始めよう！グルーヴコースター / You Want Me to Be a Groover?!

アイ！　ラブ！　ミュージック！ matches I! Love! Music! exactly. But Fwuff’s song in Japanese is “I! Love! Mu!” (アイ！　ラブ！　ミュー！), so this is an introduction to that phrase in full first.

Fuku buchou (副部長) will also be used often for the vice-president of the GC club at other schools. It seems like English is going with the captain all the way. I think in most translated manga they use vice-president for fuku buchou?

Whether it’s “captain” or “president”, English lack the built-in “bu” 部 inside the word that means club. So keep in mind that “club” stick with these nouns everywhere from here on. There are lots of words made with 部 like entering the club, club activity, club disbandment, etc. where English tends to have to remove, understandably, since having “club” floating everywhere make it worse.

I think it is more flavorful that you read in your mind as Buchou for captain and Fuku Buchou for vice-captain, even while you are reading in English. (e.g. “X is a fuku buchou of Y school’s GC club.“)

She says he should call her Kyano-senpai. But in English it degrades to the same “Cannie” that Fwuff uses, where the Japanese has him say Kyano-san. This also means she’s a little bit proud that she’ll have a “kouhai” who will call her “senpai”.

This is a huge loss of fun nuance! The dynamic is supposed to be a little girl who’s actually a 2nd year, and Kakeru has to use -senpai accordingly. Actually he will have to -senpai almost everyone since he’s a 1st year, unless he’s talking with another 1st year. But with Canon especially, it’s adorable because it looks mismatched but is technically proper. The “Cannie” that English has to use sounds WAY too equal.

You see, it hits completely differently. In Japanese he even uses “wakarimashita” for “I understand” in the polite form, like he’s completely respecting her now that she revealed she’s a second year. In English, they will have to shift the tone around to match “Cannie” from this point on.

I could say that each time Kakeru and Canon are on screen at the same time, it’s almost certainly better in Japanese.

Here you could ask Canon why she prefers to be called Kyano-senpai. The Japanese version proceeds to compare it with the version with the “n” ン (Kyanon-senpai), which is a much smaller difference than in English.

In Japanese, Fwuff starts using Kakeru-kun from now on. It makes him sound more down to earth than in the English one. The “ne” in “gomenne” and the “kana?” also help, and they are all gone in English, which sounds more strict.