# Japanese translation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957 "2016-03-23T16:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957/1 "2016-03-23T16:15:06Z")
[Here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1557580/combined) is an impossibly long title from an episode of ‘Keroro Gunsô’ (Sgt. Frog). Any idea what it say? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957/2 "2016-03-23T16:25:57Z")
I can’t understand most of it, but it’s multiple sentences separated by commas rather than regular punctuation. It’s basically a paragraph. And it’s not the title of that episode either. > **[Sgt. Frog (season 4)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sgt._Frog_episodes_(season_4))** > > The fourth season of the Sgt. Frog anime series consists of the fifty-one episodes after episode one-hundred-and-fifty-four from the series, which first aired in Japan from April 7, 2007, to March 29, 2008, on TV Tokyo. Season 4 uses 5 songs: 2 Openings and 3 Endings. "Kaettekita Kero! tto March" (帰ってきたケロッ!とマーチ, Kaettekita Kero! tto Māchi, "Return of the Kero! and March") by Ichirō Zaitsu & Yuko Ogura is used as the opening from episode 155 to 183. "Fundari Kettari" (フンダリーケッタリー, Fundarī Kettarī) ... Episode 4 of season 5 is titled, “Keroro, Climax! Card Battle/Keroro, the Targeted Platoon.” What is in IMDb looks like someone typed a synopsis into the episode title field. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957/3 "2016-03-23T16:49:06Z")
IMDB seems to have the episode number wrong. That title corresponds to season 2, episode 83A, which [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sgt._Frog_episodes#Season_2:_2005_-_2006) lists as “Keroro, Mixed Hot Springs Murder Incident. The Spirit Of the Most Unfortunate Sibling in Space. Because of Brother’s Colored Box Hot Spring, Only One Foot Can Be Placed Inside. When the Brother Slipped From the Shock and Fell Unconscious, The Sister’s Tears Fell like Flower Petals” ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957/4 "2016-03-23T17:08:28Z")
p.s. The Japanese title is: ケロロ　温泉混浴露天風呂殺人事件　湯煙にさすらう宇宙一不幸な兄妹の魂　兄が作ったカラーボックス温泉　いざ入ろうとすれば片足しか入んなくて、ショックで足を滑らせた兄が気絶するとき、湯の花に妹の涙が舞い落ちる　であります “Colored box” is the Japanese term for modular storage shelves, I think in the US they are called “storage cubes.” The middle part is more like “Older brother made a bath out of storage cube, tried to get in but only one foot would fit, brother fainted from shock.” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-translation/749957/5 "2016-03-23T17:49:39Z")
So I guess it’s possible that that’s the title, but it would appear more likely that somewhere along the line, someone entered a synopsis as a title and it ended up being copied into multiple places. [Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/978/). Thanks.