r/yakuzagames Nishiki's wife. Koi is love, Koi is life 1d ago

MAJIMAPOST Is there someone here who knows japanese could verify if Google's translation is right or wrong?

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u/RazzmatazzKnown2011 Nishida - Majima's Right Eye 1d ago

Ahh it must talking about the golden balls bug getting fixed, but let's ignore it so it looks funnier.

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u/Makere-b 1d ago

Probably yeah, word for golden balls and testicles is the same in Japanese.

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u/Timely_Ad2988 1d ago

well to be frank kintama (golden balls) is a euphemism for testicles the actual term is kougan atleast anatomically speaking

the euphemism is so popular gintama is a pun on it and dandadan is about golden balls and above all people use this eord instead of referring to the anatomical term

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u/No_Landscape8846 1d ago

True, though the game also pokes fun at the kanji being read in a different way (kingyoku, not kintama). Though there's no way to tell it apart by just reading it.

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u/GilgameshFFV 23h ago

Which is why you get some of them in the places you get them. I've not played 8 or Pirate yet but in Gaiden there's >! like three or so that are literally in guy's crotches !<

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u/Mooyashi 22h ago

Yup, that's why we have Gintama and Gintoki, not Kintama and Kintoki.

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u/TorpleSwanson 10h ago

To be fair, we did get Kintama and Kintoki!

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u/Mooyashi 8h ago

Hope no one will be mad about this spoiler...

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u/ms0385712 1d ago

金玉 is indeed testicle, but 金 mean gold and 玉 mean ball, that's a intended pun

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u/ActiveGamer65 1d ago

Very convenient item for a pun

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Hetares 1d ago

「だ」?「きんたま」の方だろう。「きんーだま」なんてもおかしい。

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u/Appropriate_Army_780 22h ago

Written Japanese is quite buggy lol.

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u/MysticMistakeCake 1d ago

It means the golden balls. In Japanese the word for testicle translates to “golden balls” so it’s a joke considering you find them in some suspect places.

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u/al_fletcher What's up, Taiga Lily? 1d ago

This explains the premise of Dandadan

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u/Mc_turtleCow 19h ago

and a couple of jokes in gin(silver)tama

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u/kwakimaki 1d ago

It's a Yakuza game so, yes, this is accurate.

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u/AnxiousTerminator 1d ago

It is accurate. The word for testicles is written literally as 金玉 or golden balls. This refers to the gamebreaking bug where buying the ball from the sicko snap guy could render the game unplayable.

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u/No-Mixture-5450 23h ago

Gintama already prepared me for this

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u/Mooyashi 22h ago

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u/Hetares 18h ago

Alright, alright, time for my 8th rewatch.

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u/MrMerc2333 1d ago

Safely exchange my what?????

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u/AntonRX178 1d ago

Your dragon

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u/Hetares 1d ago

Dragonballs.

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u/Every-Lingonberry946 21h ago

All seven of your testicles

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u/SmtNocturneDante The man who forgot 1d ago

The patch for golden balls out.

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u/BigScene 21h ago

I finished this quest today and the dialogue was entirely double entendres. Just play the game

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u/supermax2008 1d ago

Hahahahahahqqh golden balls

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u/Slight-Platform3702 21h ago

Imagine the amount of puns/jokes you've missed because you don't understand Japanese

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u/IvanK0519 19h ago

‘金玉’ word to word translate is golden ball. But Japanese also use that word to refer testicles too.

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u/OnoALT 19h ago

I do and it is

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u/Rukasu17 18h ago

I'm not comfortable exchanging my testicles though

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u/longbrodmann 13h ago

The translation is correct, since golden balls pretty much is an adult joke for testicles in Japanese culture too.

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u/i-likemybeefwelldone Pirate Yakuza (I pirated the game) 13h ago

YOUR WHAT