Anonymous asked:

One of the TY2's scene (Rinko) has a pun with words 'come' and 'cum'. I'm curious - Has the Japanese version the same pun?

Sort of. Whereas we use "come" as our slang for "have an orgasm", the Japanese use "go". That means that whenever there's a double entendre involving the word, the meaning has to be awkwardly inverted.

That particular scene was such a massive pain, because Kuroi kept saying things that didn't make any sense, and which had to both signal what was happening to the audience and not arouse suspicion in Tatsurou. I think the original sentence was something along the lines of, "She'll be back after I go," with "go" spelled in katakana during Rinko's version, to signify unambiguously that it was being used in a sexual sense.

I tried so many different versions of this, looking to find one that worked as a double-entendre, wouldn't seem obvious to Tatsurou, and would still make logical sense. Eventually, I decided that the things he was saying didn't make any sense in the original Japanese anyway (which was why Tatsurou was always confused by them), so there was no point in trying too hard on that last one.

A worse instance in that scene was when Kuroi made Tatsurou face the door, telling him, "That's right. Look carefully. There's something to do with/related to Rinko." That single line took me a whole night. From Tatsurou's perspective, he's being told that something about the door relates to where Rinko is, and he's confused. From the opposite perspective, he's merely being told to turn around and face the door, and when he questions it, Kuroi's reply can be interpreted as, "Look carefully. I'm having sex with Rinko." I spent hours coming up with different rewrites for that line, deliberating over whether they reworked the sentences too heavily, and whether they both communicated the double entendre, and were still subtle enough for Tatsurou to not catch on. The best compromise I could come up with was, "Look carefully, and you'll find something has relations with Rinko."