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About the JP translation

The official Japanese release of MDZS is published by Frontier Works, and translated by 鄭穎馨 (Zhèng Yǐngxīn? Cheng Ying Hsin?). The Japanese translation separates the story into 4 main volumes and an extra booklet. Why is beyond me. Volume 4 already contains half the extras. Another thing they do is instead of subdivide each chapter into parts the way the original web novel does, the chapters are all combined under one big header... making each “chapter” at least 50 pages long. For the English point of reference, I will be using the ExR translation, given that it does not combine the headers.

Volume 1 Table of Contents!

Revision from my initial thread on tumblr: finding English equivalents for some of these was especially rough, since there were some words I could only find in a Japanese kokugo dictionary, rather than a Japanese-English dictionary. It took some extrapolation...

JP chapter title	EN trans	ExR chapter titles	7S chapter titles	Comments
1. 復活	Resurrection	Reincarnation	Reincarnation	reasonable margin of error.
2. 荒狂	Rampage	Aggression	The Intractable	荒狂 is a nonstandard spelling of 荒れ狂う as in “to rampage”.
3. 驕傲	Pride, Arrogance	Arrogance	The Prideful	reasonable margin of error.
4. 雅騒	Elegance and Clamor	Refinement	The Elegant Flirt	This is not a word in any capacity I could find. I'm convinced it's copy pasta. Even Japanese people were stumped. I am shoving an unmarked "and" in there because Classical (and modern!) Chinese lets you do that, and for consistency with the Lan clan motto, which also has an unmarked "and" shoved in there.
5. 陽陽	Brightness, Calm	Contentment	The Sunny Pair	This feels like a stretch...
6. 陰悪	Malicious	Malice	The Malevolent	I like "Malevolence".
7. 朝露	Morning Dew	Dew	The Morning Dew	A prime example of ExR's tendency to just drop adjectives.
8. 草木	Vegetation	Grasses	The Stalk of Grass	According to ExR's notes, this is an allusion to a poem by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu. I'll translate that later, and possibly change my translation then.