#i got the japanese version of kh2 just to practice n challenge myself and also | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mejomonster · 6 years ago

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thanks to kingdom hearts i can follow its japanese cutscenes because i’ve heard kh so much that when world, light, darkness, everyone, precious, destiny, comes up in japanese i can still follow...

this only shocked me recently because i ran into a random japanese kh1 scene on youtube and despite it being one of the ones I rarely watch, i still managed to catch 70% of the words. it just surprised me... how many words kh uses i must have just internalized the meaning of.

#rant #kh #sometimes i can really tell that game was a majority of my childhood #i watched a kh japanese cutscene in some theory video where kairi's grandma tells the story #and didn't need subtitles or the narrator to lemme know #i knew enough of kh by heart to figure out the words by context #also that paopu scene with riku is INGRAINED in my core #i know every line in 3 languages basically #and kh2's opening was suprisingly easy for me to follow in japanese #i got the japanese version of kh2 just to practice n challenge myself and also #because thats the first game basically in my priority list to experience originally without localization changes #and for some blessed reason maybe cause kh is for general all audiences #i can follow roxas and all his dumb shennanigans #the only jarring thing about kh2 was how much kimi and kimitachi got used for 'we' 'us'#since i'd never seen kimi used before #that and the fact sora and roxas both use ore which is hilarious to me #i also loved roxas's voice actor because it felt like somehow the exact same experience as jesse mccartney?#at least to me?#kh2 in japanese felt like a familiar loved friend who somehow was uniquely new but with all the same well loved charm #i thought it was cute the old lady used atashi #i thought it was cute roxas said dameda when the nobodies start bugging him #it feels exactly how you'd expect kh2 to feel in its original form - really really good and warm #i never studied the word for world or light but because of kh i can recognize it in a fast speech #thanks kh ;w;

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