Also dropped in the Chinese language thanks to a partnership with the CN-TNO community:
Introduction介绍Welcome to the dev diary for the State of Guangdong. My name is Kuzunoha - one of the two co-team leads for the State of Guangdong on the team, alongside OPAsian. We want to give you…
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(I'm sure the only one here who would be able to truly appreciate it in any capacity would be @chankljp, but the folks on this thread might as well know anyway.)
Just a few quick thoughts:
(1) Love the fact that the Chinese translation team actually translated the dialogue spoken by the characters into spoken Cantonese, and done a good job at it as well
(A nice detail that, for obvious reasons, will not be able to get carried over to English). They did something similar with the first China dev diary, in that some users had translated the dialogue for when a teacher invited a kid living in Shanghai to attend the new school that was opened, he spoke his line not only in Shanghainese, but period and social-class accurate Shanghainese as well.
(2) According to one of the comments left by a Chinese user, it was claimed that the lead writer for Guangdong is in fact a Japanese expat that lives and works in Hong Kong. Hence their ability to capture the atmosphere and social dynamics of the city once things have been taken up a notch due to the PoD. Does any know if that is true?
(3) I was going to complaint about how the name 'State of Guangdong' wasn't really a good choice as it does not make sense. Since if the Japanese had wanted to create an artificial colonial state and give it SOME fig leaf of historical justification, they could have named it
'Nanyue' (南粤), as a reference to an actual historical state that once existed in around the same region.... But upon reading the dev comments about how Guangdong is NOT supposed to make sense, and stand as a reflection of blatant Japanese exploitation and desire to weaken China however possible.... This 'not making sense' suddenly does make sense in-universe.
(4) ...Lets just say that for the Mainland Chinese users on Zhihu that have commented on the dev diary, there were comparisons to real life Hong Kongers and Taiwanese people with our 'artificial, twisted colonial identifies', comments on racism against Mainland Chinese people by RL Hong Kongers', and quite a few users hoping that General Long Yun's NPA can invade the place, burn it to the ground, and kill everyone
(Yes, yes, 'Not all Mainland Chinese TNO players'... Blah, blah, blah.).