#i've heard it's trash

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

is the p3r playthrough gonna continue on the other blog or is that #cancelled?

Oh no it's still going on. (for ref I'm not at Oct 4th yet)

Bf I think wanted to take a break, and he got hooked on HellDivers 2 atm. So it might be a bit before I pick it back up. (I was playing the day before yesterday, but we tried V Rising last night instead cause he wanted to play a game together).

I'm going to take this time to go through my backlog/replay older Persona games to work on some projects I keep starting and stopping and losing stuff so I have to keep restarting. TT0TT I'm a natural Sisyphus orz

[metalandmagi]

How come there can be like 30 isekai anime coming out in one season, but I can't have a decent adaptation of SVSSS? It doesn't have to be Heaven Official's Blessing level of animation, just something passable! I only just started reading it, and I'm begging for some visual aids!

[shyflowerhologram]

this doesn't make sense (Deidara rarely does but), what does "thanks to Uchiha blood" mean? if Sasuke didn't have Uchiha blood and genes, he would be a different person, a random villager maybe? Genes make up the whole person, his personality, his looks, his abilities. Sasuke was born as Uchiha, formed as a blob of cells based on Uchiha Gene, expressed them and developed. What do you want him to do, Deidara? Erase just part of his DNA to appease your trauma? I guess that's what most dudebros demand but it doesn't work like that.

For comparison we can look at Naruto. He maybe wouldn't have those powers without kyuubi, but he still would be the same person, because kyuubi isn't in his genome. Meanwhile Uchiha abilities are part of Sasuke's genome. It's really simple. (No, I'm not hating Naruto, it's just a fact).

[toppermostpoppermost]

THE CORE (2003) dir. John Amiel

[wheucto]

anyways. the "hell" in BFDI is not actually hell but rather an afterlife which resembles hell in looks. the only people who went there were people who died in trash compactors in the charades challenge, and nickel suggets that because they died in a similar manner they were sent to this afterlife. that implies that afterlives seem to be based on how you die, and this is the "crushed in a trash compactor in the charades challenge" afterlife.

[beneaththeshadows]

I made this one last December when I was listening about the roman punic wars while watching a beautiful sunset from my window and suddenly I thought of doom and prophecy and then this was just sitting here waiting for some colors. So here it is the dreamer herself, Daenys!!

[queenhawke]

love and respect to people who watch terrible things for their faves but that simply couldn't be me. i have limited time on this earth and im not gonna spend it watching something dreadful just for a glimpse of my little guy when i could simply look at gifsets of the scenes they're in made by people stronger than me

[sodafrog13]

in an ideal world, i will get to see mark play the remake of OFF when it comes out later this year

[shoechoe]

I do not know how I feel about localized Stand names. On one hand they're undoubtedly pretty lame and a lot of the time I really wish the subtitles and dubs could just say the actual names (which almost always punch way harder and are obviously more accurate to the series' vision and aesthetic). It's also distracting to hear the Japanese voice actors very obviously speak English words but have the subtitles say something different. (Also, the whole reason why Stand names need to be localized is stupid to begin with.)

But on the other hand the existence of localized Stand names are just fun to me. They're kind of iconic as a fandom inside joke. While some of the localized Stand names got beaten to death (like a shit ton of popular Jojo memes) I'm pretty sure Limp Bizkit being called Flaccid Pancake in some Jojo media will never not be at least a little funny.

[systematicallycapricious]

I'm a bit late to the party, but I recently got the first volume of the English P4U2 manga!

I am absolutely geeking out over comparing the Jap, Eng, and fan-Eng versions, so if anyone has any pages or panels they want to see side-by-side across the three, let me know and I'll make a post for you! I can't do the entirety of the book of course, but I can do a few pages at least.

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(Below the cut is my initial opinion on the quality of the translation work, some comparisons between various details of the Jap volume and the Eng volume, and some more manga page side-by-sides.)

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As for my impression of the translation work so far... To me, it feels like the translator was trying to preserve more of the original Japanese language/culture than Eng-P4AU chose to? Not in every instance though, as there's definitely cases where vernacular translations are utilized instead of literal. But where more literal translations are favored, the wording can feel a little awkward or OOC in English.

Even still, it's a pretty cohesive reading experience, in my opinion.

Also, they translated "Plume of Dusk" correctly, which is a relief. I was worried that some of the technical lore terms might get bungled by literal translations, lol. Conversely, while I'm glad that they didn't preserve Jap-Teddie's "-kuma" habit, and happy that they included a few bear puns in accordance to Eng-Teddie's speech habits, I do lament the low quantity and diversity of bear puns in Teddie's speech overall. Maybe there just wasn't a lot of good places for those in this volume though, so I'll have to see going forth.

Oh- and I noticed that some of the background signs and text got translations as well, which I think is really neat. (I don't read enough manga to know if that's just a standard feature of manga translations though, lol.)

Granted, this is just my first-read first impression, and I don't know enough Japanese to know if some lines may be translated less accurately or not. Plus, I tend to be on the lenient side when judging the quality of creative works. So please refer to other opinions as well if you're trying to decide the quality of the translation for yourself!

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Fun fact: the Eng version was printed bigger than the Jap version (at least for the Jap volumes I have; no clue if they printed those at multiple sizes).

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Also something cool about the Eng version is that it comes with the same color illustrations as the Jap version had, just sized-up. The exclusive edition also comes with a bonus fold-out poster of the original volume cover!

The end-of-volume artist/editor comic was included as well! I'm personally very glad to finally know what this comic says. My respect for Rokuro-san and Sakamaguro-san (the fish) as creatives has grown even further.

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Here's a few other page comparisons too because I found them interesting. xP

(If you wanna see the fan-Eng in higher quality than the screengrabs I used, you can find it on Mangadex [here].)

[fat-psychward-sockgrippussy333]

My mom hunting me down to listen to how bad the The Boy is Mine remix is ...FUCKIN hilarious. She was like "have you heard this mess?!" I have. Still haunts me🤣

[doueverwonder]

i'm never going to comment sections again, i just wanna listen to Walker Hayes in peace guys.

[grimm-the-tiger]

Libertarians are a pain in the ass. "Look at how inefficient the government is! They won't even fix up the potholes on my street!" Buddy, I hate to break it to you, but your beloved corporate overlords won't fix them, either.

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

The thing is, His Girlfriend would probably first meet him on bad terms, call him the nickname in a condescending way then eventually as they become friends she calls him that for real and then when they actually become a Thing she-

[helpimstuckinafandom]

I feel like we didn't appreciate steven universe enough

[aza-trash-can]

I feel like I should give a pronunciation guide to Esprit's name because I cursed him with French