[scanlation] Vol. 5, Track 10 - I, like, wanna be free!

[konbini.livejournal.com]

Long time no see! I'm here with a translated strip from volume five. I did the translating and typesetting, but special thanks to aomori and jaywalkings for the raw scans and nameru_ja_nai for cleaning! Enjoy!













NOTES
1. It depends on the household, but in East and Southeast Asia, people usually leave their shoes by the door. I guess China's slippers clutter up the doorway once in a while!
2. Yuan Kai is a poet from Shanghai. He lived during the Ming dynasty. If you can read Chinese, here's a collection of some of his poems in simplified Chinese!
3. Yellow can also mean...
4. hao (好) means "good" or "OK" in Chinese.
5. Yes, Taiwan really says kawaii.

I didn't translate the blurbs on the side because I got lazy, but x_regg did right here!
I'll probably do the profiles for the Asian countries next.

Comments

[jaywalkings.livejournal.com]

can i

just say

hk is flawless

omg hk i can't with you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


THANK YOU FOR THE SCANLATION YANAAAARRHGHGKDJFkdfsksglk

[nameru-ja-nai.livejournal.com]

Awesome-ness~<3

Thanks so so much for translating - mind if I post these on Tumblr with credit, or d'you already have that taken care of?

[lksugui.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this! <3

I might be wrong sice my Japanese is big fail, but I think what Macao is saying on p. 88, first panel is "you should let your beloved children go on a journey". In other words, "if you love somebody, set them free".

[konbini.livejournal.com]

No problem - thank you for cleaning the scans up! I've already posted it on my tumblr, (http://yuhina.tumblr.com/post/28706587154) but you can reblog it if you like.

[konbini.livejournal.com]

hk is like, pretty cool if i do say so myself

np np jay! but wow i didn't realize how rusty my japanese was until tonight HAHAHA

[rosetteroulette.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
They're so cute. <3

[konbini.livejournal.com]

oh, yes! you're right. thank you so much, i'll edit it right away.

[nameru-ja-nai.livejournal.com]

Just did ;3

Thanks again~ <33

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

i WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT CHINA COSPLAYS THE GREEN DAM GIRL!


AND I AM SCREAMING

[seraphoftales.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU FOR THE SCANLATIONS!

[boo-sagara.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translations!!!

[piasharn.livejournal.com]

So cute!

Thank you!

(Also, I'm happy that Vietnam made a cameo too. The more I see of her, the more I like her.)

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

I don't trust my japanese well enough to do a translation, but here's a summary/rough translation :D

Treating
In the old times, the concept of 'splitting the bill' didn't exist in the Hong Kong and Guang dong area. Since Chinese people really value 'face', it was normal that the eldest person or the leader will pay the whole cost. Even employees expect to be treated, starting with "XX restaurant is really good~". Even now in business or celebratory occasions it's normal that the host pays for the whole cost. Friends that are around the same age mostly do "AA system" (Going Dutch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Dutch)). It's the same in China.

Lai See
Instead of doing it by age, Lai see is given by married people to unmarried people. The packet usually have a red background with gold writing, and are given away in large numbers. I'm not sure about the rest of the blurbs.. Basically during CNY people have loads of lai see packets ready and distribute them when they see someone they know. Most kids love this period because it's really seen as a source of extra money :P Lai see is also given during celebratory events, eg birthdays, engagements, return gifts etc. They're also never given to someone older than you, even if they're not married.

Villian hitting
I'm only picking up on the kanji (yay for being Chinese!), but the whole thing is about Villain hitting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villain_hitting). The grannies basically 'curse' anyone who may be in your way to fortune by burning talisman and hitting a human-shaped paper with slippers so as to 'curse' them. It's stereotypically used in dramas by mistresses to 'curse' the wife or first wife of their husband. An example here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbwlgvSYVRA)

The second part is just saying in english Cinderella's shoes are known as glass slippers (in Japanese it's translated as glass shoes), the same as what the old grannies use.

Wasabi
A lot of Hong Kongers really love sushi, and use an insane amount of wasabi when eating sushi. It's to the level of covering the small dish with wasabi (A guess, but from my personal wasabi preference, it's not off). Unlike people from Sichuan, it seems like people from Guang dong normally dislike spicy food but wasabi is an exception.

[jaywalkings.livejournal.com]

pretty cool is not enough yana he is the coolest ok hong kong more like hong kool

ALSO UM I

DON'T WANT TO BURST EVERYONE'S BUBBLE OR ANYTHING but I.. don't think that's Vietnam on page 89- for one, she has a ribbon in her hair whereas Vietnam just has a simple hairtie I think??

and me and a friend translated the text above her and HK and it says something like sneaky whispering; it makes sense for HK to be secretly asking one of his people to give China a discount on what he's getting, after what HK's saying about treating him in the next panel...

[konbini.livejournal.com]

ohhh i see! i just saw your tumblr post with taiwan and vietnam cameos and assumed, haha. whatevs, i'll edit in the morning... but thank you!

[jaywalkings.livejournal.com]

oops sorry that was my fault u3u I JUST... ASSUMED TOO.. but then afterwards was like but wait this doesn't.. make any sense what's vietnam doing in the middle of all this chineseness.... and now with your translation I'm pretty sure it isn't orz

s-sorry for the trouble ;o;!

[zombiebat.livejournal.com]

You know how much I love you for this ♥

[wakalakaosaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the scanlation!

;U; China, you adorable nation you ♥♥♥

[misty-rain.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[x-cutslikesilk.livejournal.com]

"I'll start living the good life" HONG KONG OUT

[nebulous-mirage.livejournal.com]

YAY THANK YOU!!!

I'm so happy that we got HK and Taiwan interactions!!!

[barrelsncrates.livejournal.com]

Thanks for translating this and putting this up for us! ~

Hong Kong is so adorable.

And lol, at the fail!decorating.

[kanna19.livejournal.com]

OMG!! Thanks you sooooo much!

[usamisa52.livejournal.com]

I believe Himaruya also drew her before XDDD

[heyyl0.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the scanlations!!! *u*

[hitus.livejournal.com]

CHINA SO CUTE!! ;U;


As always - thank you guys, you're awesome!

[j-sasunaru-c.livejournal.com]

OMGGGGG WHY IS EVERYTHING SO PERFECT!

I can't help but see them sort of... mocking the War of Independence? Hahhahah!

But they're just so funny! China's so cute and derpy, hohoho!

Thank you so much!

And yay for more Asians!

[foohey1212.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for translating!! :D

jffjd;sajfd HK and Macao are just so cute <3 and Vietnam and Taiwan~!
but I don't understand some of it...

[gordafarid.livejournal.com]

Whoever who did translated, thank you so much.

Oh China, you shouldn't touch and censor his stuff, no wonder why Hong Kong is pissed off and wants to move out. And that's reflects almost exactly of what happens in reality in Hong Kong.

Anyway, I really enjoy reading and laughing a lot, and that's the good one! <3

[webcomix.livejournal.com]

/appears from weeklong absence from internet

Oh my god

HK

Independence

I literally have a lump in my throat seeing this

As an HKer I don't think it's even possible but guh sorry just having strong feels

[mizu-takishima.livejournal.com]

China you're such a big-bro-mama-person ; w ; never stop <3

Thanks for sharing & translating!

[starrdust411.livejournal.com]

This story was so cute! I know that all of these are political anecdotes, but Hong Kong's frustrations mirrors events I've seen happen in my own family which makes this all the more amusing to me. And China... Oh China. He's so cute and motherly! He just doesn't want another baby bird to leave the nest. XD

Thank you so much for translating this :D

[sakurita.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the scanslation!

So, Hong Kong also speaks like a valley girl? Interesting...

[trimacle.livejournal.com]

Hong Kong was cuter when he was with England.
XD

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

"Hong Kong was cuter when he was in England too"

MACAU THINKS HONG KONG IS CUTE!! /shot

[fmptard.livejournal.com]

i keep loving HK more and more... ,,=_=,,

[chiisana00.livejournal.com]

Lai See, also known as Red Envelope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope) :D

[sotnosen93.livejournal.com]

It's more that he speaks like a stereotypical teenager, I've heard.

[iteyoshii.livejournal.com]

Macao is totally Asian's tsukkomi role XD

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

Yeahhhh XD;; forgot that not everyone knows lai see as lai see orz *ignorant HKer*

[disneyotaku.livejournal.com]

Thank you for translating!!

oh my gosh, I am crying with this!!

[stephanie chan (from livejournal.com)]

I laughed so hard at the Hong Kong and Tai Wan part cause it happened to me once and cause i'm Chinese(Hong Konger but I don't like wasabi) and my dad's moving all the furniture and stuff but because of Feng Shui,we couldn't put this here and that there and it turns out we didn't get to move anything.....THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THE SCANLATION!!!>.

[soriniq.livejournal.com]

Thank you for translation!
Macau is the chillest of chill. He just sat there and fangirl.
And feel a bit bad for China.
Do you think the girl Hong Kong was looking at is Vietnam and stuff? I dont know.
And aah more sides of the characters' personality and stuff. totally sugoi.

[midori-lover.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh oh my gosh the Asians are so cute <33333! thank you!

[dorkishgrin.livejournal.com]

Late to the party but omg.

HONG KONG BBY

WHY SO CUTE, HUH?

Then there's possible Macau x HK <3

But everyone is adorable in this, I can't even *A*

[hannah-asakura.livejournal.com]

xD ahah Hong Kong want independent lol I got a feeling when i read the raw, too bad too many kanji to read i can't understand LOL thank you for the scan! I've been urious! :3 awww HK gave (or sell lol) China something as a thanks for the treat 'via' Vietnam xD

And... to think that Hong Kong got so many yellow LOL

[lillydrop.livejournal.com]

That was so funny! Hong Kong's such cutie :D

[lanette ly (from livejournal.com)]

I'm really happy to see Vietnam in there~

I hope she gets to be in the anime 😁😁