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Not For One More Second Scene: Japanese and English Comparison

This is the third in a series of translation posts I’ve done about Sora and Kairi’s scenes in KH3. The first post about the paopu fruit sharing scene can be found here, and the second post about the light in the darkness scene can be found here.

Here’s a general key for the kind of analysis I like to do:

JP: Official Japanese Dialogue

EN: Official English Dialogue

TR: My Translation (usually more literal and thus more stilted than the official English version. I’m not using natural-sounding English in order to stick as close to the Japanese versions of the lines as possible for the purpose of analysis)

Notes: things I found interesting, grammatical points, extra thoughts, etc.

One last note: media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Every work of art must be viewed through the cultural lens of the people who made it. Kingdom Hearts, for all its ties to Disney, is still very much a Japanese game, so it should be analyzed in light of that.

With that in mind, let’s continue.

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Ok–

Aerith knows Zack’s sword, he’s her lover after all and she’s seen him with it. She’s still not sure where he is (though I know she knows deep down), where he’s gone, or what’s happened to him at this point so what if– she’s approached Cloud because he has the same eyes and he has her lover’s precious buster sword on his back.

It makes me so happy to see all the Zerith we’re going to get in the remake!

“Sometimes, I see someone with those eyes. The same as yours. But he always disappears. Do you know each other? Do you know where he is? May I ask you another question or should I stop…?” -Aerith’s Monologue, FF 30th anniversary Exhibition.

Credit to: @enigmaphenomenon for the gif.

Be mine

Hello everybody! I am very honored to be one of the people contributing to the Sokai/Rokunami fanzine @twosidesfanzine

In hopes of hyping the fanzine up even more, I’d love to share a deleted scene from my new fanfic “Be mine” that wrote for this project! It acts as a prologue to the rest of the fanfic and while the rest of the fanfic is still understandable without any problem, this scene just adds the icing on the cake :D

Please consider getting a copy of the @twosidesfanzine! All extra funds go to the Best Friends Animal Society (that I would love to link, but I don’t trust tumblr not to make my post invisible and the whole point of this is to make people aware of the zine existing so >.< Sorry!!)

Please enjoy!

“I can do this!”

Sora took a deep breath and squared his shoulders as he looked across the old wooden bridge to the crooked paopu tree and the girl sitting on it. His mouth ran dry.

“I can do this,” he reassured himself, a little less confident as he saw a slight breeze starting to play with her hair, gently rocking it back and forth until she tucked it behind her ear, throwing a short glance back over her shoulder at the same time. Despite their distance, he saw her face light up with recognition and she happily waved at him. Sora swallowed hard.

A stab into his side reminded Sora of the presence of his best friend and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Riku raise his hand in greeting. Immediately, Sora’s hand shot up as well and he waved frantically at Kairi. He didn’t get to hear her soft giggles when he saw her shoulders shake gently, but to his dismay, he couldn’t say the same about his best friend’s snickers.

“Smooth.”

Sora only graced Riku with a scowl before turning his attention back to Kairi who had turned around again to stare at the horizon, waiting patiently for him. As she always did.

“I can’t do this, Riku.”

“Yes, you can. All you need to do is walk over to her, offer her a fruit and bite into it.”

“What if she says no?”

He turned back to look at Riku who sighed and crossed his arms. At the gaze that he threw him, Sora felt himself shrink even more.

“You must be kidding me. Do you really think she could say no? The girl who drew your face on her lucky charm? The girl who was stubborn enough to hold onto the idea of you when everyone else had long forgotten you? The girl who wouldn’t leave your side for days after your last big fight?”

Subconsciously, Sora’s hand flew to his stomach and rubbed the tender spot on it as he threw another look in Kairi’s direction.

Everything Riku said was true. And yet he couldn’t help but be nervous. Sora knew Kairi cared for him, that much was obvious, but he also knew how much deeper his feelings ran: he was ready to commit to her and it excited and terrified him at the same time.

“Hey.”

Riku squeezed his shoulder lightly.

“Don’t worry, she’s just as crazy about you as you are about her, she’s only better at hiding it. Now go,” he said as he gently pushed Sora towards the wooden bridge, “she waited long enough for you.”

Sora nodded.

“Thank you, Riku.”

Taking a deep breath, Sora squared his shoulders once again and walked ahead until Riku called him.

“Hey, Sora! Haven’t you forgotten this?”

Confused, he turned around, just in time to catch something in his outstretched arms.

A paopu fruit.

He threw a last appreciative smile at his best friend before pocketing the fruit and running off towards Kairi.

To be continued ;)

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today is 12/25/2018! merry christmas

kh3 announced: june 10, 2013 (2025 days ago)

last main series release: kh2 released in europe, september 29, 2006 (4471 days ago)

last original release: dream drop distance in north america, july 31, 2012 (2339 days ago)

last release overall: the story so far for ps4 (56 days ago)

release date announced: june 10, 2018 (198 days ago)

release date: january 29, 2019 (35 days from now)

I See The Light

For the KH3 Countdown Challenge.

Day 19 - Wish

Sora leaned back on his hands and sighed. All around them were a bunch of lanterns lighting up the night sky like thousands of stars. Water lapped against the dock where they were sitting, and the way the lanterns reflected off it was like their very own private show. They couldn’t have asked for a better view.

This was what he loved about traveling. This was the kind of thing that made all the time spent away from home worth it. If he had to be away from Kairi and Riku, at least he was making memories like this to share with them when he got back.

“Seeing all these lanterns really reminds me of home,” he said. “The stars reflect off the water at night, and it kinda looks like this.”

“Gawrsh, I bet it’s real pretty, then,” Goofy said.

Donald stared in awe at the light show surrounding them. “Yeah. We have fireworks, but nothing like this.”

As beautiful as the sight was around them, Sora couldn’t help but wish he was back home.

No, that wasn’t exactly it. He liked being here. It was like there was something, or someone, missing—

Jiminy stirred in his hood and perched on his shoulder. “You know what they say about stars, dontcha?”

Sora turned to look at his friend. “That they’re other worlds?”

“Well, that too. On my world though, we say that if you wish upon a star, your dreams will come true.”

“My dreams… will come true?”

“Sure. Why dontcha try it? Maybe it’ll work on lanterns, not just stars.”

He thought about this for a moment. What were his dreams?

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