Sakigake Chamorro #6: Attack on Titan
I haven’t done this in a while, but I’m traveling this week
and so it gives me quite a bit of down time on planes, with little to do other
than get airsick. A few years ago I was watching quite a bit of anime and one
thing I really enjoyed doing was taking anime theme songs, from shows like
Gantz, Naruto and Cromartie High School and then translating them into
Chamorro. Each translation was an interesting experiment, since although many
of these shows are considered to be low-plebian culture, pop culture animated
shadows on the cave wall for the masses, the lyrics to the theme songs tend to
have a very epic and sophisticated feel to them.These songs presented interesting challenges
since translating them directly would be difficult and not necessarily match
well with Chamorro. But finding ways of expressing similar epic thoughts in
Chamorro, while trying to maintain a sense of the language would be fun and
worthwhile.
I still read manga regularly even if I don’t watch any anime anym…
I still read manga regularly even if I don’t watch any anime anym…