3 December 2013

Sneewittchen (last updated Dec. 30)

So I've talked about Morohoshi Daijirou in my Some Thoughts #6 post and I mentioned being quite impressed with his take on the Little Mermaid fairy tale. That's why when I saw he had a 1-volume collection of his take on Grimm's Fairy Tales, I knew I had to translate it. The un-neutered original version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, as you probably know, include very bizarre and grotesque stories, which makes it a perfect fit with Morohoshi's style. The highlight of the volume is definitely his spin on Snow White and Rapunzel, but there're other interesting chapters. Some are relatively straight adaptations while others have a sci-fi, horror, mystery, or even a comedy-twist.

One more thing to mention, since I'm releasing this chapter by chapter, I thought it would be nice to include the author's commentary section immediately after each chapter instead of saving them for the end of the volume. This section includes a short summary of the original fairy tale as well as the author's thoughts, so I encourage you to not gloss them over like most people do with these kinds of stuff.
Die wunderlische Gasterei. Translated either as "The Strange Feast" or  "The Strange Inn" in English, while titled as "The Strange Invitation" in Japanese. A very strange story only found in the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Morohoshi does a wonderful job in making the story even more bizarre.
Although Morohoshi "says" he didn't tamper too much with the original story, it seems to me his subtle changes to "The Fisherman and his Wife" had quite a drastic effect on the whole. You can hardly call this a story about greed anymore.
"If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame." That sounds like one hell of a creepy-looking kid. Glad to see Morohoshi picked up on it and subverted the story in a way that fits so well.
Oh dem Germans and their weird stories about sausages.
From the commentary at the end, it seems Morohoshi isn't too proud of this one. Still, I personally really enjoyed it, and I have to say it's tied as my favourite of this collection along with Snow White. I should go look for his other mentioned manga and the alternate version of Rapunzel eventually.
Oh man, do I ever love Morohoshi's take on this bizarre fairy tale. Hilarious stuff.
This chapter was the most entertaining to translate so far. Quite humorous.
It's rather odd that I never actually knew the original story of Puss in Boots before reading this manga.

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23 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 December 2013 at 00:35

    Thanks a lot!

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  2. Anonymous4 December 2013 at 03:03

    >Sneewittchen
    Is that intentional? Because correctly it should be "Schneewittchen".

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    1. Hox4 December 2013 at 03:08

      http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm053.html

      >Both elements of the heroine's name Sneewittchen are in Low German, although the tale itself was recorded in High German. The High German form of the heroine's name would be Schneeweisschen or Schneeweißchen.

      tl;dr
      It's intentional and it's accurate.

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    2. Anonymous4 December 2013 at 08:21

      Fucking prussians.

      Thanks for the info.

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    3. Nobilitatis19 December 2013 at 07:05

      Schneeweisschen (and Rosenrot) is another of Grimms tales. For folk tales as collected from the Brothers Grimm there is no "correct" form since there are several German dialects. Lower German you mast think about Dutch. Prussians are People with a different (Baltic) language which does not exist anymore since the fall of Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, belonging to Russia) in 1945.
      The Strange Inn is well translated. But "wunderlich" and "Gasterei" are so oldfashioned words that it would not be used anywhere.
      White Skin, red lips and black hair are supposed to be beautiful and noble, unlike today. Not scary at all.
      Ah, and thank you very much for your good work. I appreciate it much. (Missing Vinland a bit.)

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  3. ilovekazehikaru4 December 2013 at 08:09

    Gantz Waiting Room also released a oneshot collection which is a humorous take on Grimm's Fairy Tales by Otomo. Plus this thing, both wraps up my year purrfecly!! Thank you very much!

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  4. Unknown4 December 2013 at 08:15

    Hey friends! I was wondering if you could provide me with the "raw" of this manga and give permissions to use your translation by to then translate this manga to the Spanish. If this were possible all credits will be given to Hox Translations as God commands ^^'

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    1. Hox4 December 2013 at 16:24

      http://raw-hunters.com/raw-scan/grimm-no-you-na-monogatari-snow-white-raw-zip/

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  5. Anonymous4 December 2013 at 10:30

    Thanks for always bringing interesting manga to us Hox. Stay great!

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  6. Anonymous5 December 2013 at 08:55

    Thanks Hox for this awesome manga. Do you know how many chapters have this volume?

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    1. Hox5 December 2013 at 09:37

      There's a table of contents page in chapter 1, page 4. 12 in total.

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  7. Anonymous6 December 2013 at 10:51

    Recently, I thought about reading the orignals. I ended up not doing it, but this will do for the time being.

    Thanks a lot, Hox.

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  8. Anonymous6 December 2013 at 23:12

    Thank so much.

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  9. Anonymous11 December 2013 at 08:38

    Just want to say thanks for including the author's commentary with chapter really enjoy reading them following the story!

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  10. Anonymous11 December 2013 at 13:28

    Hox, my friend, I have a recommendation a manga recommendation for you to translate: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=59192

    Is by the same author of Sneewitchen.

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  11. AymenBK9713 December 2013 at 11:25

    hi hox
    i wonder if you're going to re-work on historie vol 8 or not

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    1. Hox13 December 2013 at 13:11

      I am but if you're asking because you want to take a shot at doing it, that would be nice as you'd save me the time. If not, maybe next Feb?

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  12. Anonymous28 December 2013 at 04:38

    Hoxman, will it have a single volume download after you end the translation?

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  13. animeycartoonclasico11 December 2018 at 18:43

    hello could re-upload the chapters again and the links are down. Thank you

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    1. Hox12 December 2018 at 02:27

      https://mega.co.nz/#F!119QSBhS!bCe22AtmY6puabi3XL5b1A

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    2. Hox12 December 2018 at 02:27

      https://mega.nz/#F!119QSBhS!bCe22AtmY6puabi3XL5b1A!UwM3zQrQ

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  14. animeycartoonclasico12 December 2018 at 07:29

    ¡thank you very much!

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