In the first Sakura Wars OVA, Sakura unloads her first Cherry Blossom attack from her armor in combat. The result is pretty spectacular, but not quite what Yoneda wanted. The bridge they were fighting to defend took too much collateral damage and collapsed. After which we see this headline in the newspaper:

It wasn't really Sakura's fault. First off, she was trying to (and succeeded in) preventing an even worse result. Second, everyone as inexperienced, and as Yoneda himself told Sakura seconds before that, you can't learn unless you make mistakes.

Anyway, I recognized the "dai" in the second column and wondered what the actual headline read. It's this: 佃島相生橋 大崩壊

The last part means "utterly demolished". houkai means "demolish" and the dai before it means "big/large".

But I'm having a hard time making sense of the rest of it.

佃 "cultivated rice field"
島 "island"
相 means a bunch of things but I'm not sure which applies here.
生 "life, genuine, birth"
æ©‹ "bridge"

I think that 佃島相生 must be a proper name. And I'm guessing that there's nothing in there about a "military screwup". But I can't tell for sure. Anyone got any help for me here?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Japanese at 08:57 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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