And the troubles start . . .

Guess she's asking what he wants for dinner, which reveals that they're living together.

Yup, and she knew exactly what she was doing.

*insert "Dinner, Bath or Me" meme*

He probably dodged a throwing knife by saying she's his lil sis... but might face a massive flurry of it when its clarified they aint related

... What does Himura mean by "symbolic traits in her eyes"? I don't get it.

Maybe that should be translated more like "Stepsis-chan's characteristic trait is her eyes, so I can play around with her hairstyle as I want... maybe have her wear braids when it's just the two of them at home and such." Otherwise, I'm not really sure what 記号的 is supposed to mean...

hemlock said:

Maybe that should be translated more like "Stepsis-chan's characteristic trait is her eyes, so I can play around with her hairstyle as I want... maybe have her wear braids when it's just the two of them at home and such." Otherwise, I'm not really sure what 記号的 is supposed to mean...

That does make more sense, so I've changed the translation accordingly, but it doesn't match the Japanese grammar, as far as I can tell. The original is 義妹ちゃんは目に記号的特徴があるので, whereas for your translation, I'd expect 義妹ちゃんの目は記号的特徴があるので or 義妹ちゃんは目が記号的特徴なので, thus my confusion. (Also, the verb in the second sentence is entirely implied in Japanese, so it may or may not be causative (させる). I think my current phrasing should cover it.)

Oh, and 記号 = symbol, 記号的 = symbolic. Getting that to make proper contextual/syntactical sense may be another matter.

Moonspeaker said:

That does make more sense, so I've changed the translation accordingly, but it doesn't match the Japanese grammar, as far as I can tell. The original is 義妹ちゃんは目に記号的特徴があるので, whereas for your translation, I'd expect 義妹ちゃんの目は記号的特徴があるので or 義妹ちゃんは目が記号的特徴なので, thus my confusion. (Also, the verb in the second sentence is entirely implied in Japanese, so it may or may not be causative (させる). I think my current phrasing should cover it.)

Oh, and 記号 = symbol, 記号的 = symbolic. Getting that to make proper contextual/syntactical sense may be another matter.

To elaborate, because I'm not honestly not 100% on this: To me it reads like (somewhat more literally and clunkily) "Speaking of Gimai-chan, she has a symbolic trait in her eyes, so therefore..." I rather loosely translated that as "her characteristic trait is her eyes" because that sounds more natural in English - I've never heard "symbolic" used in English in a context like this... nor for that matter a phrase like "to have a trait in your eyes".

But I think the overall meaning is more about what Himura feels like he can do with the character than what the character feels about herself, at least.

Aside, shouldn't these have brother_and_sister tag?