admiral, hibiki, inazuma, ikazuchi, and akatsuki (kantai collection) drawn by kadose_ara

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    A Shipgirl has been assigned to the Apartment, hasn't she!! Part 32

    Inazuma's really proud of it for some reason.

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    Paracite
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    NNescio said:

    Took a shot at the puns. Hope you don't mind, Paracite.

    Pesky NHK man took me away from translating. Unfortunately, this is a pretty terrible pun (not as bad as Ouno's...).

    The later puns are bad, since while I could go with Horizon Train, harasha/harasho can't really be done that well...

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    Paracite said:

    Pesky NHK man took me away from translating. Unfortunately, this is a pretty terrible pun (not as bad as Ouno's...).

    The later puns are bad, since while I could go with Horizon Train, harasha/harasho can't really be done that well...

    Oh, screw those guys. Having the audacity to collect from people who didn't even own TVs, sheesh. He didn't mark your house or vandalize the exteriors, right? Heard very bad things about some of them.

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    Paracite said:

    Nah, I convinced him that I didn't have a TV (I don't). They just never got the news that I'm a new tenant and they were calling to collect on the unpaid dues from them.

    IIRC they can legally collect fees from people who have "a device with a TV-viewing function", which includes smartphones, as determined by a certain retarded judge. Of course, the flip side of this is that you can't be fined or sanctioned for not paying the fees, unless there's a direct court order or something (usually happens to poor saps who unwittingly sign a contract or otherwise start paying. Then it's hard to get out of the trouble.)

    Paracite said:

    ...The later puns are bad, since while I could go with Horizon Train, harasha/harasho can't really be done that well...

    Horizon Train works quite well. For Hibiki, I'm thinking of xoровоз (khorovoz), which is basically a portmanteau of хорошo (khorosho) and паровоз (parovoz). The latter means train in Russian, or a steam locomotive to be exact. Functionally, since the a and o's are unstressed (all schwas) in khorosho and parovoz, khorovoz has pretty much the same pronunciation as parovoz except for the initial 'p' being replaced with a 'h' sound.

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