah

3} (panel) And this is how Momoka
M: Huh...? Couldn't be...
(background) there there

4} (panel) came to hate birds
M: I... changed the future...?

Mattthecat

Glad that she changed the future. We would have otherwise been deprived of many great moments :)
March 30

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And the start of something new...
#494 April 1

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Greyface

#494

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san

1} (side) I'm Takagi Reni, and business is slow at my seafood shop.
(flag) Takagi Seafood
(expression by Takagi's head) sigh
(sign, half-behind the curtain) (tr: dunno, maybe something like, "pond octopus" but I can't really read it)

2} R: You there, princess! You're cute so I'll cut the price for you!

3} S: Me?
R: Yeah yeah! You're very cute, y'know!
(wooden block) purple
(tr: signs above the wood, can't read most of them, but they should be things that Reni is selling, the far right is probably the last letter and a half of "shrimp" the middle MIGHT be clams, and the left... dunno? anything?)

4} S: I know
(bottom) booom

Mattthecat

#494 translated

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MizukiChan

I think the "Ojou-Chan" people often use refers to "Miss" or "Young Lady", not so much "Princess" lol

Greyface

^
Sure. I take tons of liberties in the translations, this was just another one.
It's a specific kind of familiar tone that an older man uses when "talking down" to a young woman or girl (even though they're strangers). Maybe it wasn't the clearest translation, but I was trying to get across a kind of difference between the way somebody would politely refer to another person, and the way Reni-Ojichan is taking liberties with Career-Woman-Shiori.

FWIW there are probably tons of things that can be done better in all these translations, but as much as possible I try not to put too much thought into them (because that's one of the causes of week-long back-logs) and save my head-wall action for the goddamn onomatopoeia.

Mattthecat

Yup. Most important thing is that the spirit and the meaning comes across

#495 April 3

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Greyface

#495

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san (2)

1} S: This is who I am.
(wooden block) fish
(above wooden block right) still probably shrimp
(above wooden block middle) still going with clams, but who knows
(above wooden block left) maybe bonito?

2} R: Sales staff Tamai-san...?
(card top line) Will assist in any business project
(card middle line) Tamai Shiori

3} S: You aren't by any chance having some difficulties?
R: Uhh, actually...

4} S: Understood... You'd like to know if anything can be done about your horsey face...
R: Didn't say nuthin' like that!!

Mattthecat

#495 translated

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#496 March 5

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Greyface

#495

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san (3)

1} R: My shop just hasn't gotten busy, y'know? It's all sighs
(over Reni) Haa...
S: For customers like this...
(by Shiori) rustle rustle

2} S: MomoKuroChan DVDeeee!!
S: If you watch this, the smiles never end!
(bottom) Ta-daaa

3} S: As long as you have a great smile, you'll get a lot of customers.

4} S: And what's more! This 5th MomoKuroChan DVD, "Start from GoodMorNight."* is...
S: ... on sale today, April 5th!
(by Reni) whoahhh
*KonbanYo (tr: You've heard it if you watch MomokuroChan or listen to their radio show)

Mattthecat

Oops. Made a mistake in numbering in my last post
So Greyface's above should be #496 as well

#496 translated

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#497 March 7

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Greyface

#497

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san (4)

1} I thought it was just a lie, but I tried out the MomoKuroChan box and...

2} It was really funny!
I really cracked up for the first time in a while
(background) hah hah

3} I kept grinning all the way through work!
And as a result, customers started coming!

4} Thank you... Saleswoman Tamai-san...!
(Shiori-side) Don't forget your smile...!

Showing once again, the value of emotional labor

Mattthecat

More labor ahead

#497 translated

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Mattthecat

#498 April 9

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Greyface

#498

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san (5)

1} I, Ariyasu Momoka, work at an import/export company.
Recently I'm so busy I just can't recover from my exhaustion

2} M: Ah, sorry
(background) Thump

3} S: Aaaoooww. You broke my arrrrm
(background) ow owwww
M: Eh, you're kidding! I'm sorry!!

4} S: Yup, just kidding
(background) Boooom

I guess she always enters with a boom.

Mattthecat

#498 translated

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#499 April 11

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Anniversary coming up

Greyface

Translation later... but this is the 2nd time that エラ came up with Ariyasu, and the first time I couldn't figure out what they were talking about (when 40-year-old Momoka was performing on the moon, I translated it as "gills"). I assumed it was some inside joke I had missed, but... now, a second time here... I had to do more research.

Apparently, it's the meat and skin around the base of the jaw (where it meets the neck) in women who have a square jaw. I'll figure something out for it when I actually do this comic, but... in case anybody else was wondering what the heck that was about on the moon? It was Ariyasu's meaty cheeks, not some future gill transplant technology.

Greyface

#499

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title} Saleswoman Tamai-san (6)

1} S: This is who I am
M: Saleswoman Tamai-san...?

2} S: I see, you're wondering if anything can be done about your heavy jaw, height, and poor enunciation...
M: I didn't say anything about that!!

3} S: Of course, those things are also part of your allure, right?
(above Momoka) heh heh

4} S: You don't deny it.

Mattthecat

#486 corrected

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#499 translated

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Mattthecat

#500 April 13

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