#engrish in anime

[lost-technology]

More TV Tropes stuff:

Gratuitous English: Gunsmoke is an explicitly English-speaking world, so this abounds. Unfortunately, Nightow's English skills are less than perfect (and the anime had Engrish abound). The second episode shows us a flier for a "BODYGARD" who is a "CREAT SHOOTER LIKE VASH THE STANPEAT". There's also a sign that says "COFFE & RESTLANT!!" in Episode 5. When Vash uses the computer in Episode 26, it says "Searth Target, All People Relate to Lem Sayblam". In the manga, there's one instance where there's a container of salt labeled "solt". The Quickdraw application in the eponymous episode is pretty legible, though. Maybe Wolfwood is just a better-than-average speller? The whiskey labels are very faithful reproductions of actual brands… except for "Dim Deam", though that may be an intentional Brand X-ing of Jim Beam. And of course, "LOVE AND PEASU!"

Am I the only one who has taken the messed-up English of Trigun - no doubt just the crew trying to create an English-speaking world, and mentally / fan handwaved it (as a native American-English speaking fan) as "Of COURSE it would be that way! This story takes place centuries into the future!" As in, yes, it makes perfect sense to me that people call them "Restlants" now and use "solt!" If you look back into history, things in the same language 100-200-300 years ago were not the same. Everyone who's had to plough through reading Shakespeare plays knows this. I read The Pilgrim's Progress as a very book-nerd teenager. That was a whole other country. I enjoy watching Tasting History with Max Miller on Youtube and I've even made some of the foods he's featured. Whenever he delves into an Old English or Old American recipe and reads the original print from an archive it's interesting how things are different ("plums" being what we'd call raisins and sometimes currants, for instance) and the delightful phrase "serve it forth." What are surely little mistakes in '98 Trigun, for me, become a part of the worldbuilding! OF COURSE language evolved! Hell, in the manga-universe, where the Earth forces come, I wouldn't be surprised if there's dialect differences between whatever Earth-English evolved into and whatever Gunsmokeans / Nomanslanders are using!

[a-titty-ninja]

No Waifu No Laifu - Yuri Edition

[arbitrarygreay]

Megazone 23, part 3 (first half)

All of the text being hand-written is so endearing. There was a screencap I didn't include here where RPOBABILTIY OF DEATH 98%, and I can't even blame them, touch typing muscle memory do be like that sometimes. Anyways, my highlights:

Screencap 1: The total gibberish of these numbered and bulleted steps

Screencap 2: TILITY PROGRAM. U- is a prefix, who knew

Screencaps 3 and 4: from ARER 71 to ARIA 70. These two frames happened right after one another.

Screencap 5: These people can spell annihilation, but not cler [sic]

Screencap 6: UNTILL NOW, Hard On Geometry Space Attack Advice, but what really gets the chuckle from me is Cyber System A General Idea.

Screencap 7: The subtitle of the audio contrasted against the text. Lol.

Screencap 8: MISSAIL happens on a myriad of screens in this, which only makes it even more hilarious when I did eventually find a screen where not only were missile and probability spelled correctly, but "loading" was mangled into "loadimp"

Not included here: a cap where half of the letters in "energy" were upside down for Reasons.

[constantlyquestioningg]

i need to rewatch azumanga daioh. core part of my childhood

[bobauthorman]

Okay, I think it says:

"MOSUTO

THAT MOSUTO!!

OPEN EXHIBITION MATCH OF CHARITY

PLACE: IN TORADE GYMNASIUM"

[cryoverkiltmilk]

We're going to find the upper limits of how many (or how few) syllables can be used in saying 'bacon egg and cheese'.

isekai about a nyc apartment block getting teleported into a fantasy realm, and how this group of people who previously have only had incidental contact with one another come together to build a vibrant community in their new circumstances. there's a season-long arc about introducing bagels and pizza to the fantasy world that gets into the details of sourcing ingredients, developing new technologies, and learning how to work with supernatural substitutions.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Tell me this isn't an effective fan art or fanimation tool:

(As in being able to leave the caps off these ink markers for up to 72 hours and still be able to use same; I believe such is the implication here)

[jjr1971]

So much DANGAR!

We are in a time of grave DANGAR! (source: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam) {Ok, this did crack me up a little}

[conventionalwisdomcomic]

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 0

I will always, ALWAYS stop to notice any silly sign, logo, or brand name in an anime that's an only slightly altered version of something else. Without fail.

Also, I'm gonna level with you all: I already had two whole comic ideas before I'd even finished watching the into, it's gonna be a few weeks before I even get into the plot of the show itself. Yeah, it's gonna be one of THOSE watch-throughs.

Conventional Wisdom / Patreon

[cringywhitedragon]

[hosharambles]

My hero 1x6 reaction is premiering on YouTube! Aizawa-sensei is the GOAT, Izuku has finally grown an infinitesimal amount of b r a i n

And All Might teaching children still gives me a headache

All that, and more - in the damned video, you damned nerds

[cryoverkiltmilk]

First character design reveals are out for the anime adaptation of Plus-Sized Elf / Elf-San Can't Diet / Elf-San wa Yaserarenai. One of the characters, Oga-san (an ogre) has extremely strong maternal instincts. She tries to adopt child-sized characters on more than one occasion.

Possibly not understanding AmericanEnglish vernacular, the animators have decided to indicate this portion of her personality in what turns out to be the funniest way possible.

I love engrish.

[arbitrarygreay]

Megazone 23 Part 2

[umihoshi]

a sport anime character with Suwabe Junichi's voice who calls himself 'Kingu' (in engrish) 🤔