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After being continuously exposed to them on Nijiura, I felt I finally had to make the effort to translate some of bkub's somewhat incomprehensible comics.

They're all from http://blog.livedoor.jp/bkub/. They're also not exactly easy to get, and I'm limiting myself to translating the ones I actually understand. However, if you do get them, they're pretty hilarious.

First off, a Lucky Star strip featuring Tsukasa's catchphrase "dondake~". I'm using the translation Strato used in the a.f.k. subs for this.

>> No.3788  
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Next, another Lucky Star strip. This one's a real repost classic.

For those who don't know, a Guntank is a machine from the original Gundam. It's supposed to look something like this: http://images.google.com/images?q=guntank

A wise man once said that a good comic does not have just one joke in the last panel, it has a joke in every panel. This comic lives up to that ideal pretty well.

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Next, a Rozen comic. It is no secret that I am a sucker for Suigintou.

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Finally, another Rozen comic, celebrating the restart of the manga!

I might do some more of these given some spare time and the ability to actually comprehend some more strips. I'm sort of itching to do his original manga 3LDKM (http://comoco8109.web.fc2.com/3ldkm1.html), but I'd really need some more time before I can do that.

But feel free to make requests!

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Also, >>3788 is popular enough to make people do things like this.

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so that's who it came from

thanks, I like this guy. his work reminds me of those Churuya comics

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Now, I never really got into the whole Touhou thing, so usually I don't do those comics, but I finally had to admit I just love bkub's depictions of the Touhou girls too much to leave these strips alone.

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Seems bkub's suffering from asthma, too.

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Maybe one of you Touhou people out there can tell me why Chen's using the Chinese reading of her name and not the Japanese?

Or is just one of ZUN's mysteries?

>> No.3820  

>>3810
Because "daidai" doesn't sound as moe as "chen".

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lol, GJ!

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More Touhou silliness.

Stay tuned for 3LDKM! Maybe.

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Hahah, thanks a bunch for these. I love the surreal humor, and the meta-edits just make it more absurd.

There's wikis in both English and Japanese for Touhou if you're ever curious about character details, but I leave that up to you.

Also, honk honk.

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Even more Touhou!

...

Yeah, your guess is as good as mine here, really.

>> No.3853  

3LDKM is done and posted in its own thread!
http://iitran.secchan.net/img/res/3840.html

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The Touhou madness continues.

Man, that frog does look super tough.

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It's mother's day.

>> No.3865  

>>3810
Chen's name uses the chinese reading because it means "bitter orange." It's a very loose pun, since all of the Yakumo family's names can be read as colors of visible light.(Yukari=Violet, Ran=Indigo, Chen=Orange) It's also sort of like a hierarchy.

>> No.3866  

>>3865

Well, yes, but that doesn't actually explain why her name is read in Chinese.

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Good Marisa, you look kind of cool.

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Aburaage is fried tofu. If you've had kitsune udon or inarizushi, you know the stuff.

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After >>3869, bkub vowed to draw a cute Marisa.

The resulting strip was so cute, he had to turn his blog pink and add a bunch of sparkling hearts.

(No, really: http://blog.livedoor.jp/bkub/archives/51201067.html)

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Say hello to Yakumo Ran-bo.

Everything bkub knows about war, he learned from playing FPSes.

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Zawa...
Zawa...
>> No.3882  

>>3876 Not to be a stickler for details, but that's only two pair, not a full house! In my card game, you could get shot for that!

>> No.3883  

>>3882
This is Cirno we're talking about. For all we know, she thought that 9 was a 6.

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It's time for Chen's Maritime Adventures!

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A two-parter, even!

>> No.3900  

>>3882
I think that's part of the joke. Cirno's an idiot, ZUN said it himself (the ⑨ you see accociated with her is because she was pointed out in a instruction manual picture as "baka" with it)
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCZ90Xk9bo

>> No.3903  

>>3900 Good Point! Now that comic has more Funny than ever before.

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>>3810
>>3865
>>3866

ZUN likes to include characters from various locations/cultures (scarlet sisters from France, Alice from Romania, etc). Chen seems to be Chinese in origin, from details like her name and theme song (named "Diao ye zong"). Her dress also seems to have a very Chinese feel to it.

>> No.3911  

those comis are SOOOOOOOOO fucking retard

>> No.3970  

Heh, good to see this thread on the front page. I'd feel bad about bumping it if it'd fallen back a few.

Has he drawn any more Touhou comics? I don't speak a word of Japanese, and searching his blog through trial-and-error doesn't work real well on 28.8k dialup. I'd love to see more of these translated, if there are any more and you have the patience for it.

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Well, I stopped translating these for a while because bkub decided to start experimenting with drawing strips with plain old pen and paper, and also went completely out of his mind at the same time, making the strips even less comprehensible than usual.

But he's back in shape again now, so I decided to clear out as much of the backlog as I could. So here we go, with a strip about the fearsome youkai Chen!

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Next up, we have... Well, to be honest, I have no idea.

ZUN ZUN ZUNCHA!

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bkub suggests, as an explanation, that they probably got the wrong person.

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I think this is the point where bkub gets back to normal levels of dementia. This is pretty straightforward!

As a note, I usually try to translate all sound effects, but in this case "ZUN" seemed like it should be left alone.

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And then, a Halloween colour special!

Tewi won't let a chance for mayhem like that get past her.

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Nobody's going to get this.

It's all about that famous TV show, "The Fountain of Trivia". See, they present bits of trivia and then the guests press the button if they didn't know it and... Ah, just go read the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey!_Spring_of_Trivia

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Ran averts disaster at the last second.

And that's the lot for today. I actually skipped one, because it's some kind of horrible, horrible pun that I don't understand, and probably couldn't translate even if I did. Don't wait up for that one.

>> No.4027  

thanks for these!

i appreciate how most of the time bkub's stuff makes so little sense

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New strips! Rin makes her first appearance!

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Some days translating sure is an easy job.

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But enough with the distractions, let's get back to what's important, namely, Chen.

I really should not laugh as much as I do at this one.

>> No.4155  

It seems Mandarake has opened an international online store now. And they have nearly all of bkub's books in stock:

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/search.do?searchStrategy=keyword&action=keyword&doujin=all&keyword=bkub

They're cheap, too! Especially if you request the slower and cheaper SAL shipping instead of the default EMS.

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New strips have appeared, so it's time to catch up! First an old one that I never got around to doing.

"Wi" is an old character that is read as "i" these days and oh who the hell am I kidding, knowing that is not going to make the comic make any more sense.

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Bkub has this to add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JudFGRUrN_8

>> No.4163  
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You can learn all about making prints of fishes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyotaku

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Poor Rin.

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>> No.4297  

More!

>> No.4309  

>>4297

http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/513835

Try this on for size!

>> No.4311  
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Not actually 4koma and I'm not sure it's even bkub but:

>> No.4312  

>>4311
this actually is bkub, he had copies of them at New York Anime festval. I got a copy and he signed it, was pretty neat.

>> No.4313  

>>4311

That's pretty awesome.

>> No.4343  

BUMP

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>> No.4355  

>>4163
Oooh, I have done that before. I pressed the painted squid against a pillow cover. I slept with the squid print for many years.



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