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Shūmatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? TV Anime Premieres in Apr


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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:47 am Reply with quote
That title... Very Happy Wonder what the abbreviation by the fans will be?

It's been described as quite original, at least in terms of light novels, so we'll see...
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Yuvelir



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:24 am Reply with quote
Is that the official translation of the title? That must be the most obnoxious and unintelligible mess of a title I've ever seen.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:28 am Reply with quote
I don't know what this series is but Spring 2017 will be awesome season, compared to winter 2017 and autumn 2016 it will be like heaven and earth.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:28 am Reply with quote
Spring season gonna be so awesome, just so hyped up for all thoose anime and it only just begun
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:50 am Reply with quote
Part of the premise kind of reminds me of Bokurano and that show is actually one of my favorite anime series, so I'm interested to see how dark this will get. With this, Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho, Clockwork Plant, Sakurada Reset, Youjo Senki, Kabuki-bu, and the Other World Dining Hall, and with recent releases such as Re:Zero, Konosuba, and Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, it seems like the anime industry is trying new and different things with light novel adaptations.

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Paulo27



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 10:03 am Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
That title... Very Happy Wonder what the abbreviation by the fans will be?

It's been described as quite original, at least in terms of light novels, so we'll see...
SukaSuka.

Yuvelir wrote:
Is that the official translation of the title? That must be the most obnoxious and unintelligible mess of a title I've ever seen.
This is the translation the MAL entry had and apparently everyone is rolling with it and not bothering to translate it better than Google could. The fan novel translator calls it "What are you doing at the end? Are you busy? Can you save me?"
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kgw



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 10:51 am Reply with quote
The "English" title is just what appear in the cover, not a translation. Just look closer at the pic.
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:34 am Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
That title... Very Happy Wonder what the abbreviation by the fans will be?

It's been described as quite original, at least in terms of light novels, so we'll see...


thanks, while Iw as not put out by the title, the flood of special terms in teh description turned me off, since having more than one in universe term to describe something simple is usually a bad sign.
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Tenebrae



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 12:15 pm Reply with quote
I haven't heard of this before, but the article blurb merely makes me think of the conveyor-belt produced, dime in a dozen magical school shows... and no reason given to expect anything better.
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Michael Nathanael T.





PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:13 pm Reply with quote
What?
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samuelp
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:57 pm Reply with quote
I'd hamfistly call it:

"Hey, are you doing anything this weekEND? Could you spare the TIME and, maybe, save me?"

Getting the pun between "shuumatsu" (end of the world/end times), and "shuumatsu" (weekend) is hard to fit in there... this is my best effort.
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relyat08



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 3:46 pm Reply with quote
samuelp wrote:
I'd hamfistly call it:

"Hey, are you doing anything this weekEND? Could you spare the TIME and, maybe, save me?"

Getting the pun between "shuumatsu" (end of the world/end times), and "shuumatsu" (weekend) is hard to fit in there... this is my best effort.


Thanks, I didn't bother looking at the kanji, but I felt like weekend was a better fit than just end. The given translation is hella awkward though. I couldn't tell if it was trying to be "can you save me?" Or "can I save you?" either. Confused
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:49 pm Reply with quote
The "XXX" has it sound like it would be a porno or harem title.
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KH91



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:52 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
That title... Very Happy Wonder what the abbreviation by the fans will be?


SIS, KaKaKa Wink , ShuIsoSuka.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:07 pm Reply with quote
Yuvelir wrote:
Is that the official translation of the title? That must be the most obnoxious and unintelligible mess of a title I've ever seen.


It's the official English title listed on all the covers of the light novel volumes. As a note, ANN will italicize English titles in parenthesis like that after the Japanese title /only/ if they're official.

If instead they're our staff's translation of a title, we'll put the English translation in parenthesis after the Japanese title but not in italics.

If the show/novels/manga gets licensed and a company gives it a new official English title, we'll switch to that.
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