Ryokiteki na Kanojo [Eng Subs] (Ep 1-4 of 10)

There are some things that are just impossible to translate in this episode. I should say first of all that the opening scene with Saburo and Kensaku, I don't know exactly what the hit and miss is all about, but whoever lost the little game had to pick up the check, obviously.

For this next section, if you don't know about the writing system for Japanese, check out Wikipedia for kana and kanji.

Now the title of the book that Riko is writing is very difficult to write in kanji. Saburo first rewrites the title in hiragana, but Riko insists he write it in kanji. The title of the book is:

憂鬱な薔薇

(Yuuutsu na Bara) These characters have 15-29 strokes each, and, except the first one, are not part of the standard set of kanji that are taught in schools, which is why Saburo has a hard time with these.

Names are also difficult in Japanese and hers also contains a less than common kanji in the third character ri:

高見凛子

but is used in the word:

凛々しい

(ririshii), which means gallant.

I guess it's worth mentioning at this point that we have been using the Japanese order of family name first since the beginning of this series.

If you can't follow this or have specific questions that arise from this in the episode then please post on the thread, but make sure you hide it so you don't give anything away.

The tanka poems in this episode are probably not very accurate, if at all. If anyone out there is reading this and can do better please PM me. I'm going to try to get better translations of them, but I'm not making any promises just yet.