#but the japanese culture is wrong for it

[my-animeandmanga-journey]

This is the shittiest excuse I've ever heard of for a divorce!!!

Did he seriously think he was protecting Hazuki by throwing her back like a fish that's too small? "Oh, my family hates you, so I'm getting rid of you- but I'M keeping the kid, tho."

THIS! IS! SHIT!!!

You don't protect someone by throwing them out in the street! You do it by getting in their abuser's face and telling them to back the f*** off!!!

Contrast Hazuki's ex with Kudo:

And compare Hazuki's ex with Koji (before Koji grew a spine, that is):

Which one is more similar?

Even the Bible talks about this:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24

But Hazuki's husband didn't do that. No, he chose his parents- probably his precious inheritance and family name- over his wife. "Oh, I love you too much to let you put up with this, so I'm taking the baby and kicking you out." No, if he actually loved her, he would choose her. He would CUT OFF his family to protect her, if necessary.

And what happened to Hazuki because of it? What is she thinking?

"Oh, but it's my fault."

Her husband treated her like shit and threw her out, and she blames herself. She wants to act like she's healed from it, but she hasn't, not if this is still her thought process.

[svartalfhild]

Unsurprisingly, people are already being fucking weird about Mizu's gender.

Headcanons are all well and good, but maybe we shouldn't be so eager to apply modern Western gender politics and terms to a character whose identity is so tied to the time, place, and circumstances in which she exists.

Please remember that Mizu was forced to present as male for her own safety and agency. Please remember that allowing others to see her as a man and call her he/him is not a choice; it's protection; it's a means to an end. Until we see Mizu talk about her gender in further detail, that's all the context we have.

Don't project what you want to see onto her and then treat it as fact.

[catboygirljoker]

some observations from going down a rabbit hole of japanese language xigbar yesterday

(apologies for the youtube watermarks. i got this clip from this video.)

[Video ID: a fifteen-second clip from a cutscene from kingdom hearts 3D: dream drop distance, with japanese audio and english-language visuals. it's the scene where xigbar tells sora that he's not going to wake up. end ID.]

keep in mind that this clip is just the japanese audio being played over the visuals from the english language release. the subtitles aren't a direct or literal translation of the words being spoken; they correspond to the localized dialogue that the english voice actors wouldve been given

hōchū ōtsuka (xigbar's japanese va) and james patrick stewart (his english va) give, to my ears, pretty similar vocal performances. this is the case for pretty much all of the characters ive seen so far in my xigbar-centric explorations (roxas's vas sound nearly IDENTICAL). the notable exception being xemnas, whose japanese va straight up sounds like he's trying to talk without moving his mouth

in the english dub cutscenes, the character animations often feel...floaty? disconnected? like, because they're not synced up to what the characters are saying and how, their gestures frequently seem random and unmotivated. in retrospect it's obvious that this issue wouldnt be present in the original language because that's the dialogue they would've been animated around in the first place!

now that im actually watching the character animation with the dialogue it was actually done for, i appreciate it a lot more. its so expressive. smiles.

at the end of xigbar's speech here you may notice him saying the phrase "tte hanashi." this is his japanese catchphrase! it means something along the lines of "so they say", "or so I've heard", et cetera. i love "as if" im a big fan of "as if" but i also love the idea of xigbar consistently undermining the information he gives and emphasizing how often he eavesdrops and spies on people.

he says "tte hanashi" very very often. multiple times in most of his scenes that ive seen so far. way more often than the english dub says "as if"

he doesn't say it normal like im pretty sure that's not how you say it in normal speech. like sometimes he does say it normal, but he always draws it out at least a little and often really draws it out, emphasizing it with some kind of gesture, like he does in the clip

seriously if there's a moment in the games where xigbar says something while doing a cunty little gesture he is probably saying "tte hanashi" in the japanese version

this is my new vocal stim. i can't stop saying it

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

[philzokman]

natsume soseki did not say "don't say 'i love you', instead say 'the moon is beautiful tonight, isn't it'" FOR NONE OF YOUS TO WRITE IT INTO UR FICS!!!!!!!!

[itabagsarefun]

people have been dumb on tiktok lately, so let me say that all ita bags are welcome here. To me itabagging is less about rules or conformity, but about pure expression for your passion and love through collecting and display. if u have a window front bag with merch in it (official or fanmade), congrats you have an ita bag!

[bucephaly]

I have a question that may be stupid. A manga I read has a character who is Cherokee and Japanese. She's based on a friend of the author's who is also Cherokee and Japanese (her father was stationed in Japan and is a recognized member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma). Some people in the English fandom have referred to the character's ethnicity as "Japakee" and I... I feel kind of uncomfortable with that term? It reminds me of WWII when Jap was a slur commonly used, and combining that with Cherokee makes it sound kind of anti-Cherokee to me. But I'm not Cherokee, I'm Japanese + Iranian American, so I went, "Wait, I don't think I get to say to someone else that this isn't an okay term. I'm not part of this marginalized group."

I couldn't find any Cherokee or just indigenous people in general discussing this online. Are there, idk, blogs run by Cherokee/indigenous people I can run this sort of thing by? I don't want to barge into your asks just because your posts come up when I search Cherokee, since that seems rude. At the same time, it's hard to find people to ask about this kind of thing. But I certainly don't want to be ignorant of what people in the actual marginalized group being portrayed think. I know I wouldn't want anyone ignoring what Japanese or Iranian people felt about a similar term used about us.

Sorry for the rambly ask. I have ADHD, sometimes I go on too long.

Eh yea that does been a lil weird, but mostly because of like what you said about the Japanese slur tbh. The portmanteau does remind of what some natives will do when they're mixed between tribes though haha, but that's mostly jokes among our communities.

I'll open this up to my native followers, what do yall think?

[tomboyyyaoi]

japanese/mexican wolfwood is the best (and i think most correct) not bc of any design reasons but bc of his clear passion for good ramen and the way he evidently carries around a bottle of tabasco in his pocket

[merrilark]

!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna!!!!! Have my first Japanese class this Thursday!!

[zhengzi]

okay i have a lot of unincubated thoughts on kim’s relationship to asian-ness as filtered through my own experiences as a chinese diaspora person navigating both my home country in se asia and also canada for a period of time

also i need more lore on seol, i must flesh out the context of kim’s seolite heritage in proximity to seol’s place within the wider geopolitics and culture

if there are gaps in the lore, i will certainly fill them in myself

[vaamm]

i'll be honest im not a big fan of some tokrev characters naturally having unnatural hair colors i was big into the idea of each gang bonding over dyeing/bleaching their hair together either diy or at their nearest local hairstylist character design was peak but not their development

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m always so paranoid I’m being fetishistic by being a weeb; i.e. writing names in japanese in the tags (am learning jp via self-teaching methods) and reblogging photos of Tokyo (mostly Shinjuku) and sometimes hot anime chicks. And then you get these LUNATIC ANONS 😭😭😭. I always get a revelation of, “Ah. I should be nice to myself.” Because holy shit they send me into hysterics.

My lunatic anons are totally normal idk what you mean

[soft-serve-soymilk]

I feel the problem with texts like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Sunset Boulevard, and The Memory Police is that my analysis feels too off-the-wall compared to what they want us to regurgitate ._.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

analyzing hermes, emet-selch, the ancients and ascians, how they're written, and the fandom's reaction to them be like hm. emet-selch's role in this fuckery is compounded by the fact that his backstory as a genocide survivor is incongruous with his ruling a huge genocidal colonialist world power in the present da [ANTISEMITISM BLAST]

[dubioushonour]

Extremely entertaining to me that the fan translations for this song are all very polite and fantastical but the subtitles on the official video say bullshit in the chorus

[maxellminidisc]

Wait quick q is the author of that Yaoi article that same white man who wrote ACADEMIC articles/papers about the value of shotacon??? Or was that a different disgusting white man???