Weird translation in One Piece Episode 132? — Practical take

garage_greg

In One Piece's Episode 132, when Luffy tries to apologize to Nami for messing up her drawn map, from what I can get (I may be wrong), Nami (gets frustrated and) says (in romaji), Gomen de sundara, kaigun wa iranai wa The translation in the anime is shown as: If sorry was all it took, the Marines wouldn't be after us! This translation seems a bit off; it seems out of the context. Although "kaigun" does mean Navy but I think from what I...

Originally asked by kiner_shah on Stack Exchange (anime) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I wouldn't say the translation is off. Nami is trying to convey that simply saying 'sorry' is not going to resolve the issue at hand. Similar to how saying sorry to the marines would not make the crew any less of a wanted criminal. Hence I don't care if you are sorry! doesn't really covers what she tries to convey. She may still care about him being sorry, but in the end it's only a cold comfort. It will not fix or rectify the situation. Or in the context of the episode, just saying sorry is not magically going to repair or fix the damages done to the map. Which she just put a lot of effort into making. So something along the lines of Being sorry is not going to fix this map! would probably...

Full answer by Dimitri mx: https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/59455 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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