Has herm ever translated this panel before?

[Gogetason]

Has herms ever translated this panel? I dont see it anywhere in his translations. Its a scene that conflicts with their initial reaction of buu.

https://imgur.com/a/IJOf74B

Its the panel right before they do rock paper scissors. The "I dont know if we can do anything but lets try anyways"

Can a mod help me with showing the image?

[VegettoEX]

I would heavily recommend against anyone reading or using the ancient, flipped, (poorly) translated-from-Japanese-to-Spanish-to-English scanlations for anything!

Is there any particular reason you're not just defaulting to Viz's English translation of chapter 509 here?



That said, I actually think either translation is totally fine here for the dialog:

なんとかなるかどうかいっちょうかましてみっか！

The gist of it is "let's give it a shot / a go / try" and "see / find out if it works / how it goes".

If you smooth that out to something actually resembling a real sentence a person would say, and not literal gibberish, I can equally see how you'd come out to a simplified "Let's give it our best shot!" a la the Viz translation, or a more verbose "I don't know if we can do anything, but let's try anyway" from the ancient scrolls. The sentence is actually so simple and straightforward, that the game of Translation Telephone from Japanese to Spanish to English actually kept it relatively intact.

What's the concern over this line? If I had to guess, this is another search for cracks in the eternal "Super Boo vs Kid Boo" argument, since if they've already established that they think he's got less power, they wouldn't suddenly be now saying they're not sure if it will work?

But that starts getting overly-literal and doesn't allow for improvisation either in the characters' dialog or story-telling. We already know this Boo is a mad man (he just blew up the Earth and immediately teleported to where they are), and so ultimately they're not totally, concretely sure what they're up against and what's going to happen — they're not prophets, and they haven't already read the rest of the manga they're in.

Heads-up for the future: this kind of request is also a perfect candidate for leaving as a one-off question over in The All-Purpose "Translation Request" Thread here in the same forum sub-section.

[Zebra]

孫悟空「よし...
なんとかなるかどうかいっちょうかましてみっか!」
Son Gokū: "Yoshi ...
nantoka naru ka dō ka itchi ~youkamashitemikka!"
Son Goku: "Alright ...
let's give this a shot and see if it'll work out by any chance, shall we?!"

ベジータ 「ああ」
Bejīta: "Ā"
Vegeeta: Uh-huh.

[PhantomSaiyan]

I don't know anything about translation but I'd like to point everyone's attention to the hatching Toriyama used on Goku's butt, making it look like he... relieved himself, perhaps from fear... (Toriyama = genius)

At least that's what it looks like to me...