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Uramachi Sakaba (lit. "Backstreet Pub," but that sounds dumb so I broke my usual rule of being sure to localize everything and kept the Japanese name) is an indy slice of life-ish comic about a bunch of barflies who are regulars at a little unnamed bar in a deep sub-level of a cyberpunk-ish megacity. It's self-published - web and self-printed zines essentially - and AFAIK I'm the only person translating it to English and this and the other webcomic thread are thus the only place to read it in English. People have described it as "Cyberpunk Cheers" and that's probably as on-the-nose as you can get. There's a lot of implied setting, but it's basically a romanticized mid- to late-20th-century working-class Japan with sci-fi trappings. The author, Maruoka Kuzo, really knows how to tell a tight little character-focused story in 4 pages and it's a god-drat shame he's not more popular than he is.  ChaCha Chako is the current Q-Rais long-form comic I'm sharing here. Q-Rais is probably most popular for his 4-panel Sad Bear, Fat Cat, and Brain-Damaged Bunny Muse comics, but in the last couple years he's started doing longer narrative comics, and this is the first. It's a spin-off of the extremely surreal Chako, which I shared in last year's thread. As with Sakaba, there's no official English translation I know of, so mine is all there is! Enjoy! (Apologies for the terrible quality of the cropping and text on these, BTW, I've slowly been getting better at that stuff but this was still relatively early in my fan-translation days.)  
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako   End Chapter 5!
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Jan 4, 2022 22:38
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako: New chapter, back to the "present"!  
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Jan 5, 2022 23:05
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davidspackage posted:Has someone tapped Studio Ghibli for a Chako adaptation yet More seriously, the Nausicaa influence on ChaCha’s design in particular is one of my favorite touches in the comic. Giant Ethicist fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Jan 6, 2022 08:09
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Uramachi Sakaba  Emi knows the score. ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 6, 2022 21:55
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Jan 7, 2022 23:38
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Uramachi Sakaba: these dorks  ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 8, 2022 23:55
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davidspackage posted:You've mentioned that few people in the strip ever get named, is the boss's name ever given?
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Jan 9, 2022 09:25
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Jan 9, 2022 23:33
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako: New chapter!  
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Jan 10, 2022 22:51
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Jan 11, 2022 22:47
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"Reveling in the joy of cheap but delicious bar food" is definitely one of the central literary themes of Uramachi Sakaba - but that said, this chapter is about these two doofuses:  ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 12, 2022 23:22
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Jan 13, 2022 23:09
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Perfect!
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Jan 14, 2022 01:21
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Jan 15, 2022 00:11
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Uramachi Sakaba One of the things I love about Maruoka is that he leans into the trope and has fun with it, but the thing about "will they or won't they" is that they never can.   Emi in those last two panels is my favorite Emi though. ChaCha Chako: New chapter!  
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Jan 16, 2022 00:44
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Zereth posted:ChaCha is around food people too, I assumed they were just very far away from each other on the same planet. It's explicitly different "worlds" - the only way to travel between them is those portal things. That said, Q-Rais has often said that Chako at least was written in a very stream-of-consciousness way, so I think the most likely explanation for the question of "how did Chako get a Mr. Inari to ChaCha" is just that Q-Rais hadn't really worked out the setting yet when he did the first ChaCha comic.
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Jan 18, 2022 00:59
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Haifisch posted:So that's 100% a sales pitch she uses in multiple places. I'm onto how you work by now, comic.   ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 18, 2022 22:55
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako, including the horrifying "back of the Fancy House"   End chapter!
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Jan 19, 2022 23:14
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako: New chapter, a short interlude of wordless surreality in Chako World  
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Jan 20, 2022 22:51
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Uramachi Sakaba: We've gotten to the stage in the sharing where we're caught up with the online comics and move to the extra strips in the print editions. These include some short one-page comics and some fan-favorite recipe content!  ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 22, 2022 00:51
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako   And I don't usually share Q-Rais' dailies, but I felt compelled to translate yesterday's (it's from a series of "surreal night visits to Q-Rais' apartment"): 
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Jan 22, 2022 22:28
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako   Some Guy TT posted:How do we bribe you into translating this comic every day? Night Visitors  Snow rabbits are rabbit-shaped snow sculptures people make here, sort of more-adorable snowmen, with leaves for ears and berries for eyes.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:06
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Uramachi Sakaba  At bars like this that serve food, it's a bit of a breach of etiquette not to get anything, even if it's just pickles or whatever. ChaCha Chako   End of chapter 9! Night Visitors  Mirror rice cakes are a traditional decoration at new year's.
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Jan 24, 2022 22:51
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako: Starting the chapter with a flashback   Night Visitors: Christmas mood 
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Jan 25, 2022 23:00
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Uramachi Sakaba  Drakyn posted:I can't believe Chako hadn't murdered and eaten the sun yet. ChaCha Chako   Night Visitors 
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Jan 26, 2022 22:50
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Uramachi Sakaba  Which is a good time to share this one-pager:  Which is an homage to a famous series of kids' books with images of kaiju:  ChaCha Chako   Chako knocking the sun into a lake is referring to one of the very first Chako strips, which wasn't tagged nicely on Q-Rais' site so I didn't share it here. Night Visitors 
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Jan 27, 2022 22:43
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Medenmath posted:I was actually just wondering how her being a cyborg worked, since most of the other characters with cyborg parts have bits that look obviously mechanical.
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Jan 28, 2022 01:52
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako: Nested flashbacks!   Night Visitors 
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Uramachi Sakaba  I like the background-setting her reaction gives. Myoga is the flower bud of a ginger variety - you could probably substitute regular ginger for it, but in smaller amounts, as it's pretty mild. EBB posted:So ChaCha's world was made for her too? That's interesting.   Night Visitors  I tell you what, I almost gave up on this one, and in the end (as you can probably guess from the way the jokes work) had to almost completely rework it.
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CommonShore posted:For all of the translators: Well, if I translated the ginger one literally, it'd be: Ginger: Good evening! Q-Rais: Ah, it's ginger. Ginger: Don't call me ginger, that's lame. Call me ginger! Q-Rais: Ginger... Q-Rais: Ginger! Ginger: And don't say it like "Shin-chan"! ...which seems to lack a certain something. There are one or two coming up that are basically un-localizable, though.
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Jan 30, 2022 01:11
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako   End of the chapter! Night Visitors 
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Uramachi Sakaba: an unusual three-pager:  Spoiled for a lil' bit of horniness, just in case:  ChaCha Chako   Night Visitors 
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Crab Dad posted:Is that suppose to be a black guy in that final frame?  That might be me being an apologist, though.
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Uramachi Sakaba  "Poppy" is a brand-name-avoiding reference to a drink called "Hoppy," which is a non-alcoholic beer-ish malt beverage that's served mixed with the cheapest alcohol available as an inexpensive beer substitute. ChaCha Chako   Night Visitors  This one needs some explanation. Foxes, in Japanese mythology, are generally-malevolent trickster spirits with, among other things, the ability to possess people. Also, a fox's favorite food is fried tofu (the surest way to expose a fox is to let it smell fried tofu, so it loses its concentration and lets its tail show), and as a result noodles with fried tofu as a topping are called "fox-style noodles". So, today's comic is: Q-Rais sees what he thinks is an ordinary bowl of noodles, then notices it's topped with fried tofu and making fox sounds, and so realizes it's not an ordinary bowl of noodles, but is rather fox noodles, in this case not only just fox-style noodles, but literally noodles possessed by a fox.
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