Scanlation: What should I do about Czechoslovakia? (OLD, chapter 5 omake)

[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

This went unscanlated for so long, so I thought I'd take a chance at typesetting and getting this together. I'm not too sure about how the typesetting turned out, but here it is:

First, I'd like to credit Eruraito for her help with the translation, since Himaruya's handwriting is messy and near incomprehensible at times and I wouldn't have gotten the motivation to try and typeset it without a clue as to what the blurry handwriting was saying about "Czechoslovakia". I also had to double-check some of the speech parts, but the scanlation kind of sat buried on my drive after I worked on it in Photoshop. But since there are so many things not yet scanlated...


I'm unsure about how clear the text came out, but if you have any additional corrections or suggestions, it would be nice to hear! Keep in mind that these designs are VERY old by now (2007), and "musician" Czechoslovakia has pretty much become Iceland (and it seems if the Bamboo blog is to go by, they'll be two characters instead of one, though he still hasn't figured out their looks or dynamics). So if Czech Republic and Slovakia look nothing like any of these, it wouldn't be too surprising. From the 2008 Bamboo post, it does seem like the idea of "Czech=feminine, Slovakia=masculine" (based off their names in Japanese) was still there though. 

Comments

[chulchinmae.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you and Eruraito! It's very informative. :D

Honestly, I wouldn't mind Czechoslovakia looking like the classmate Hidekaz knew~.

And two characters? Hmm, for both regions. c:

[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

I mostly went off from what I remembered from hers, though a friend suggested that male Czechoslovakia's blurb should say "masculine" rather than "sturdy".

Two characters would make a lot of sense for the history of it, Slovakia would be like Hungary's little "henchman" I guess and Czech would be under Austria. I'm interested in how they'd interact with Liechtenstein, though XD

[chulchinmae.livejournal.com]

Also, spaceinvaderdud translated the China+Korea+pictures pages, the three missing pages from chapter 3 (?) with Germany, Italy, Russia; an Estonia + Russia clay figure doodle, and a Prussia+Hungary graphic. I just need typeset them. c:

[heavensealed.livejournal.com]

My headcanon forever has been for them to be twins. Czech the older girl, Slovakia the younger boy.

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GO HIMA GO, YOU TOTALLY HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA THERE!! gdshjflhasdfjsdlfhlasd *brb spazzing forever*

[scribblefish.livejournal.com]

Bratr! <3

[scribblefish.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy that he matched my headcanon that Czech would be the female of the two. I've always thought that and recently fitted my own design for her, but I so would like to see official designs released... please Hima????

[wackyquest.livejournal.com]

I am hoping for the female Czech. For the sake of awkward growing up surrounded by guys and genderly confused Hungary who made a pass on her few times, and who also used to force Slovakia to dress as a girl (come on, he even wore braids at one point) and play house.

*ties to hug tiny Czech, tiny Czech promtly runs away*

[jaseya.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!
I like the idea of them being two people...

[mizu-takishima.livejournal.com]

oh wow, this is awesome! :D thanks for scanlating!

[kohakuu.livejournal.com]

erm, is it still possible to be Czechoslovakian?

[wackyquest.livejournal.com]

Well, sort of. Some people are still feeling a close kinship to the other nation and they consider themselves Czechoslovaks, but it´s more like a feeling of belonging.

[futuresimple.livejournal.com]

Czech should ttly be a boy. And I love the botom left design =w=

silly Himaruya, a musician type can also be a ladies' man~!

[yamikisara.livejournal.com]

agreed

in my headcanon Czech is the boy and Slovakia is his little sister or brother - just because I can't help but imagine Czech being protective of Slovakia no matter what he or she has done to him

also Czech being younger would be historicaly completely wrong...

as I preffer them as 2 characters(again for the sake of correctness)I would like Czech to be the Iceland-looking character and Slovakia the smaller one x3

[yamikisara.livejournal.com]

Maybe a bit OT but I hope they will be Poland's brothers just like Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are siblings and most likely be the cousins of those 3, lol talk about BAD family bonds XD

[laknea.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for tranlating! I'm from Czech Republic so I've been waiting for this so long... XD
A lot of fans here hope that Czech and Slovakia will be in the third volume of manga. Well, I'm not so opitimistic, but it would be nice. :)
I used these characters in some of my fanarts. The left one as Slovakia (I think they're so energetics) and the right one as Czech (calmer and more like Germany). But I would like to see o definitive version of them soon. :D

[dinoturtle.livejournal.com]

Woo. I've always liked the idea of a female Czech and a male Slovakia! Though I didn't like the idea of Slovakia being old at first, I realized that it's a good foil for the two of them with a moe!Czech? Heehee

czechoslovakia should be the mom :3

[yamikisara.livejournal.com]

but Slovakia being older and bigger is not just historicaly wrong o3o

never thought of Czechoslovakia being another character thought XD
sounds good though personally I preffer them just living with Austria and Hungary(after being made to) for a long time before separating from them before Slovakia runs away, comes back and in the end moves in his own house

[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

Well, Himaruya had a LOT of draft ideas for Taiwan. It wouldn't surprise me if the Czech and Slovakia we wind up getting are nothing like any of these, but I do think Czech should be the older one (and the girl). We don't have that many "big sister" type characters in Hetalia!

Little bro!Slovakia is just a cute mental image too. I know there are some fans who'd rather Czech be the guy and Slovakia as the girl since Slovakia is the "smaller" one, though I feel that wouldn't help some fans' rage about all the females being "small/poor/unimportant" countries (which is such an ugly generalization that I've seen, and some go as far as to say they're all third world). That, and I think it'd be funny for there to be a sort of reverse with the two: Czech is female but the harder-working one and has a boyish personality, Slovakia is male but is more feminine in comparison to his sister.

Of course, I don't expect we'll get anything like that, but it's an idea that's cropped up in my head.

[kothithelegu.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[kitsunemischief.livejournal.com]

Thanks for translating.


I hope if Himaruya ever does, make Czechoslovakia a ladies and musician man. It would remind me of my Czech friend.

[librasweets.livejournal.com]

My headcanon Slovakia is a curvy brunette
And headcanon Czech is a ladies man blonde
XD Urgghh

[polyandre.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen in Praga and constructed in my headcannon, I see Czech being a stern but innerly passionate male character. Indeed keen to arts (!). He would also be very patient and determined. In his flaws, he would have poor taste in food and be a bit obsessed with money ^^

CzechSlovakia

[meluzina4.livejournal.com]

Slovakia was under Hungary`s rule, and she was very kind with him. But after poor Slovakia, recognizing, that he hasn`t got any history, and every town of his was built by Hungary, he become frustrated, and angry with Hungary.
I think, that Czech was in love with Roderich:-) She loved him better than Hungary, who was rather rebellious, and was fighting constantly with him. Czech is very talented in music, and has an excellent sense of humor.

[icepelt.livejournal.com]

I would think they would be twins. Slovakia being the more manly of the two. Weather it was a girl or not.

If not I would think that Slovakia would be older. From what I've read, evidence of people living in what is Slovakia has gone as far back as 270,000 BCE. Then the earliest sigh of what became the Czech Republic was 500 A.D.

[icepelt.livejournal.com]

FFFFFFFFFF...I can't edit it to add extra information. Determining their ages would be hard. If you went as far back as possible then Slovakia would be older. If it was from actual kingdoms and such. The Czech Republic would be older.