my name is bada kusuma I'm from Syria and I live in Japan right now I
translated Captain Tsubasa to Arabic it's a story about a kid who lives his
life just to play football and his dream is to make Japan when football World Cup
Captain Tsubasa I used to be really famous in Arab countries they used to
show the anime on TV and it wasn't known actually as Captain Tsubasa is known as
Captain Majid actually when I was a kid I used to watch at Allah is just like
all our people used to watch it it's like when they doing it on TV you won't
see any kids in the street because everybody just watching it it was a
completely different story they changed the whole story and he wasn't a Japanese
kid it would he was an Arab kid one of the reasons why I tried so hard not to
change anything in my translation this time I wanted to
make my manga a way of delivering that Japanese culture to other people
manga translation from Japanese to Arabic is not a real thing
actually they're saying that what I translated was the first Japanese manga
being translated to Arabic officially there were there were a lot of hard
stuff like like the culture differences for example like in our countries you
know like drinking alcohol is not a thing as you know but inside the manga
there were some scenes where where one of the coaches is drinking alcohol and
you can't just keep that as it is in the manga and because you won't be able to
publish it so I had to just make it vague like like I didn't write it's not
alcohol and I also did not write it's alcohol another hard thing things that I
really faced it was a motto pay Japanese is really rich often on a
motorway and they use it every day Rihanna motto pay is really important to
manga because it makes it easier for you to imagine stuff so when you have all
that no mater around the painting and like you like it
gets you inside the atmosphere of the manga maybe for example how would you
write the sound of someone knocking the door that was the process was it a
little bit hard and also there was another thing the dialect in the
Japanese manga they use a lot of dialects okay and it's written in a
really casual way and that what makes it special actually but most of the
contents in Arabic is written in standard Arabic and we don't use in
everydays life okay we use dialects just translating the manga in Standard Arabic
it's like it makes it harshest makes it like not fun to read I I'm from Syria so
I speak Sri and I like but I don't know if I write it in the Syrians I like
people from Morocco will understand or not so what I had to do is just try as
much as I can use something casual like casual words in Arabic when I'm
translating and in the same time when I think maybe other people won't
understand this sentence or this way of saying how to ask people from other
people from other countries some words do exist only in Japanese so if you want
to translate them you have to try to translate them in the in a sentence and
you have this small books to fill it all in
sometimes it's not enough so you have to think of the best way to translate that
this thing in the shortest way to fit it in the small books sometimes I had to
make the phone smaller sometimes a hat just to change it not change the meaning
of the sentence but just make it have the same meaning but in different words
I used to love Captain Tsubasa but when you're translating it
at some sort of point you're like no I hate you a lot I don't want to translate
you but but when when the whole thing is done when you get the book translated
when it's printed out and you get it you're like you feel like that you've
done something yeah next Monday part 3 we have could SWAT HEA telling us how to
storyboard what more do you need monday could SWAT HEA how to draw a
manga part 3