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wombat1138'Nother RK doujinshi translation.
From "Meiji Chanbara Roman Porno", Yamaguchirow 1997; no page numbers as printed?
More or less same format as last time:
#N#: page numbers
|: occasionally, balloonbreaks; usually I try to start a new line for each balloon, but not always.
+++: framebreak
= raw romaji: [kanji], hiragana, KATAKANA, words-linked-inna-phrase; ~thoughts/commentary, *sound fx*; isolated * symbols at the end of words generally represent the glottal-stop hiragana otherwise transliterated as "tsu" or as a doubling of the subsequent consonant.
= raw gloss: [function words], (elided words)
Narrative description
[snarky notes]
-- "occasional coherent(ish) translations"
(#1)
Setting: Kaoru's and Yahiko's bedroom. (Why do they share a bedroom? Probably just plot contingency.) Both of them are falling asleep on their respective futons, or trying to; Kaoru's still awake with anxiety.
Yahiko:
*guo* (falling-asleep yawn?)
Kaoru:
*musu* (unhappy grimace?)
+++
Kaoru:
= [Kenshin]... [oso]i na...
= [name]... late [emotional marker]
-- "Kenshin... gosh, he's late..."
~ mata [Sanosuke] to [no]nde n'da wa [otoko] 'tte doushite koto...
= again [name] with drinking [emphasis]copula [girly emotion] men [annoyance] how/why stuff
-- "I guess he must be out drinking with Sanosuke again. Those darn guys-- why do they do things like that?"
["otoko" might be either singular or plural, so the second sentence might also be "That darn guy-- why does he do stuff like that?" It's not as polite/formal as the usual "otoko no hito" (male-type person)."
+++
sound from outside her room:
*GATA GOTO* (probably Kenshin kicking his shoes off: "CLACK CLONK" or suchlike?)
Kaoru:
~ a* [kae]tte kita
= [exclamation] returning came
-- "Oh-- he came home"
["kaette kuru" is an idiom for coming home]
+++
bedroom door:
*sususu* (sliding open)
#2#
Suddenly, Kenshin is standing beside her futon:
*PISHA* (walking-in-socks noise)
Kaoru:
= e
-- "huh?"
+++
Kaoru sits up:
= chotto [Kenshin] [heya]... 'tte 'ru wa yo...
= moment [name] [chamber]... [annoyance] being [girly emotion] [exclamation]
-- "Hey, just a darn second... your room is...
~ achi
= [informal for "achira", "that direction over there"; oddly, this is on the *opposite* side from where she's pointing]
-- "off thataway"
+++
Kenshin drops to her level, beaming:
= dadaimaa (hi-*)
[slurred pronunciation of "tadaima", literally "(I've come home) just now", the customary announcement on returning home-- in this case, the exact translation isn't as important as finding something slurrable for him to say, for example:]
-- "Didja mish me?" (hic)
*nipa* (blinding grin)
Kaoru (startled reflex):
= o-- O-KAERI-nasai
-- "w-- WELCOME home..."
[The customary response to "tadaima" is often transliterated as the single word "okaerinasai". Technically, it breaks down to [honorific prefix} + return(nounish form) + the plain imperative of "nasaru", the honorific equivalent of "suru" (do), so the literal translation would be something like "Gloriously accomplish an honorable return!" However, probably no one really thinks of it that way; the "kaerinasai" imperative is only about halfway up the courtesy scale, between the plain imperative "kaere" ("return!") and the polite "kaette kudasai" (based on another honorific verb, "kudasai"; the semi-literal translation would be something like "Kindly bestow your returning upon my unworthy self") and well below the formal "okaeri nasaimase", where the second word is the *formal* imperative of "nasaru": "May you gloriously accomplish an honorable return"? However, these semi-literal versions aren't terribly useful, since in actual conversation the four levels of imperative are probably more equivalent to "Get back (t)here, dammit!", "Come back here, right now" (or "Go back there, right now"), "Please return", and "Excuse me, would you mind returning?"]
+++
He glomps her flat onto the futon with a discreet kiss and an enormous sound effect:
*chu* (kissy)
*gaba* (glomp)
She makes an initial startled noise before launching a protest.
= wa*
-- "Eep!"
= [nani] shiten' no yo [Kenshin]!
[The full form of "shiten' no" (or "shitenno") would've been "shite-iru-no", [doing]-[animate-existence]-[thing]; I would've translated "Nani shite iru no yo Kenshin" as "What on earth are you doing, Kenshin?", but somehow I'm not happy with anything I'm coming up with for this.]
-- "What the heck're you doing?!" (expresses the informal contraction, but also inaccurately raises the annoyance level; "Hey! What th--" seems more natural, but doesn't flow into the next line.)
+++
Kenshin cheerfully slides a hand up her leg.
= II KOTO
= GOOD THING
-- "SOMETHING NICE."
[I suppose "nice" should also have its pronunciation slurred, but dunno how to spell that.]
*GOSO GOSO* (SNEAK SNEAK)
She's still off balance, in more ways than one...
= haa?
-- "Huh?"
#3#
...but recovers quickly:
= chotto o-[sake] kusa-i [yo]tten'-no?
= moment sake stinky (being)-drunk?
-- "Wait, you ree...ek of sake-- you drunk?"
[The dash in the middle of "kusai" is written in the original to elongate the previous vowel; I guess I could've also transliterated the word as "kusaai", but didn't feel like it.]
Subtext or authorial comment:
~ [uso] desho--? mezu-rashii
= falsehood must-be--? unusual-[apparently]
-- "It can't be true--? This must be unusual."
["rashii" acts like an independent adjective; depending on what it's following, it can either mean "seems like" or "is typical of".]
Him:
= [yo]tte nai re-gosaru (hikku)
= being-drunk not [copula] [sound effect]
[He has totally messed up his usual formal copula "de-gozaru". Again, I'm preserving the slurred sound rather than the strict translation.]
-- "Of coursh not-- I'm completely shober. (hiccup)"
Her:
= datte [tonari]-de [Yahiko] ga [ne]te no yo
= but/however adjacent [name] [subject/emphasis] sleeping [girly statement] [exclamation]
-- "But-- look at Yahiko, he's sleeping right over there!"
Him:
= [heiki] [heiki]
["heiki" seems to be one of those difficult-to-translate concepts-- emotional balance, perfect composure, serene detachment, something Zen like that. In this context, it could refer to any of the three people in the room.]
-- "No problem, that's fine."
In the foreground, Yahiko is still snoring away:
*kuka--* (sleepy mouth-breathing)
Her:
= na*
[I *think* this is an interrupted "nai", no/not, in which case she's negating his previous line.]
-- "No it's not!"
+++
Kenshin shushes her:
= shi--*
-- "Shhh..."
Her:
= a*
-- "Um"
+++
Then kisses her lips again...
*chu* (kissy)
Her:
= n*
-- "Mmph"
+++
...before working his way down the open front of her yukata with a few more *cho* *cho* kissy sound effects. She is nonplussed.
Her:
= cho* | [shin]jirannai* BAKA* | YA^ME^TE
[The first balloon is probably a truncated "chotto". While I have confirmation elseweb for the translation of "shinjirannai", I'm spacing out on the intermediate stage. The ^s transliterated from the third balloon were centered dots in the original, used for adding even more emphasis than usual. Since I'm not sure how to drop down the formality of the middle line, I'm making the last one more colloquial instead.]
-- "Wai-- | I don't believe this, you idiot! | CUT IT OUT!!!"
+++
She shoves his face away, using both hands. There's a large sound effect in the foreground, but it isn't coming from either Kenshin or Kaoru-- he's mid-frame; her arms are coming out of the lower left corner; the sound effect is coming from the lower right corner-- so I think it's actually Yahiko snoring, since that's one of the possibilities listed in my sound-effect references, and nothing else for this sound matches what K&K are doing right now.
*gugu* ("ZZZZZZ")
#4#
Kenshin looks in the wrong direction.
= son ja [Yahiko] de...
[I'll have to make a guess here because I'm spacing out again and I just realized the wombat-consort and I are going to be out of town all next week, so I'm hoping to finish this translation before then. "Son ja" seems to be an idiomatic remark, probably based on "sono de wa" (that+[semiformal copula]) and variously translated as "anyway", "now then", and so on.]
-- "Is that Yahiko over there?"
Annoyed, she yanks at his ponytail to face the right way.
= KOKO-*
-- "Over HERE."
+++
He waves his hands dismissively.
~ [jodan] de gozaru yo
-- "It's just a joke!"
She's still annoyed, though.
~ sono [gyoukai] ja SHAshi ni nannai no yo...
= [that] industry [copula] [company history?} in not-become? [girly statement] [exclamation]
[I'm not sure that's the right definition for this "shashi", but the general meaning of her sentence seems fairly clear; "nannai" is probably a contraction of "naranai".]
-- "It sure isn't destined for the comedy hall-of-fame!"
+++
Him (still smiling vacantly):
= jaa* [issho]-ni [nemu]ru dake
= [copula] all-at-once sleep(verb) only
-- "Suddenly, I'm about to fall asleep."
~ [nani] mo shinai de-gozaru shi--
= what more not-do [copula] [?]
-- "and not do anything else"
sound effect from somewhere:
*nugi nugi*
[This could be Yahiko again, but since I can't find it on a sound-effects list anywhere, I suspect it's related to the verb "nugu" (see the next line). The artwork isn't definite, but Kenshin may be loosening his own clothing here.]
Yup, she's still annoyed.
= nande [hitoe] made [nu]gu-no kara...
= what-kind [unlined-garment] until disrobing from
[ :b I swear I tried to identify the "hitoe" kanji for three or four days until I gave up and kept going. The right half is mostly a big rectangular blob in my doujinshi copy, and it turns out that the entire kanji is rare enough that it isn't in any of my three dictionaries anyway. Luckily Jim Breen's multiradical kanji search engine came to the rescue just now. Not sure whether the "hitoe" she's referring to is her sleep yukata (technically called "nemaki", but never mind), the inner layer of Kenshin's everyday street clothes, or whatever. There are several possible translations, depending on which words I add in:]
-- "What the-- he's exhausted just from half-removing my yukata?"
-- "What kind of lovemaking is this? It didn't even last until my yukata was off..."
-- "Then why is he stripping down to his underwear?"
[Actually, Kenshin keeps his clothing on from the waist up, but the next few times we get a view of him from the waist down, first his hakana (trouserlike things) looks loose, then his upper clothing is untucked and hanging down, and then his hakama is shedding off like a snakeskin as he rolls around with Kaoru. So I suppose that what just happened here is that he simply untied his hakama. I still don't think it's clear from the artwork, though.]
[But I guess that means the correct translation of Kaoru's line should be:]
-- "Then why is he untying only his hakama?" (instead of also taking off his outer kimono to strip down to a single undergarment, which is probably close enough to nemaki for a very drunk oro-chan), or maybe
-- "Is that the only reason he's taking his clothes off?"
+++
But then suddenly he leans close again, making her heart pound loudly.
= datte... [ima] SUKU [Kaoru-dono] ga [ho]shii kara...
= despite/therefore... now empty(verb)? [name+honorific] desired/pleasing [subject emphasis] from...
[As a brief reminder, "hoshii" functions as an adjective but the smoothest translation into English is generally the verb "to like", hence "neko wa hoshii" ~ "I like cats" (or "Me gustan los gatos" for gratuitous Spanish); "ima suku" seems to be an idiom for "right now", perhaps in a sense of "empty out the present moment, because this other thing I'm about to say is urgent"? I think this is actually the first time in this piece where Kenshin's addressed her as "Kaoru-dono", using the slightly archaic honorific he uses for all women.]
-- "But still... right now, Mistress Kaoru, since you wish it..."
Her: *DOKI-* (KA-THOOMP)
+++
He glomps her again: *gyuu* (glomp)
On the other side of the room, Yahiko rolls over and makes a noise.
Yahiko:
*u...n (ka)* ("Mmph (sigh)*)
Kaoru:
*ha-* ("Eep!")
+++
Kenshin:
= [Kaoru-dono] no naka ni [sessha] no [sakabatou] wo [noutou] sasete [ho]shii de-gozaru
= [name+title] 's inside in [pronoun] 's reverse-blade-sword [object] sword-sheathing-technique cause-to-do desired [copula]
[Kenshin's still using his special self-referential humble pronoun, for which this time I'm not using Viz's streamlined translation as "this one" because it's funnier the other way. Under normal circumstances, his sakabatou is the mutant katana he uses in combat; he was wearing it when he walked into this room, but by the end of page 2, it had fallen out of his waistband onto the floor and is pretty much never seen again. Just as well, really. His old nom-de-guerre, "Battousai", was based on his mastery of battoujutsu (the practice of sword-drawing techniques); "noutoujutsu" is the equivalent for the proper techniques of resheathing the katana.]
-- "This unworthy person wishes to sheathe his sword deep within Mistress Kaoru."
She's rather upset by his declaration (I couldn't figure out how to phrase it in a way that didn't also sound like a battle challenge, but she doesn't seem to be concerned in that sense), as well as by his resumed tonguework on her torso.
= na*-[nani] [baka]-na koto [i]tten'-no yo*
= [noise] what idiotic thing saying [exclamation]
["baka na" is probably a colloquial version of "baka no"?]
-- "Wh-- what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"
= yappari koko ja DAME
= as-expected there [copula] FORBIDDEN
-- "I knew it! GET AWAY from there!"
#5#
She turns around to crawl out from under him.
= sore ni [sakabatou] wa [ippon] de [juubun] yo*
= that in sakabatou [topic] single with/from enough [exclamation]
["ippon" is a counting word based on "hon", which seems to have originated in the concept "treetrunk" and has since diversified from there into the meanings "basis" and "book" (via "paper scroll"?), among others. The types of objects counted with "hon" include living plants and long/cylindrical things (heh).]
-- "And for that matter, one sakabatou is already enough for you!"
Him: "Oro?"
+++
He recovers from his surprise quickly, though:
= kotchi [shinu]chi de-gozaru yo
= this-direction exemplar [copula] [exclamation]
["kotchi" = informal for "kochira"]
[Literally, "shinuchi" means something like true-strike; the word can indicate a person such as a master craftsman/artisan, or to an object that could only be made by someone like that. (I don't think the word "masterpiece" would be entirely accurate for the latter, since iirc a masterpiece was originally the equivalent of a guild journeyman's graduate thesis.) However, in the specific context of RK, "shinuchi" was used to describe Kenshin's replacement sakabatou; made by the same smith who forged the first sakabatou, it was essentially the apotheosis of the Platonic ideal sakabatou and had been dedicated to a Shinto shrine during the intervening years.]
-- "But this here's the perfect original!"
+++
*ba* ("whump")
[The sound-effect glossary explains "ba" as "sudden impact". What can I say?]
Kaoru experiences sudden impact, up close and personal.
= ya--*
-- "Ack!"
+++
*GOSO GOSO* ("rustle rustle")
Him:
= ushiro wa [to]tta de-gozaru
= behind [topic] caught [copula]
[More swordplay puns, I think; "ushiro" can refer to a sword blow into the back. Since there are no pronouns, he could be talking about himself grabbing Kaoru or her "catching" his, er, sakabatou.]
-- "Caught from behind!"
Her:
= DAME | mada atashi... [nu]rete nai SO da 'tte wa...
= FORBIDDEN | not-yet I... getting-wet/making-love not this-way [copula] [annoyance] [girly emotion]
-- "STOP THAT! | Sheesh, not yet... I'm not getting wet like this, darn you...
#6#
Poor girl, she means it.
= i^ | ** | tatata*
[In this panel, the ^ marks represent the little pain-stars that punctuate various forms of "itai", an adjective which means "painful" and is the usual exclamation of painful surprise, or surprised pain.]
-- "Ow! | (gasp) | ow ow ow--"
Sadly, he is an oblivious bonehead...
= [daijobu] de-gozaru yo
-- "That's okay, really."
+++
...until she gives him a Glare Of Death over her shoulder.
-- "Oro?"
~ dakara MURIYARI wa iya da 'tte no-ni
= therefore regardless-of-consent [topic] unpleasant [copula] [annoyance] although/despite
["muriyari" is nearly an exact parallel to the English "willy-nilly"; I'm flipping the double negative in translation because I feel like it. At the end of a sentence, "no ni" indicates dissatisfaction.]
-- "This is why cooperation is a good idea, darn it; I told you that already."
+++
He is abashed with the mighty cluestick!
+++
When she sits up, dismounting him, he collapses into a little pile of contrition in her lap:
= gomen...
-- "I'm sorry..."
[Huh. Apparently, unlike "o-kaeri nasai", the first half of "gomen nasai" isn't verb-based; instead, it's a noun meaning "amnesty/pardon/permission" with a different honorific tacked onto the front, so really it breaks down as "go-men nasai". I was going to make this note much longer, but I think I'd better just write up an entirely different post on the subject.]
*gyuto-*
[the sound of him clutching her waist, I think? "huggles"?]
+++
Cautiously, she strokes his hair and says his name in hiragana.
= ken... shin?
#7#
He's still sorry.
= gomen...
+++
She ponders this for a silent frame, then blushes.
= neE | [Kenshin]...
-- "Say, | Kenshin...?"
[I'm pretty sure the next frame is supposed to be the one at the bottom of the page, instead of the one at the left edge.]
+++
= [atashi]-no koto... [su]ki?
[Since "suki" is really a nounlike adjective rather than a verb, a copula such as "da" or "desu" is understood to exist at the end of the sentence even though it's been omitted, if that makes any sense. The whole expression is idiomatic; on a literal level, it means something like "Are my attributes pleasing (to you)?" or "Is there something about me that you like?"]
= "Do you... love me?"
+++
Awww, just look at oro-chan's big sad eyes.
= suki de-gozaru yo | [Kaoru-dono]...
-- "I do love you | Mistress Kaoru..."
#8#
She blushes even more as he nuzzles her shoulder.
*kaaa* ("blush"; bet you didn't know there was a *sound effect* for blushing, did you?)
+++
Sadly, at this point, Kenshin breaks the romantic mood.
*HIKKU* ("HICCUP")
+++
She tries to shove him away again, but he has a firm grasp on her, um, affections? He keeps nuzzling her:
~ suki suki
-- "lovey lovey"
While she protests:
= eei [hana]se* | kono [yo]p[para]i me--*
= [exclamation] release(command form) | this drunk-person(slang) [?]
[I don't know what the rest of her "me--" word is.]
-- "Heeey, let go of me! | You boozehound!"
~ [yo]wanakya [i]eru no ka
<- [yo]wanakereba [i]eru no ka
= if-not-drunk can-be-said(by Kenshin) [particle] [particle]
[In this case, I'm not certain which particle is doing what; both of them cast a general aura of doubt, though. Several possible translations again, what with the omitted pronouns:]
-- "Would he really be talking like this if he wasn't drunk?" (i.e., his goofiness is proving that he's drunk after all)
-- "Can you still say that when you're sober?" (does he really love her, or is it just the sake fumes talking to her?)
+++
= [hana]...
-- "Let--"
He interrupts her with more smooching. Several pages of slightly naughty drawings follow, with surprisingly few sound effects.
#9#
No sound effects here...
#10#
Or here either...
#11#
But Yahiko starts to wake up anyway.
*piku* (twitch)
+++
*peki* (blink?)
+++
*muku* (sitting up)
Yahiko sits up, blearily rubbing his eyes at Kenshin and Kaoru in the middle of their activities.
+++
At this point, both of them have their own sound effects. This one is an extreme version of "kichi kichi" (packed full, at the limit, close to the edge, etc.)
Him: *gitchi*
= N...
-- "nh..."
Her: *gitchi*
= ha*
-- "ah--"
#12#
Kaoru turns her head...
= N...
-- "nh..."
+++
...and notices Yahiko sitting up at them. She grabs Kenshin's face and turns it in that direction.
*guin* (ker-grab)
Kenshin:
= oro
+++
= SA--*
[hiss of surprise?]
~ [yo]i mo sameta rashii
= intoxicated also became-cold/awake apparent
[There are two different "sameru" verbs, but without kanji, I can't tell which one this is supposed to be. It's probably the wakey verb as part of an idiom for sobering up, but the chilly verb may also be involved as a pun.]
-- "and he seems to sober up" (and/or "and he seems to cool down")
+++
Kaoru:
= YA...
Kenshin:
= HIKO
[One last hiccup for the night?]
+++
~ shikashi [Yahiko] imada-ni [yume] no [naka]...
= however [name] still dream 's middle...
-- "However, Yahiko is still in the middle of a dream..."
*HOaa* (sigh/yawn?)
[Actually, I find Yahiko's next lines surprisingly poignant; even though now he usually acts like a smartmouthed punk toward Kaoru, here he's reverted to the ultra-polite speech he must've been raised with by his samurai parents when they were still alive. He's even using the ultra-polite honorific suffix that literally means "above".]
Yahiko:
= [haha]-[ue] mo [chichi]-[ue] mo | [maiban] imada-ni [taihen]-da yo na
= mother-exalted also father-exalted also | every-night still serious/awful [exclamation] [male emotional emphasis]
-- "Both my noble lady mother and my noble lord father | even now, every night-- truly, this is terrible of them."
~ go-kurou ga
= [honorific]-effort [subject emphasis]
[Snert. This is modified from a specialized form of thanks, "go-kurou-sama (deshita)", which can be appropriately spoken to superiors in praise of their hard work.]
-- "Indeed, it is a glorious and mighty effort."
#13#
With that, Yahiko flops back down onto his futon.
= guu *koten*
-- "Snzz" *plop*
+++
Kaoru:
= shi... [shi]nu ka to [omo]tta...
= [sound]... die [question] [indirect statement] thought...
-- "I... I thought I was going to die..."
~ nebokete te yokatta
= becoming-half-awake/asleep [?] was-good
[There's definitely a second "te" there. I don't know what it's doing. She might still be stuttering, or it could be equivalent to the particle "de"(until?)]
-- "It's a good thing he only woke up halfway."
Kenshin:
= [sessha] mo
-- "This unworthy person as well..."
+++
Kenshin:
= [ima]-no-de [na]ete shimatta de-gozaru
= just-now withered finished [copula]
[Oh, the embarrassment; also, "shimatta" is often an isolated exclamation translated as "dammit!")
-- "I've just gone completely limp."
Kaoru:
= [tsuzu]ki... [Kenshin] no [heya] de suru?
= continuation/sequel... [name] 's chamber in do
-- "Why don't we... go to your room to try again?
+++
Kenshin:
= somo-somo nande [sessha] | [Kaoru-dono]-no [heya] ni niru de-gozaru?
= first-of-all why [pronoun] (possessive)| Mistress-Kaoru's chamber in become-similar [copula]?"
[I'm not sure about the meaning for that onomatopoeia; it isn't in my standard references, so I have to guess from Google results.]
-- "The chamber of this humble person? But why? | It's very much like Mistress Kaoru's chamber."
(or in less stilted diction, "Why my room? It's just like yours."
~ [kon'ya] wa chito [no]misugi de do--mo [kioku] GA...
= tonight [topic] small-amount excessive-drinking from very/somehow memory [subject emphasis] (copula)
["chito" is probably a variant of "chotto"; I don't have all of the grammar sorted out, but I'll make a guess at fitting the pieces together anyway:]
-- "Because he drank too much tonight, his memory is very short..."
+++
She gapes at him dumbfounded...
#14#
...before bestowing upon him the Kamiya Fist of Pain.
= [ware] no [wasu]reru-no mo taigai ni shiro--*
= myself 's forgetting-about(noun) also mostly in do(command)
-- "You might as well forget about me, too!"
*doBAn* ("ka-POW!")
Kenshin:
= O* RO*
+++
She crashes back down onto her futon by herself.
*ba fu* ("whump" + "sigh")
~ [Kenshin] no BAKA*!!
= [tai]shita [shinu]chi de-koto*
= great masterwork sort-of-thing
-- "The great, perfect original-- hah!"
(or, "What kind of master-work was *that*?")
Awwww, look at oro-baka's dazed swirly eyes.
= na... [nani] no HANASHI de-gozaru--
-- "Wh-- whatever happened to 'let me go!'...?"
+++
And then Kenshin goes drinking with Sano again the next night, because he learned nothing from this experience.
= [Sano]... nande [Kaoru-dono] wa [oku]tte 'ru-no de-gozaruu ka? *haa*
= [name]... why [name] [topic] getting-angry being(noun) [copula] [question] [noise]
[The particular combination of "okutte'ru" confuses me; he's not just asking about why she got mad last night, he's discussing it as if the process of her getting mad is something that's still happening-- does it keep happening over and over again, or it is just that she's maintaining her anger at him, or is he just using weird grammar because he's already had too much sake for tonight?]
-- "Sano... wh--y is Mistress Kaoru still being angry?" (sigh)
Helpfully, Sano pours out more sake.
= [tochuu] de YAMEta kara ja ne-- no?
= on-the-path from stopped because [copula] [negative] [informal question]
-- "Because you stopped partway, or isn't that it?"
+++
~owari jan~
<- owari de-wa-nai
= ending [negative copula]
-- "the end (not)"
[Oof.]
From "Meiji Chanbara Roman Porno", Yamaguchirow 1997; no page numbers as printed?
More or less same format as last time:
#N#: page numbers
|: occasionally, balloonbreaks; usually I try to start a new line for each balloon, but not always.
+++: framebreak
= raw romaji: [kanji], hiragana, KATAKANA, words-linked-inna-phrase; ~thoughts/commentary, *sound fx*; isolated * symbols at the end of words generally represent the glottal-stop hiragana otherwise transliterated as "tsu" or as a doubling of the subsequent consonant.
= raw gloss: [function words], (elided words)
Narrative description
[snarky notes]
-- "occasional coherent(ish) translations"
(#1)
Setting: Kaoru's and Yahiko's bedroom. (Why do they share a bedroom? Probably just plot contingency.) Both of them are falling asleep on their respective futons, or trying to; Kaoru's still awake with anxiety.
Yahiko:
*guo* (falling-asleep yawn?)
Kaoru:
*musu* (unhappy grimace?)
+++
Kaoru:
= [Kenshin]... [oso]i na...
= [name]... late [emotional marker]
-- "Kenshin... gosh, he's late..."
~ mata [Sanosuke] to [no]nde n'da wa [otoko] 'tte doushite koto...
= again [name] with drinking [emphasis]copula [girly emotion] men [annoyance] how/why stuff
-- "I guess he must be out drinking with Sanosuke again. Those darn guys-- why do they do things like that?"
["otoko" might be either singular or plural, so the second sentence might also be "That darn guy-- why does he do stuff like that?" It's not as polite/formal as the usual "otoko no hito" (male-type person)."
+++
sound from outside her room:
*GATA GOTO* (probably Kenshin kicking his shoes off: "CLACK CLONK" or suchlike?)
Kaoru:
~ a* [kae]tte kita
= [exclamation] returning came
-- "Oh-- he came home"
["kaette kuru" is an idiom for coming home]
+++
bedroom door:
*sususu* (sliding open)
#2#
Suddenly, Kenshin is standing beside her futon:
*PISHA* (walking-in-socks noise)
Kaoru:
= e
-- "huh?"
+++
Kaoru sits up:
= chotto [Kenshin] [heya]... 'tte 'ru wa yo...
= moment [name] [chamber]... [annoyance] being [girly emotion] [exclamation]
-- "Hey, just a darn second... your room is...
~ achi
= [informal for "achira", "that direction over there"; oddly, this is on the *opposite* side from where she's pointing]
-- "off thataway"
+++
Kenshin drops to her level, beaming:
= dadaimaa (hi-*)
[slurred pronunciation of "tadaima", literally "(I've come home) just now", the customary announcement on returning home-- in this case, the exact translation isn't as important as finding something slurrable for him to say, for example:]
-- "Didja mish me?" (hic)
*nipa* (blinding grin)
Kaoru (startled reflex):
= o-- O-KAERI-nasai
-- "w-- WELCOME home..."
[The customary response to "tadaima" is often transliterated as the single word "okaerinasai". Technically, it breaks down to [honorific prefix} + return(nounish form) + the plain imperative of "nasaru", the honorific equivalent of "suru" (do), so the literal translation would be something like "Gloriously accomplish an honorable return!" However, probably no one really thinks of it that way; the "kaerinasai" imperative is only about halfway up the courtesy scale, between the plain imperative "kaere" ("return!") and the polite "kaette kudasai" (based on another honorific verb, "kudasai"; the semi-literal translation would be something like "Kindly bestow your returning upon my unworthy self") and well below the formal "okaeri nasaimase", where the second word is the *formal* imperative of "nasaru": "May you gloriously accomplish an honorable return"? However, these semi-literal versions aren't terribly useful, since in actual conversation the four levels of imperative are probably more equivalent to "Get back (t)here, dammit!", "Come back here, right now" (or "Go back there, right now"), "Please return", and "Excuse me, would you mind returning?"]
+++
He glomps her flat onto the futon with a discreet kiss and an enormous sound effect:
*chu* (kissy)
*gaba* (glomp)
She makes an initial startled noise before launching a protest.
= wa*
-- "Eep!"
= [nani] shiten' no yo [Kenshin]!
[The full form of "shiten' no" (or "shitenno") would've been "shite-iru-no", [doing]-[animate-existence]-[thing]; I would've translated "Nani shite iru no yo Kenshin" as "What on earth are you doing, Kenshin?", but somehow I'm not happy with anything I'm coming up with for this.]
-- "What the heck're you doing?!" (expresses the informal contraction, but also inaccurately raises the annoyance level; "Hey! What th--" seems more natural, but doesn't flow into the next line.)
+++
Kenshin cheerfully slides a hand up her leg.
= II KOTO
= GOOD THING
-- "SOMETHING NICE."
[I suppose "nice" should also have its pronunciation slurred, but dunno how to spell that.]
*GOSO GOSO* (SNEAK SNEAK)
She's still off balance, in more ways than one...
= haa?
-- "Huh?"
#3#
...but recovers quickly:
= chotto o-[sake] kusa-i [yo]tten'-no?
= moment sake stinky (being)-drunk?
-- "Wait, you ree...ek of sake-- you drunk?"
[The dash in the middle of "kusai" is written in the original to elongate the previous vowel; I guess I could've also transliterated the word as "kusaai", but didn't feel like it.]
Subtext or authorial comment:
~ [uso] desho--? mezu-rashii
= falsehood must-be--? unusual-[apparently]
-- "It can't be true--? This must be unusual."
["rashii" acts like an independent adjective; depending on what it's following, it can either mean "seems like" or "is typical of".]
Him:
= [yo]tte nai re-gosaru (hikku)
= being-drunk not [copula] [sound effect]
[He has totally messed up his usual formal copula "de-gozaru". Again, I'm preserving the slurred sound rather than the strict translation.]
-- "Of coursh not-- I'm completely shober. (hiccup)"
Her:
= datte [tonari]-de [Yahiko] ga [ne]te no yo
= but/however adjacent [name] [subject/emphasis] sleeping [girly statement] [exclamation]
-- "But-- look at Yahiko, he's sleeping right over there!"
Him:
= [heiki] [heiki]
["heiki" seems to be one of those difficult-to-translate concepts-- emotional balance, perfect composure, serene detachment, something Zen like that. In this context, it could refer to any of the three people in the room.]
-- "No problem, that's fine."
In the foreground, Yahiko is still snoring away:
*kuka--* (sleepy mouth-breathing)
Her:
= na*
[I *think* this is an interrupted "nai", no/not, in which case she's negating his previous line.]
-- "No it's not!"
+++
Kenshin shushes her:
= shi--*
-- "Shhh..."
Her:
= a*
-- "Um"
+++
Then kisses her lips again...
*chu* (kissy)
Her:
= n*
-- "Mmph"
+++
...before working his way down the open front of her yukata with a few more *cho* *cho* kissy sound effects. She is nonplussed.
Her:
= cho* | [shin]jirannai* BAKA* | YA^ME^TE
[The first balloon is probably a truncated "chotto". While I have confirmation elseweb for the translation of "shinjirannai", I'm spacing out on the intermediate stage. The ^s transliterated from the third balloon were centered dots in the original, used for adding even more emphasis than usual. Since I'm not sure how to drop down the formality of the middle line, I'm making the last one more colloquial instead.]
-- "Wai-- | I don't believe this, you idiot! | CUT IT OUT!!!"
+++
She shoves his face away, using both hands. There's a large sound effect in the foreground, but it isn't coming from either Kenshin or Kaoru-- he's mid-frame; her arms are coming out of the lower left corner; the sound effect is coming from the lower right corner-- so I think it's actually Yahiko snoring, since that's one of the possibilities listed in my sound-effect references, and nothing else for this sound matches what K&K are doing right now.
*gugu* ("ZZZZZZ")
#4#
Kenshin looks in the wrong direction.
= son ja [Yahiko] de...
[I'll have to make a guess here because I'm spacing out again and I just realized the wombat-consort and I are going to be out of town all next week, so I'm hoping to finish this translation before then. "Son ja" seems to be an idiomatic remark, probably based on "sono de wa" (that+[semiformal copula]) and variously translated as "anyway", "now then", and so on.]
-- "Is that Yahiko over there?"
Annoyed, she yanks at his ponytail to face the right way.
= KOKO-*
-- "Over HERE."
+++
He waves his hands dismissively.
~ [jodan] de gozaru yo
-- "It's just a joke!"
She's still annoyed, though.
~ sono [gyoukai] ja SHAshi ni nannai no yo...
= [that] industry [copula] [company history?} in not-become? [girly statement] [exclamation]
[I'm not sure that's the right definition for this "shashi", but the general meaning of her sentence seems fairly clear; "nannai" is probably a contraction of "naranai".]
-- "It sure isn't destined for the comedy hall-of-fame!"
+++
Him (still smiling vacantly):
= jaa* [issho]-ni [nemu]ru dake
= [copula] all-at-once sleep(verb) only
-- "Suddenly, I'm about to fall asleep."
~ [nani] mo shinai de-gozaru shi--
= what more not-do [copula] [?]
-- "and not do anything else"
sound effect from somewhere:
*nugi nugi*
[This could be Yahiko again, but since I can't find it on a sound-effects list anywhere, I suspect it's related to the verb "nugu" (see the next line). The artwork isn't definite, but Kenshin may be loosening his own clothing here.]
Yup, she's still annoyed.
= nande [hitoe] made [nu]gu-no kara...
= what-kind [unlined-garment] until disrobing from
[ :b I swear I tried to identify the "hitoe" kanji for three or four days until I gave up and kept going. The right half is mostly a big rectangular blob in my doujinshi copy, and it turns out that the entire kanji is rare enough that it isn't in any of my three dictionaries anyway. Luckily Jim Breen's multiradical kanji search engine came to the rescue just now. Not sure whether the "hitoe" she's referring to is her sleep yukata (technically called "nemaki", but never mind), the inner layer of Kenshin's everyday street clothes, or whatever. There are several possible translations, depending on which words I add in:]
-- "What the-- he's exhausted just from half-removing my yukata?"
-- "What kind of lovemaking is this? It didn't even last until my yukata was off..."
-- "Then why is he stripping down to his underwear?"
[Actually, Kenshin keeps his clothing on from the waist up, but the next few times we get a view of him from the waist down, first his hakana (trouserlike things) looks loose, then his upper clothing is untucked and hanging down, and then his hakama is shedding off like a snakeskin as he rolls around with Kaoru. So I suppose that what just happened here is that he simply untied his hakama. I still don't think it's clear from the artwork, though.]
[But I guess that means the correct translation of Kaoru's line should be:]
-- "Then why is he untying only his hakama?" (instead of also taking off his outer kimono to strip down to a single undergarment, which is probably close enough to nemaki for a very drunk oro-chan), or maybe
-- "Is that the only reason he's taking his clothes off?"
+++
But then suddenly he leans close again, making her heart pound loudly.
= datte... [ima] SUKU [Kaoru-dono] ga [ho]shii kara...
= despite/therefore... now empty(verb)? [name+honorific] desired/pleasing [subject emphasis] from...
[As a brief reminder, "hoshii" functions as an adjective but the smoothest translation into English is generally the verb "to like", hence "neko wa hoshii" ~ "I like cats" (or "Me gustan los gatos" for gratuitous Spanish); "ima suku" seems to be an idiom for "right now", perhaps in a sense of "empty out the present moment, because this other thing I'm about to say is urgent"? I think this is actually the first time in this piece where Kenshin's addressed her as "Kaoru-dono", using the slightly archaic honorific he uses for all women.]
-- "But still... right now, Mistress Kaoru, since you wish it..."
Her: *DOKI-* (KA-THOOMP)
+++
He glomps her again: *gyuu* (glomp)
On the other side of the room, Yahiko rolls over and makes a noise.
Yahiko:
*u...n (ka)* ("Mmph (sigh)*)
Kaoru:
*ha-* ("Eep!")
+++
Kenshin:
= [Kaoru-dono] no naka ni [sessha] no [sakabatou] wo [noutou] sasete [ho]shii de-gozaru
= [name+title] 's inside in [pronoun] 's reverse-blade-sword [object] sword-sheathing-technique cause-to-do desired [copula]
[Kenshin's still using his special self-referential humble pronoun, for which this time I'm not using Viz's streamlined translation as "this one" because it's funnier the other way. Under normal circumstances, his sakabatou is the mutant katana he uses in combat; he was wearing it when he walked into this room, but by the end of page 2, it had fallen out of his waistband onto the floor and is pretty much never seen again. Just as well, really. His old nom-de-guerre, "Battousai", was based on his mastery of battoujutsu (the practice of sword-drawing techniques); "noutoujutsu" is the equivalent for the proper techniques of resheathing the katana.]
-- "This unworthy person wishes to sheathe his sword deep within Mistress Kaoru."
She's rather upset by his declaration (I couldn't figure out how to phrase it in a way that didn't also sound like a battle challenge, but she doesn't seem to be concerned in that sense), as well as by his resumed tonguework on her torso.
= na*-[nani] [baka]-na koto [i]tten'-no yo*
= [noise] what idiotic thing saying [exclamation]
["baka na" is probably a colloquial version of "baka no"?]
-- "Wh-- what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"
= yappari koko ja DAME
= as-expected there [copula] FORBIDDEN
-- "I knew it! GET AWAY from there!"
#5#
She turns around to crawl out from under him.
= sore ni [sakabatou] wa [ippon] de [juubun] yo*
= that in sakabatou [topic] single with/from enough [exclamation]
["ippon" is a counting word based on "hon", which seems to have originated in the concept "treetrunk" and has since diversified from there into the meanings "basis" and "book" (via "paper scroll"?), among others. The types of objects counted with "hon" include living plants and long/cylindrical things (heh).]
-- "And for that matter, one sakabatou is already enough for you!"
Him: "Oro?"
+++
He recovers from his surprise quickly, though:
= kotchi [shinu]chi de-gozaru yo
= this-direction exemplar [copula] [exclamation]
["kotchi" = informal for "kochira"]
[Literally, "shinuchi" means something like true-strike; the word can indicate a person such as a master craftsman/artisan, or to an object that could only be made by someone like that. (I don't think the word "masterpiece" would be entirely accurate for the latter, since iirc a masterpiece was originally the equivalent of a guild journeyman's graduate thesis.) However, in the specific context of RK, "shinuchi" was used to describe Kenshin's replacement sakabatou; made by the same smith who forged the first sakabatou, it was essentially the apotheosis of the Platonic ideal sakabatou and had been dedicated to a Shinto shrine during the intervening years.]
-- "But this here's the perfect original!"
+++
*ba* ("whump")
[The sound-effect glossary explains "ba" as "sudden impact". What can I say?]
Kaoru experiences sudden impact, up close and personal.
= ya--*
-- "Ack!"
+++
*GOSO GOSO* ("rustle rustle")
Him:
= ushiro wa [to]tta de-gozaru
= behind [topic] caught [copula]
[More swordplay puns, I think; "ushiro" can refer to a sword blow into the back. Since there are no pronouns, he could be talking about himself grabbing Kaoru or her "catching" his, er, sakabatou.]
-- "Caught from behind!"
Her:
= DAME | mada atashi... [nu]rete nai SO da 'tte wa...
= FORBIDDEN | not-yet I... getting-wet/making-love not this-way [copula] [annoyance] [girly emotion]
-- "STOP THAT! | Sheesh, not yet... I'm not getting wet like this, darn you...
#6#
Poor girl, she means it.
= i^ | ** | tatata*
[In this panel, the ^ marks represent the little pain-stars that punctuate various forms of "itai", an adjective which means "painful" and is the usual exclamation of painful surprise, or surprised pain.]
-- "Ow! | (gasp) | ow ow ow--"
Sadly, he is an oblivious bonehead...
= [daijobu] de-gozaru yo
-- "That's okay, really."
+++
...until she gives him a Glare Of Death over her shoulder.
-- "Oro?"
~ dakara MURIYARI wa iya da 'tte no-ni
= therefore regardless-of-consent [topic] unpleasant [copula] [annoyance] although/despite
["muriyari" is nearly an exact parallel to the English "willy-nilly"; I'm flipping the double negative in translation because I feel like it. At the end of a sentence, "no ni" indicates dissatisfaction.]
-- "This is why cooperation is a good idea, darn it; I told you that already."
+++
He is abashed with the mighty cluestick!
+++
When she sits up, dismounting him, he collapses into a little pile of contrition in her lap:
= gomen...
-- "I'm sorry..."
[Huh. Apparently, unlike "o-kaeri nasai", the first half of "gomen nasai" isn't verb-based; instead, it's a noun meaning "amnesty/pardon/permission" with a different honorific tacked onto the front, so really it breaks down as "go-men nasai". I was going to make this note much longer, but I think I'd better just write up an entirely different post on the subject.]
*gyuto-*
[the sound of him clutching her waist, I think? "huggles"?]
+++
Cautiously, she strokes his hair and says his name in hiragana.
= ken... shin?
#7#
He's still sorry.
= gomen...
+++
She ponders this for a silent frame, then blushes.
= neE | [Kenshin]...
-- "Say, | Kenshin...?"
[I'm pretty sure the next frame is supposed to be the one at the bottom of the page, instead of the one at the left edge.]
+++
= [atashi]-no koto... [su]ki?
[Since "suki" is really a nounlike adjective rather than a verb, a copula such as "da" or "desu" is understood to exist at the end of the sentence even though it's been omitted, if that makes any sense. The whole expression is idiomatic; on a literal level, it means something like "Are my attributes pleasing (to you)?" or "Is there something about me that you like?"]
= "Do you... love me?"
+++
Awww, just look at oro-chan's big sad eyes.
= suki de-gozaru yo | [Kaoru-dono]...
-- "I do love you | Mistress Kaoru..."
#8#
She blushes even more as he nuzzles her shoulder.
*kaaa* ("blush"; bet you didn't know there was a *sound effect* for blushing, did you?)
+++
Sadly, at this point, Kenshin breaks the romantic mood.
*HIKKU* ("HICCUP")
+++
She tries to shove him away again, but he has a firm grasp on her, um, affections? He keeps nuzzling her:
~ suki suki
-- "lovey lovey"
While she protests:
= eei [hana]se* | kono [yo]p[para]i me--*
= [exclamation] release(command form) | this drunk-person(slang) [?]
[I don't know what the rest of her "me--" word is.]
-- "Heeey, let go of me! | You boozehound!"
~ [yo]wanakya [i]eru no ka
<- [yo]wanakereba [i]eru no ka
= if-not-drunk can-be-said(by Kenshin) [particle] [particle]
[In this case, I'm not certain which particle is doing what; both of them cast a general aura of doubt, though. Several possible translations again, what with the omitted pronouns:]
-- "Would he really be talking like this if he wasn't drunk?" (i.e., his goofiness is proving that he's drunk after all)
-- "Can you still say that when you're sober?" (does he really love her, or is it just the sake fumes talking to her?)
+++
= [hana]...
-- "Let--"
He interrupts her with more smooching. Several pages of slightly naughty drawings follow, with surprisingly few sound effects.
#9#
No sound effects here...
#10#
Or here either...
#11#
But Yahiko starts to wake up anyway.
*piku* (twitch)
+++
*peki* (blink?)
+++
*muku* (sitting up)
Yahiko sits up, blearily rubbing his eyes at Kenshin and Kaoru in the middle of their activities.
+++
At this point, both of them have their own sound effects. This one is an extreme version of "kichi kichi" (packed full, at the limit, close to the edge, etc.)
Him: *gitchi*
= N...
-- "nh..."
Her: *gitchi*
= ha*
-- "ah--"
#12#
Kaoru turns her head...
= N...
-- "nh..."
+++
...and notices Yahiko sitting up at them. She grabs Kenshin's face and turns it in that direction.
*guin* (ker-grab)
Kenshin:
= oro
+++
= SA--*
[hiss of surprise?]
~ [yo]i mo sameta rashii
= intoxicated also became-cold/awake apparent
[There are two different "sameru" verbs, but without kanji, I can't tell which one this is supposed to be. It's probably the wakey verb as part of an idiom for sobering up, but the chilly verb may also be involved as a pun.]
-- "and he seems to sober up" (and/or "and he seems to cool down")
+++
Kaoru:
= YA...
Kenshin:
= HIKO
[One last hiccup for the night?]
+++
~ shikashi [Yahiko] imada-ni [yume] no [naka]...
= however [name] still dream 's middle...
-- "However, Yahiko is still in the middle of a dream..."
*HOaa* (sigh/yawn?)
[Actually, I find Yahiko's next lines surprisingly poignant; even though now he usually acts like a smartmouthed punk toward Kaoru, here he's reverted to the ultra-polite speech he must've been raised with by his samurai parents when they were still alive. He's even using the ultra-polite honorific suffix that literally means "above".]
Yahiko:
= [haha]-[ue] mo [chichi]-[ue] mo | [maiban] imada-ni [taihen]-da yo na
= mother-exalted also father-exalted also | every-night still serious/awful [exclamation] [male emotional emphasis]
-- "Both my noble lady mother and my noble lord father | even now, every night-- truly, this is terrible of them."
~ go-kurou ga
= [honorific]-effort [subject emphasis]
[Snert. This is modified from a specialized form of thanks, "go-kurou-sama (deshita)", which can be appropriately spoken to superiors in praise of their hard work.]
-- "Indeed, it is a glorious and mighty effort."
#13#
With that, Yahiko flops back down onto his futon.
= guu *koten*
-- "Snzz" *plop*
+++
Kaoru:
= shi... [shi]nu ka to [omo]tta...
= [sound]... die [question] [indirect statement] thought...
-- "I... I thought I was going to die..."
~ nebokete te yokatta
= becoming-half-awake/asleep [?] was-good
[There's definitely a second "te" there. I don't know what it's doing. She might still be stuttering, or it could be equivalent to the particle "de"(until?)]
-- "It's a good thing he only woke up halfway."
Kenshin:
= [sessha] mo
-- "This unworthy person as well..."
+++
Kenshin:
= [ima]-no-de [na]ete shimatta de-gozaru
= just-now withered finished [copula]
[Oh, the embarrassment; also, "shimatta" is often an isolated exclamation translated as "dammit!")
-- "I've just gone completely limp."
Kaoru:
= [tsuzu]ki... [Kenshin] no [heya] de suru?
= continuation/sequel... [name] 's chamber in do
-- "Why don't we... go to your room to try again?
+++
Kenshin:
= somo-somo nande [sessha] | [Kaoru-dono]-no [heya] ni niru de-gozaru?
= first-of-all why [pronoun] (possessive)| Mistress-Kaoru's chamber in become-similar [copula]?"
[I'm not sure about the meaning for that onomatopoeia; it isn't in my standard references, so I have to guess from Google results.]
-- "The chamber of this humble person? But why? | It's very much like Mistress Kaoru's chamber."
(or in less stilted diction, "Why my room? It's just like yours."
~ [kon'ya] wa chito [no]misugi de do--mo [kioku] GA...
= tonight [topic] small-amount excessive-drinking from very/somehow memory [subject emphasis] (copula)
["chito" is probably a variant of "chotto"; I don't have all of the grammar sorted out, but I'll make a guess at fitting the pieces together anyway:]
-- "Because he drank too much tonight, his memory is very short..."
+++
She gapes at him dumbfounded...
#14#
...before bestowing upon him the Kamiya Fist of Pain.
= [ware] no [wasu]reru-no mo taigai ni shiro--*
= myself 's forgetting-about(noun) also mostly in do(command)
-- "You might as well forget about me, too!"
*doBAn* ("ka-POW!")
Kenshin:
= O* RO*
+++
She crashes back down onto her futon by herself.
*ba fu* ("whump" + "sigh")
~ [Kenshin] no BAKA*!!
= [tai]shita [shinu]chi de-koto*
= great masterwork sort-of-thing
-- "The great, perfect original-- hah!"
(or, "What kind of master-work was *that*?")
Awwww, look at oro-baka's dazed swirly eyes.
= na... [nani] no HANASHI de-gozaru--
-- "Wh-- whatever happened to 'let me go!'...?"
+++
And then Kenshin goes drinking with Sano again the next night, because he learned nothing from this experience.
= [Sano]... nande [Kaoru-dono] wa [oku]tte 'ru-no de-gozaruu ka? *haa*
= [name]... why [name] [topic] getting-angry being(noun) [copula] [question] [noise]
[The particular combination of "okutte'ru" confuses me; he's not just asking about why she got mad last night, he's discussing it as if the process of her getting mad is something that's still happening-- does it keep happening over and over again, or it is just that she's maintaining her anger at him, or is he just using weird grammar because he's already had too much sake for tonight?]
-- "Sano... wh--y is Mistress Kaoru still being angry?" (sigh)
Helpfully, Sano pours out more sake.
= [tochuu] de YAMEta kara ja ne-- no?
= on-the-path from stopped because [copula] [negative] [informal question]
-- "Because you stopped partway, or isn't that it?"
+++
~owari jan~
<- owari de-wa-nai
= ending [negative copula]
-- "the end (not)"
[Oof.]