He has calmed down a lot after a day. Although he was hissing yesterday, I was able to stroke him in the morning and I have just brushed him.As he is negative for both FIV and FeLV, the rest would be deworming and compatibility. Mr.J understands that it is the orange white that are in the cage and is not so angry with them.He was called Chashirou (from his orange-white colour) by some as a community cat... I decided on the name Chashirou-maru after a bit of touching.
Did you ever figure out what's Snape's pronoun in japanese? 👀 I'm curious
I have jumped through so many hoops...
I want to buy the hardcovers in Japanese, so I didn't want to spend money just to check a word... but piracy is hard for Japanese things...
So I've signed up for an Amazon kindle unlimited thingy account
and Amazon is useless in my country nobody has a fucking amazon account
AND THEN to read it I have to download the KINDLE APP on on my PC and log into AMAZON on it uuugh whinge whinge complain tantrum
I got all the japanese books - and I've been tipped off that he might use 'Wagahai' and FUCK do I hope he uses wagahai but it seems I cannot use the search function with kanji. Nor does it seem to search through furigana. Only hiragana and katakana. uuuugghhhhhh
So I just need to... search for Snapes name in every book and scour the pages. Cool. Cool.
So I am looking through each book's every mention of スネイプ...
Dumbledore uses 'Washi' and is, as always, delightful - using the typical old man 'jya's. I hope he and Sebarusu enjoyed their umasou custard tarts. Shoutout to Suneipu's poisonous eyes at Hari- and Ron.
秘密の部屋 (p. 167)
But a note is formal. What does he call himself casually...?
「校長、一言よろしいですかな」 影の中からスネイプの声がした。ハリーの不吉感がつのった。
秘密の部屋 (p. 218) ("Headmaster, May I have a word." From within shadows came Snape's voice. Harry's sense of foreboding increased.) Unrelated - just iconic af.
HE USES WAGAHAI!!! He is SO cat themed in Japanese, what the hell... English its always bats and spiders, Japan is straight up like 'He purrs and is a cat'
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For people who don't know: Wagahai is an old-timey male pronoun.
It's long been out of use and sounds arrogant, pompous, formal...
"I'm better than you. I look down on you. You're a peasant; I'm a Lord."
It re-gained popularity within fiction because of the 1905 book about a teachers pet cat by Natsume Souseki, 吾輩は猫である (I am a cat).
It is STRONGLY associated with that book and cats in general.
It's almost always used for non-human characters, especially to give an 'old military man' or 'from a different time' feel.
仮面の告白 “Confessions of a Mask” by Yukio Mishima (1949)
生きるヒント “Living Tips” by Itsuki Hiroyuki (1993)
斜陽 “The Setting Sun” by Osamu Dazai (1947)
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (1890)
こころ”Heart” by Natsume Soseki (1914)
“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
人間失格“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai (1948)
死霊“Death Spirits” by Yutaka Haniya (1948)
猫鳴り “Neko Nari” by Numata Mahokaru (2007)
“Coin Locker Babies” by Ryu Murakami (1980)
グロテスク “Grotesque” by Natsuo Kirino (2003)
“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1879-1880)
“Salomé” by Oscar Wilde (1891)
破局 “Catastrophe” by Tono Haruka (2020)
新宿鮫 “Shinjuku Shark” by Arimasa Osawa (1990)
堕落論 “Discourse on Decadence” by Ango Sakaguchi (1946)
五分後の世界 “The World Five Minutes from Now” by Ryu Murakami (1994)
*Manga*悪魔の花嫁 “Bride of Deimos” by Etsuko Ikeda, illust. By Yuuho Ashibe (1974-1990)
九月が永遠に続けば “To Continue Forever in September” by Numata Mahokaru (2005)
彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち “Birds Without Names” by Numata Mahokaru (2006)
怒り”Rage” by Shuichi Yoshida (2014)
悪人 “Villain” by Shuichi Yoshida (2007)
MOVIES:
The Green Mile by Frank Darabont (1999)
Bohemian Rhapsody by Bryan Singer (2018)
The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
Pierrot the Fool by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
The Elephant Man by David Lynch (1980)
老ナルキソス Old Narcissus by Tsuyoshi Shouji (2023)
時計は生きていたThe Clock was Alive by Seijiro Kouyama (1973)
The Mission by Roland Joffé (1986)
Poongsan by Juhn Jai-Hong (2011)
Midnight FM by Kim Sang-man (2010)
Pusher by Nicolas Winding Refn (1996)
Misery by Rob Reiner (1990)
From Paris with Love by Pierre Morel (2010)
異人たちとの夏 The Discarnates by Nobuhiko Obayashi (1988)
Purple Noon by René Clément (1960)
Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn (1967)
狂い咲きサンダーロード Crazy Thunder Road by Gakuryuu Ishii (1980)
Undo by Shunji Iwai (1994)
犬神家の一族 The Inugami Family by Kon Ichikawa (1976)
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont (1994)
The Brave by Johnny Depp (1997)
Here is the link to my actual twitter thread, I update it every time I run into a new book or movie he has mentioned!
The information to make this list was taken from several inerviews, radio programs, and even some of the Fish Tank Bulletins.
If you know any other book/movie he has mentioned but is not here, do not hesitate to let me know!
Stray Tabby: also called Bunta, Mr.J says that damn stray tabby
He was the bigger brown tabby than Mr.J, coming to the garden since 2016. He was a new boss after Mr.J became a house cat, and his fatal enemy.
He always provoked Mr.J so he often got angry and went out to fight with breaking the house. The heaviest one was the bloodshed of Mr.J that was found by landlady when she came back home from the welcome party of her office the early April 2017, then he was took to the vet alty it was already midnight. And . The wound became infected and dangerous, but was carefully cleaned by a veterinary surgeon. Since then, Mr J has recognised the doctor as his benefactor, and there are several testimonies that the way to suck up is different from the way he does with other doctors.
Furthermore, he made the reason why Mr.J doesn't wear a collar usually, because landlady thought he might be defeated by the sounds of the bell of the collar. He's said there's no sighting information around 2020.