English translation of Miss Sherlock novelization excerpt
As many of you must know, there is a novelization of Miss Sherlock, and an excerpt has been posted online here. Unfortunately for us mortals, said excerpt is only in Japanese. Now, I’ve never translated anything before and I haven’t taken a Japanese class in about 4 years now, but my thirst for new content is this intense. Hopefully I’ll give the whole novel a try once I obtain a copy.
Neither Japanese or English is my mother tongue, so sorry for any grammatical errors or awkward translations.
A few translation notes:
I messed with the structure and occasional word choice a little bit to make it flow better in English, but the gist of the original text is all there (I hope)
On that same vein, I didn’t include honorifics and went for a name-surname format
Wato doesn’t seem to like Reimon very much and I don’t know why
Wato’s first impressions of Sherlock are unreal
Japanese onomatopoeia (of which they are unbelievably fond) are nigh impossible to translate
I like the extra characterization Wato gets as the POV of the narration
As room and flat/apartment are used interchangeably in Japanese I am still not entirely sure Sherlock actually has a bedroom
Shihori Kanjiya plays Dr. Wato Tachibana who was born to parents who are both doctors and is herself a gifted surgeon with a strong sense of justice. Against her parents’ wishes, she joined a medical mission in Syria. Her life changes when she meets Sherlock at a crime scene for the first time and the pair begins to solve a string of bizarre cases.(x)
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