Shadowrun (MCD) (w/ captioning) - 01
Channel: WingWang5000
Date: 2013-04-25

Welcome, chummers!

This video was first uploaded April 26th, 2013. It's old, but it'll do. Obviously, in the 10 years since this was uploaded, I became ... busy.

I'm well aware that I'm not "da bess" at Japanese. Additionally, I'm going to take certain liberties with the script, as I try and express what the game is communicating. I am open to criticism(s) though, and if others point out egregious errors on my part, I'm happy to adjust the captions. I will try and go through various story branches in order to maximise the amount of translated text, but I can't guarantee I'm going to be able to get everything shown, guys.

I'm not going to commentate for this LP because it's simply too much work, and it wouldn't be "entertaining". Last of all, and this is very important: Please don't expect videos to come out with *any* regularity; this really does take a lot of my spare time to do. If I'm going too slow for you all, you'll just have to accept my apologies.

ALRIGHT!!!  ENJOY!!!



**Notes**



[1] I really don't know an appropriate translation for 愛気; I've not encountered this compound word before. It might be a neologism, for all I know.

[2] 辻斬り (tsujigiri) literally means the act of testing a new katana on a living body (I used some artistic license, in other words). I'm guessing it's a word dating back to the Edo period, where naughty people got their bits chopped off to test blades. Grisly stuff.

[3] Was tempted to go with 'The "Slasher" Incident' instead of homicide, but the common compound for "homicide" in Japanese is 殺人事件 (satsujin jiken) anyway, and the dude's dead, so I'm not overly concerned with this change.

[4] コト was another word that had me stumped, but an obscure dictionary gave a translation of 'kin', so that's what I went with. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

[5] After re-examining some canon, the situation is.. complicated regarding police. This game was written to conform with Japan canon (published by Fujimi-shobo), and basically changes a whole bunch of established FASA canon. So, what I'm going to do is this: Tokyo will have the 'Japanese Imperial State' (JIS) police force, and I will just call them 'police'/'cops'.

Yokohama will have 'Sakura Security' (Yakashima Corp). Shiawase Corp is based in Osaka, and unless this game ends up going there, I won't use 'Desert Storm Security' (DSS). Similarly, 'Fuchi Corporate Services' (FCS) won't make an appearance unless I think it's suitable (i.e. Renraku and/or a trip to Chiba).