[scanlation] China and Shinatty-chan

[panjapanja.livejournal.com]

A quick scanlation of the story between China and the lovely Shinatty-chan:



This comic is based on this article.

■ I guess we can't win against Mei Guo after all-aru ■



■ Japanese Kitten ■



■ Fake ■





Saying "aiyaaa" is kind of cute.



** Original author's words end here**

Translation notes:
* China ends his sentences with "aru", which is a kind of Chinese stereotype that Japanese have. I didn't know how to translate this to English without making China sound like Yoda or something so I left it as it is.
* The first link that himaruya-sensei posts is about a Chinese amusement park full of copyright-infringing cheap knockoffs of famous characters. The second is a funny link about how Chinese people have different ways of saying "aiyaaa" to suit any situation and say it all the time (is this true? ahaha;;)
* Kitty-chan is what the Japanese call "Hello Kitty".
* Shina is a kind of offensive way to say "China". Therefore Kitty-chan has become Shinatty-chan.
* Mei Guo = how to say "USA" in Chinese, I think. I don't speak a word of Chinese, so correct me if I'm wrong. OTL And in the title of the second comic they use the Chinese reading for "Japan" (日国), but I don't know how to say that in Chinese so I left it as "Japan" (someone heeeelp OTL)
* AIYA━━━━━(゜Д゜;)!!


Thank you for reading~. China is adorable.

Comments

[panjapanja.livejournal.com]

"aru" is a Japanese word. So I guess for whatever reason they decided that when Chinese people are bad at speaking Japanese they abuse the verb "aru" by sticking it at the end of everything? It is a mystery, but nevertheless pops up in anime a lot when Chinese characters can't speak Japanese very well (like Kagura in Gintama, who also does the aru thing). I have never heard anyone overuse aru like that in real life either, but hetalia is fun for playing with silly stereotypes like this~

[fuyuko713.livejournal.com]

Here's my take on the "aru" stereotype.
I think it's probably from the way various people speak Chinese. I have a Taiwanese accent, so I don't "curl my tongue" when using certain words even when I'm supposed to, like "事” is pronounced "shi", but I might just say "si". But I know that in certain parts of China, some people have a very obvious "tongue curling" habit. I think the aru is based on the words that require "tongue curling" [which is not at all used in the Japanese language...I guess it can be compared to pronouncing "r" in English].

It's kind of hard to explain? But I hope it made sense. （’～`；　）