Share a quote or excerpt from a LN and we have to guess where it’s from.
“Debauchee [REDACTED NAME], however, couldn’t care less about social norms. After all, she was currently invincible! Nothing—well, mostly nothing, aside from inherently scary things that would go unmentioned—could stand in her way! At last, her chicken-heartedness had ascended to a higher state. It had leapt for the peaks of lionheartedness, scraped the edge with its feet, failed to hang on, and tumbled back down to an intermediate ledge. She was now…pig-hearted! Not as prone to squawking as before, but it couldn’t quite manage a majestic roar either. It simply oinked. Hopefully, her newfound porkiness would remain an attribute of her heart and not an adjective for her tummy…”
I am guessing this is one that I haven’t read/watched. Describing somebody as a debauchee made me think of Aqua from Konosuba. However, she doesn’t really get scared of things like the undead, more angry. The scared bit made me think of Risa from Bofuri, but she doesn’t fit the first part.
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It’s Mia from Tearmoon Empire. I love the play on words in this excerpt so much. It was this or
“Mia, after all, was no spring chicken when it came to botching her lines. She was a seasoned botcher, a sinewy old bird who’d seen some droppings. A mere blunder of the tongue would not shake her.”
The translation of the early volumes was just soooo good.
I haven’t read/watched it, but that does check out based on what I know of the story. I find it fun when authors/translators get real playful with the language like that. Why do we have all these words if you aren’t going to use them?
Honestly, I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to translate a humorous work so dependent on wit. I still hope to someday get someone who’s fluent in Japanese and English to compare a volume of Tearmoon. I want to know how much of that wit is in the source material and how much is added by the translator. And what the source witticisms are. Does Japanese for example have animal allegories for courage and the lack thereof? Would the source maybe use different animals? Is there a Tiger- and Dragon-hearted Mia in the source that only reaches a cat-heartedness that miows?
Quote 1 -
Why, at this rate I’ll have to write the books myself, and then I can become a librarian like I always wanted!
Answer - Quote 1
Didn’t I say to make my abilities average
Quote 2 -
Lemme go, [Redacted]! Insulting me is one thing, but I cannot let him get away with insults to the demon king and my subordinates! Otherwise, I am a failure as minister of agriculture!
Answer - Quote 2
I’ve been killing slimes for 300 years (Sample from - I have been a buricrate for 1500 years)
Quote 3 -
Anyway, now that I’m back home, I’ve wasted no time doing some follow-up investigations. The Colonel’s gonna look out for the elves until they reach the border, but there’s no telling what’ll happen after that.
Answer - Quote 3
So I’m a spider, so what?
The job title for #2 gave it away for me. I think that is the only example of a Minister of Agriculture I can think of. Also, include me in the list of people completely wrong on #1.
That’s harder than I imagined. Especially #1 was a trap.
I knew I would get someone with Number 1.
I thought Number 2 would be easy if you have seen the anime or read the LN up to meeting the character. It’s quite a unique position.
My initial thought for #2 was Realist Hero because of the minister of agriculture, but the demon king was a strike against it. After reading the answer I remembered the position Beelzebub had.
