Hello, everyone! Today, I started reading These Dangerous Girls Placed Me in Jeopardy. While I was reading, I came across the japanese term "haraguro". After googling wtf it was, I found 腹黒 (haraguro) – to be shrewd or calculative to cheat other people or hide the real him/her This made me question the differences between haraguro, and the Chinese terms White Lotus, and Black-Bellied. After looking up definitions, this is what I got: 腹黑 (fu hei) 'Black belly' – someone who is secretly quite evil/sly/manipulative, but openly hard-working and honest Can someone clarify for me, is haraguro supposed to be the Japanese equivalent of Black-Bellied, since the characters (腹黒 vs 腹黑) for both literally translate to "Black-Belly"? Or are there some special nuances that separate them? Also, the novel TDGPMJ is a chinese webnovel, but the translator used Haraguro, which is a Japanese romaji term. I don't know what the raws were like, but if someone does know, was the original term 腹黒 or 腹黑?
well haraguro isnt just hard-working or honest, the character can be friendly,innocent,kind but deep inside can be cruel,manipulative,sadistic,mean,cunning But i'm not sure if black belly would also have those same things but from your definition its a bit different from haraguro
That's why I'm confused. Both the Chinese 腹黑, and the Japanese kanji 腹黒, literally translate to "Belly Black/Dark".... Also, I just copy-pasted that definition for black belly from google. If I had to put it in my own words, I would say Black bellied=two-faced.
These two terms are identical (although they may not always be applied the same way). Baidu says that it entered China from Japanese media so that should explain the origin. I've seen several terms like this so it's part of a pattern. I still think that it's a mistake to translate it using Romaji - that should be saved for much more familiar terms like moe or yuri.
I agree. I think they should have used Black-Bellied in this case since the context was "Haraguro-Type BroCon". Personally, I feel like "Black-Bellied BroCon" sounds better anyway.....