#also love aggretsuko

[igotthis-egg]

Brush test + some Legosi and Haru doodles💥 what do you guys think of this brush? I used to use it a ton but I've been using a colored pencil brush lately. Do you like it or nah?

[pcktknife]

Danganronpa/Another Episode.........TWO

[front-facing-pokemon]

[pilvidor]

Aggretsuko is now my comfort show....

[cherrybeetle]

Honestly idk why everyone’s taking the election campaign plot too seriously in aggretsuko s5 bc it was abt retsuko acting as a voice for the people who couldn’t use theirs and it doesn’t matter if it was ridiculous or unrealistic bc it was never meant to end w her winning and what?? being a politician?? pls it was moreso abt bringing up these topics and discussions and problems rather than solving them completely bc u can’t forget that she’s just one person

[weedle-testaburger]

you and me both haida

[femc-supremacy]

Just when i thought a more relateable aggretsuko character wasn't possible, Shikabane comes along

[vlovann]

When Your Cat Looks At You With ✨That✨ Face

Hades loves when I heavy metal scream words of adoration at her 🥺

Aggretsuko was the only accurate way I could draw how I imagine my face looks.

[tepli-mravenci]

Slowly but steadily indoctrinating my 45yo mom into anime, wish me luck

[teeto-peteto]

my key personality trait is getting stuff i think characters would wear like hell yeah im gonna get these boots cause Amy Rose would love em.

[rhys-ravenfeather]

More pieces of media that have guys realizing that the girl they have a crush on is a completely different person from who they fantasized about and just being okay with it, please?

[lorelune]

anyone around these parts read the broken earth trilogy because i am having. thoughts.

[teaboot]

Batman? As in extended batman universe, specifically batman, or movies batman? I'm going to die from the hilarity of /accidentally/ following another batman fan. Generally it's on purpose lol

I was actually absorbed into the Fandom by osmosis before I even touched any of the Canon material

Even now I've only seen the Affleck movies and the Battinson one, plus a couple cartoons and like. Four comics out of order

With next to zero evidence tho I have decided that

Dick Grayson has Eldest Daughter syndrome that, speaking as an Eldest Daughter (tm) really should be addressed in the lore somewhere before he goes on a drunken bender, gets a tramp stamp, kills a man, and has a full-on mental breakdown when the Repression Dam breaks

Stephany Brown radiates "angry teen girl needs a hug" energy imo but I feel like she might break my arms? I don't know anything about her except her dad sucks but honestly same boat, would hang

Timothy Drake cannot be the helpless boohoo I see a lot of, but somehow the cool, collected, hypercompentant, übermensch-tweenybopper look is kinda sadder, like seeing a twelve year old buying groceries at the store by themselves. I want to send his ass to normal kid summer camp

I don't know pretty much anything about Duke Thomas except that he's a meta whose parents might be alive but crazy. I can only conclude that he suffers from Black Character White Fandom syndrome. I headcanon that he had an embarrassing weeb phase in middle school because he feels like the kind of kid Who'd have gone through a phase of saying "ohaio" with peace signs as a baby tween. I have no evidence to support this

Cassandra Cain might be my favourite. I think she deserves to go on an angry, irrational rampage or two, as a treat. Aggretsuko vibes that I cannot explain. I bet her favourite colour is purple

Jason Todd is my guilty comfort character and I refuse to believe he kicked the shit out of a fifteen year old while wearing a legless adult onesie. I refuse. Also yeah as a huge angry-kid-book-nerd there is no way that pride and prejudice was his number one fave, my money is on the Percy Jackson series but that could just be me projecting

Damian Wayne is Autistic, personal subscription. Because I am too and I said so. Reminds me of my baby brother, but crankier. Like a tiny old man who doesn't want to be at bingo with the other folks at the senior center.

I feel like Alfred should be allowed to be wrong about something sometimes but I still love him. Give that grandpa a gun

Bruce Wayne strikes me as a man who should have put a lot more thought and study and personal therapy consults into the idea of adopting multiple highly capable highly traumatized children he's never met before before but fuck pobody's nerfect am I right. Bisexual

[sillyandquiteawkward]

What kind of music do you think the members of the tulpar crew listen to?

so we do have canon tracks of music for Anya and Swansea, so that gives us a little hint to their tastes! the others I get to speculate which is fun.

you hear Anyas music when you first get to meet her and curly in medical and it's the most beautiful and haunting track of the game, the windows are plastic. first time I heard it I just sat in there next to the radio for like 5 minutes. so I think if this is on her year long playlist, she likes melodic calming sad music. I can see her listening to lots of beautiful emo songs and love songs but when she's studying, she needs zero words. calm lofi beats to study to type shit. when she's jogging she's got aggretsuko type metal shit going on to keep her heartbeat pumping fast. always daydreaming of those street interviewers asking what she's listening to.

swanseas music track is wake rock, and he's dancing and jamming and singing along to it. wrong organ also released a playlist for him and it's a lot of fun classic party rocking songs you can groove to, so I think that fits him well. big swansss. guy who loves to blast music in his garage/mechanic shop and sings along with it.

curly I think will listen to anything anyone else plays happily, even if he wasn't a fan. type of guy to just let a radio station play songs he hates, let's jimmy drag him to shows. on his own time I think he prefers silence but he's on an old country kick. I think he'd be a fan of bruce springsteen.

daisuke I think is into pop music, but I think he's kind of a music noob. he listens to music he knows he likes and hasn't spread his wings yet in his music tastes. he used to just listen to his parents music, and now he's listening to what his friends play (and now swanseas music is growing on him) he mentions he likes a song and you tell him you love that artist, x is your favorite song he's just like ohhh I never listened to that one. I just know that one song.

jimmy I think says he hates anyone else's music and i think he hates radios bc you can't control what they play. guy who is such a grouch. I think his choice of music would be indie rock or indie shit in general bc it gives him a sense of superiority to listen to things other people haven't heard of. hates on popular bands, and he doesn't own any music himself. goes to small time live venues with curly who he drags along to pay.

[netbug009]

....WAITAMINUTE-

okay I have additional thoughts about the final episode of aggretsuko and THAT bit in particular because like there's a LOT MORE being said that that little moment than you might realize at first blush and I realized after a bit as someone who also has shitty living parents

like seriously if you have qualms about how THAT BIT felt rushed or out of line with some of retsuko's character or just wanna cry more about these two idiots please read oh my god i am unwell

MAJOR SPOILERS BEHIND THE CUT and discussion of heavy issues in the show including parental neglect/abuse

Okay, but like. Haida and Retsuko straight up rushing to get married after the truck incident is not only killing me because OMG THEY ARE ACTUALLY MARRIED OMG but we need to talk about the practical matter here and what it says about these characters:

Haida just had an attempt on his life, presumably by his family or someone hired by his family.

If Haida had died at that moment, his family would have been considered his next of kin.

They would had the right to choose how his body was handled, how his funeral was arranged, and generally how he was remembered.

Marrying Retsuko at that moment was not only a romantic gesture, it was a very practical choice to make sure that someone he loved and who loved him would be in control of his affairs if someone DID succeed in killing him.

Haida isn't kidding when he says "with you all the way" - he is taking what just happened VERY seriously and IS willing to die if it means dying with Retsuko while supporting her being her authentic self.

And Retsuko knows this, and it says just as much about her that she goes along with it, or potentially is even the one who suggests it to him.

Retsuko, as several people have pointed out while criticizing this scene, is a huge romantic with dreams of a big wedding and a dramatic proposal, but she is willing to put that aside for Haida. In that moment, it's more important to her to make sure Haida is protected from the additional damage his family could do to his legacy - that Haida legally has family that will say who he really was and make choices in his honor if the worst happens.

Getting married after hours wasn't just some emotionally charged decision - it was a deeply and importantly practical one.

God, they make me unwell.

[brofightiscancelled]

yapping about how i approached translating karamatsu's brand new world. just discussing the localization liberties i took and other things i think are interesting. i just love yapping sorry

part 1/4 because i forgot about tumblr post image limits lol

establishing my ethos: im still learning japanese but have been translating (chinese -> english) for over 7 years, so my translation skill is higher than my japanese skill. if there's anything i get wrong here pls point it out!!! i usually translate mostly songs, anime (donghua), and manga

The Title

japanese has multiple alphabets: 2 phonetic ones and 1 derived from chinese characters (kanji) that dont tell you anything about how they're pronounced

kanji characters have multiple pronunciations. for example, 心 can be pronounced "kokoro" or "shin" depending on the context it's used in.

"how do you know which kanji pronunciation to use" you guess. alternatively, media geared towards children (who have lower language skills) will sometimes spell out the right pronunciation above the kanji in little letters

sometimes people will just make up their own pronunciations for kanji for Style Points, in which case they will also spell out the intended pronunciation above the kanji

so this title actually reads "matsuno karamatsu's brand new morning". however the Style Points pronunciation guidelines indicated that this is pronounced "Brand New World". i deliberated over this for a while and ended up going with "brand new world" because the phonetic pronunciation is in english so i assume this would be the preferred title for an english localization. unfortunately this did lose the interesting double reading of "morning" and "world" but sometimes it just be like that.

Chapter 1

every time choro says something about the chopsticks in this first part, he's repeating the same thing each time: "Stop [pointing with your] chopsticks". but this 1. doesn't sound very natural in english, and 2. is too long to fit into these speech bubbles.

translations often have to take liberties due to the medium. in anime subtitles, they need to consider how fast a watcher can read the subtitles. in manga, it's often about how many words they can fit in a vertical text bubble.

the underlying impression is that choro is annoyed he even has to tell oso to stop pointing with his chopsticks (this is common sense, you're a grown ass man, why don't you know table manners, etc), so i tried to write it in a way like he's saying it short and snippy like an annoyed mom who has already reminded you 5000 times about this exact thing: Chopsticks.

oso calls totty "あざとい" here after hearing that he's trying out pancakes at a new cafe. as far as i can tell, this roughly translates to "cunning" or "sly" and is used to describe women kinda derogatorily, like a girl at the office who speaks harshly to the women but sweettalks to men (like tsunoda from aggretsuko).

i couldnt really think of a natural-sounding equivalent to this implication in english, so i settled on the kind of close "coquettish" to get across that oso is calling totty girly in a strange and insulting way. oso's dialogue here literally goes something like "sly.... you really are sly...", but since "coquettish" is kind of a weird word to use in english, i ended up localizing this around to suit my weird word choice to make it sound like oso was thinking for a second about the right word to call totty, which i also think comes off as a little more natural-sounding

japanese (and chinese) have a plural second-person pronoun, but english doesn't (besides y'all, which i did use in oso's dialogue earlier lol) which is a real headache and almost always needs some creative thinking to get sounding Normal. this was a relatively straightforward case: "how would a father address his sons as a collective?" -> "Boys"

CHAPTER 2

the dreaded jp onomatopoeia without an english equivalent. im lucky that these boys' whole gimmick is being from an old cartoon so i could get away with the very cartoony "honk" sound effect for "blowing one's nose".

the source material always translates イタい as "painful" so i do it too but i wish osmt had come out like just a few years later when "cringe" was in the common vernacular because it's a way better localization. in my opinion.

also a minor note: in the first bubble totty is actually repeating kara's words back at him "someone's? watching? me?", which is made clera by him using kara's self-pronoun (オレ) and not his own self-pronoun (ボク) (if you don't know about self-pronouns i will talk about them more in a future note). however this nuance is lost in english and could be misconstrued so i just went and made it so he's repeating back what kara said but not using the exact words

"頭おかし" does literally translate to "strange in the head" but colloquially just means "insane" or "crazy". but ichi is being really harsh to kara here, and kara does start questioning his mental sanity later in the chapter, so i went with a more harsh translation here that specifically references the head. also "YOU'RE INSANE" does unintentionally have a different meaning to most of us here on tumblr dot com, doesnt it lol

i dont know what the consensus is on giving iyami a french accent when localizing him. it's probably overkill to do both this AND keep the zansus. however i cant convey a mid-atlantic accent in writing so this is my next best way to convey that iyami talks very strangely. also it's funny

this panel was really hard to redraw. please clap

anyways same use of "strange" here as before with the head thing ("crazy") but it can also have the vibe of "abnormal". i thought "is something wrong with me?" helped convey both these meanings. come to think of it later in chapter 6 i translate okashi very literally as "strange". maybe i shouldve said "is something wrong with me" there, too....

CHAPTER 3

jyushi literally says "why do we do the olympics?" here. i localized it this way because it means essentially the same thing and is funnier. dats the art of translation babyyyyy

japanese personal pronouns quick rundown: in english we tell others to refer to us as different pronouns- him, her, they, etc., but we only have one pronoun to refer to ourselves with (I). japanese has many self-pronouns, and which one you use to describe yourself with is usually based around context and personality (some pronouns are more polite to use than others, some give off the connotation of being stuck-up or of being a country bumpkin, etc). this is helpful for characterization and also being able to tell who is talking through written dialogue

we aren't meant to know who this figure is at first, but we're also meant to have the clues to figure it out (if you were to investigate, you would find that f6 oso is the only one with full black gloves and knee high boots).

oso usually uses the masculine self-pronoun 俺, which is a rude and casual pronoun very fitting of the slacker eldest. however, f6 oso, a reliable and polite dreamboat, uses 僕, a polite and proper masculine pronoun (normal choro uses this pronoun). so this pronoun use masks the identity of this mysterious figure- but if you looked into it, you'd be able to see that this does link up to f6 oso. it's also possible the artist didnt know this and just went with 僕 to fit the fairytale prince vibe here though lol

i have no way to convey this in english so all of this is just lost nuance in translation. womp womp.

for the record these are the boys' personal pronouns:

oso: 俺 (ore can convey that he's rude, kanji alphabet can convey .... he's old-fashioned, possibly? shrugs?)

kara: オレ(ore can convey that he's full of himself, katakana alphabet can convey that he's [trying to be] stylish or loud)

choro:　僕 (boku can convey that he's polite, kanji can convey that he's proper)

ichi:　おれ (ore can convey a kinda casual-lazy vibe, hiragana alphabet can convey that he's soft-spoken kinda?)

jyushi:　ぼく (boku can convey that he's Just A Little Guy, hiragana alphabet can convey that he's childish)

totty:　ボク (boku can convey that he's Just A Little Guy, katakana alphabet can convey that he's [trying to be] stylish and modern)

CHAPTER 4

demonstration of localization for the medium: totty's dialogue here translates most literally to "What are you talking about?", but "talking" and "about" are pretty long words that are hard to fit into that skinny dialogue bubble. "the hell are you on about?" conveys the same thing, has shorter words that are nicer to fit into a bubble, and also shows a bit more personality (and i think is a little funnier).

this part ends here becaues i forogt about the tumblr post limit. i will continue in future posts

part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4