Slayers BE Manga

[Old_Chestnut]

Originally Posted by Sucht17

No no. Lina shrinks Naga's breasts, and Naga "bust recharges". They get into a back and forth spell fight, basicaly canceling each other out until Lina stops to talk, but since Naga is so focused on repeating the spell she ends up growing her breasts a little bigger.

What seems to have provoked this was Naga suddenly appearing after Lina sensed that someone was nearby; Lina was startled enough that she let go with a "Dragon Slave" before she realized who it was (maybe ...). When Naga starts chewing her out, Lina replies with the first spell. The sequence after that is sort of reminiscent of the Bugs/Daffy exchanges in a couple of Chuck Jones' "hunting season" cartoons... (I don't know how many of you have seen 'em, but many of the Japanese mangaka and animators are familiar with them.)

The names of the spells are interesting, since the kanji read one way, while the kana read in "English". Lina's spell is something like hinnyuu*, which means "make (her) poor in breasts"; the kana says "uosshu boodo" <washboard>, the way we'd say "flat as a board" (not like an American washboard, which has ripples). Naga counters with houmune, which is "bountiful (abundant, rich in) breasts (or chest)", with the kana being "basto ricchi" <bust rich>. (And it does look like Naga overcorrects a bit each time...) Lina's last "spell" in the battle is chimmoku, which is not made up and translates as given in the kana as "silence", the point where she has tricked Naga.

*Don't try looking these first two up in a regular dictionary: they're made-up words; you need to find the individual characters.

BTW, Lina's opening spell reads something like "ryuu yabukiri", which translates roughly as "dragon destroy (crush, annihilate)". So the spell we call Dragon Slave should really be Dragon Slay...