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Got a message from today from czeliate
The Sleepyfans translation at OneManga is out and uses this translation of what Aizen said.

Binktopia, who translates currently for mangastream, is given to making these sorts of jokes. I'll never forgive them for the line they gave Ishida as Nemu's boobs were about to smother him. Ishida really said "Too close! Too close!" and they translated the line as "Why am I suddenly craving dairy?"

Some people really like Binktopia's jokes and Westernized translations and added ... um... flourishes to the original text, but I'm not one of them.They've sent fandom into circles before--when Urahara opened the garganta for Chad, Ishida, and Ichigo at the beginning of this arc, Binktopia translated the scenario as one where Urahara was going to join the boys on the journey. There were lots of disappointed fans when the real translations came out.

In this case, maybe some of those Aizen introduced Masaki to Isshin mad theories can be put to rest. I've heard some crazy speculation--such as Aizen manipulating Rukia to make her carry the guilt of Kaien (even though these events took place before Ichigo's birth). People were getting a little out of control. And those in fandom who were moaning about the ultimate troll being unbelievable (most of us here at bleachness didn't believe Aizen or Binktopia's line), chillax already?

eta: to murk the waters, CNET is using the "planned" word: Aizen: So this... // ...is your reiatsu. // Splendid. // You have grown well. // Just as... // ...I always planned.

czel explains how the word can't be planned here

Have fun, fandom. I knew you'd go insane with speculation. But there's just no way that Aizen is writing Kubo's story. He's the villain, not the protagonist. He's not Light Yagami. He's using the purdy words on you as well as Ichigo and I dislike watching you both squirm.

I don't know any more Japanese than course one of a Rosetta Stone software program and the Jimmi's Book of Hiragana I bought for my daughter when she was five.

I do have some experience as a professional translator in Hebrew and Spanish, and I believe I can make qualified judgements as to bullshit and what's much ado and what's a tempest in a teapot and what's fandom wank.

Repeat: I do not know Japanese.

But I do know translation wank when I see it.

( But I know Wank When I See It )( But I know Wank When I See It )

I love Kaya. bananakaya  , that is.



Please don't miss this week's entry of Oh Bleach Me!




And guess what I found out yesterday! Annie explained it all to me! Orihime has never been in the FIFTH TOWER. This Drake fellow who does the Thai translations of Bleach explained that Orihime has always been in the "FIVE TOWERS" just as in the chapter title of this week.
So the chapter did refer to a geographical location and sorry Neha, there go our dreams for those columns representing a crash landing by a certain Quincy with a flair for dramatic entrances.

Manga-Rain is the slowest translator of Bleach but the best and I fault myself for not always reading their scanlations or even downloading them. I missed something important! Ju-ni is my favorite translator because of their purported accuracy, non-stilted style, and promptness, but.....THEY MADE A BIG BOO-BOO IN CHAPTER 199!

A friend who is a Crusader for Accurate Translation alerted me to the error and then posted this in BA:

Matsumoto, contrary to popular belief, NEVER said that Orihime and Ichigo HAVE A BOND


Ju-nI, to their credit, has leapt to say that this translator is now gone and that the current translator will repair this error and others.
Me, I'm just beating myself up because I never read the correct translation and in discussions always acquiesced to the idea that this chapter was a prognosticator of Orihime's becoming more and more important to Ichigo in future chapters--because Matsumoto, who must know SOMETHING, said so. I remember that when I first read the scene, I thought that I was being HUGELY biased by first thinking that Matsumoto MUST be lying to just be kind to Orihime (I knew that Rukia was more impt to Ichigo, that Mats knew this, that her coddling Hime with this stuff about Orihime's "bond" with Ichigo--apparently made up out of the blue by translator--seemed out of keeping with Mats' bold, upfront character).

Then I went along with the popular idea that Mats was telling Hime that all of Ichigo's friends were important to him and that she would be too.

KLUNK!  The truth is better. The truth has Matsumoto saying "At least you're tackling it and dealing with it on your own.  Don't you know? It's always easier to simply run away from your problems. You've tackled your feelings instead of running away. That's already very admirable, Orihime."  Way to go, Mats!  Not a word about how Orihime is worthy because she's worthy to Ichigo. The pep talk gives a thumbs up to Orihime for acknowledging her own jealousy of Rukia. Brava, Matsumoto.

Boo translators who make shit up.  Yey Kubo for such a rocking FEMINIST moment.

EDIT: more on the BA thread Because people will start ship crap even when there's nothing to cry about (see the translation in the first response to this post or Cezaria's translation in the BA thread), let me CLARIFY that there is a previous page to this page in which Matsumoto says that Ichigo NEEDS "you and Kuchiki." That is not in dispute. The Ju-Ni translation on the next page doesn't even mention Ichigo, or Inoue's "bond" to Ichigo or Inoue's "uniqueness."