#I can't complain about the LSW subtitle thing too much
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Do you have any favorite "this scene is super meaningful if you've read the manga/short stories/other side material" easter eggs from the anime?
The whole episode 12 of ROK has multiple callbacks to LSW and unfortunately the English subtitles kinda flubbed two of them. The title being Knuckle Bump is the obvious one (especially since thereâs no actual knuckle bumping that happens in the episode itself, so the title feels a bit weird otherwise) â this is something middle school Yata and Fushimi would do, most notably when theyâre planning to interrupt the jungle Christmas party. When the title was announced in the preview part of the previous episode pretty much anyone whoâd read LSW was immediately like âthe Sarumi episode is coming up next!â just from the title, which I think would be less obvious if you werenât familiar with the novel. Similarly within the episode, the part that the English subs translated as âFushimi Saruhiko is a stand up guyâ was actually Yata specifically using the word âsugoi,â which in LSW translations was more often translated as Yata calling Fushimi âamazingâ (that whole âwhen have you listened to me with shining eyes and called me amazingâ thing that he says to Aya uses the same word). Itâs a pretty simple moment but I think it was definitely intentional as a callback. Also at the end after Yata leaves, when Fushimi thinks about how Yata hit the mark calling Munakata Fushimiâs King, the subtitles also skipped this one â and to be fair I can see why, if you donât know that the wording is intentional â but he specifically says â100 point answerâ in Japanese, referencing the â0 or 100 pointsâ that Fushimi uses for Yata in LSW.
Thereâs also a little subtle bit I liked in S1 with Totsukaâs death. In episode six we get the whole extended flashback to when Totsuka was still alive and thereâs one transition I recall liking a lot, where we see Totsuka smiling with a little shine on his earring and then the scene shifts to present day, with Mikoto in his cell and the same earring shining. While the transition I think is intended to kinda infer that Mikoto is wearing Totsukaâs earring itâs really only clear if youâve read Memory of Red, where itâs pointed out that Mikoto takes Totsukaâs earring after he dies. As I recall the shine on the earring was also a red color too, which a regular viewer would assume is just a symbolism thing with Mikoto being the Red King, but Memory of Red reveals that some of Totsukaâs blood is inside the hollowed middle of the earring. The scene doesnât linger on this one which is something I really liked, it very much feels like something where if youâre anime-only itâs easy to overlook but if youâre caught up on the side materials you really get hit with the full emotional effect of the moment.Â
Also from season one, possibly one of the biggest Easter eggs is just the ending theme itself. âAlone, in a Cold Roomâ is sung by Nekoâs voice actor and the lyrics are very sad and lonely in a way I think doesnât make as much sense if youâre not aware of her backstory. In particular I feel like the title and references to the lonely room are probably intended to bring to mind the moment when little Neko realizes that sheâs been using her powers on her âparentsâ all this time and sheâs curled up in her closet, wishing that they would accept her and take her hand again even though sheâs not their real daughter. I donât know offhand if Goraâs ever mentioned that the song was specifically supposed to be about that moment but I feel like it fits too well to not be intended as a reference to that part of Nekoâs life, that viewers would only know about if theyâve read the supplemental material.
#k project#Talking K#I can't complain about the LSW subtitle thing too much#bc the 100 point one in particular I'm sure was the translator just assuming it was a turn of phrase#so you can't expect them to know that specific phrasing was important#I assume the dub misses those too I haven't really watched the dub#the Neko one makes the ED theme so weird bc it's like fanservice visuals and the saddest song
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