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Trigun Maximum Chugai Grace Cafe Collaboration - I Translated the Website :3

Hi I saw someone on twt wanting this to be translated and that's literally all it takes to get me moving anymore so!

Anyways I translated all the food and drinks, I found the references they chose really cute except for the evil one lmao and I also included the unbelievably small print drink ingredients if you wanna try mixing them yourself!! 🫶

Also also, if you know how to use a proxy, there is actually some stuff here that overseas fans can get our hands on!! Under the cut to keep the dash clean!! Hope it helps!!!!!

Edit my dumbass forgot the original announcement link sjshsk IT’S HERE!!!

So, the menu

Going from left to right we've got

"Battle Sausage Spaghetti"

"As Many Salmon Sandwiches You Want"

"Love&Peace Donuts"

"Banana Sundae"

and on the bottom row

"The Perfect Meal Plate: Vash's Handmade Fried Rice and Salad" ((´༎ຶོω༎ຶོ`) o k )

"Particularly Wonderful Udon"

"Mille-feuille with Ceylon Tea" (i believe the first part specifies gateau mille-feuille but I went to episode one and checked the subs for what they had her say officially and they left the gateau off so I did too)

"Latte with a random character art"

Character Drinks!!!

The Bride Soda, which comes with a double-sided postcard of the sworn friends (very common nickname for Vash and Wolfwood in JP fandom and ig official uses it too)

So the soda is their proprietary thing, it doesn't say what flavor it is or if it has one, but the shotglasses come with a little bit of smoked oak syrup and black ceylon tea and you're meant to fill the rest of the glass with soda and drink it that way. And then the rest of the text is just information and disclaimers for customers that plan on taking the bottle home (I guess it breaks really easily that’s So. lmao).

Vash's Drink <3

strawberry syrup

carbonated water and lemon juice

yellow candied cherries (drained cherries) and ice

Wolfwood's Drink

crushed coffee jelly and cafe ice (ice made and flavored with concentrated coffee and fruit juice)

brewed iced coffee and gum syrup

blue curaçao syrup and carbonated water

experimental ampules filled with blue soda

the cigarette is full of light brown sugar you're meant to mix in before drinking

Knives's Drink

apple juice and round sliced apples

mint and ice (it looks like mint leaves but full disclosure they have blurred that kanji to all hell I have no idea)

Legato's Drink

blue curaçao syrup

grapefruit juice

carbonated water and a mint cherry

a lemon and ice

Collab Merch

(Overseas pay attention here!!!!!! ChugaiOnline is opening these to online orders so we can get them with a proxy, I'll leave their link at the end of this section!!!!!!)

I've also listed all the prices in yen here so you can convert them to your currency, and all of these are the prices including the listed Japanese sales tax. If you want to see the price without it, it’s just the other number on the image!

So they've got

Two way acrylic figure stands (the main stand comes with a ball chain, you can reference these on Amiami for what this kind of product looks like I'm prettyyyyy sure like they're called different but it looks like they go together the same way). Anyways this is a set of 6 and 1650 yen each, it looks like you get to choose which one you want but they don't have a deal listed for getting all of them.

Next to it are the buttons (also called can badges idk which one is more common over here), set of 12 (6 are regular and 6 are glittery variety). They are 550 yen per button AT RANDOM, THEY WILL GIVE YOU A RANDOM ONE, or a box with one of each all 12 for 6600 yen.

Below that is the polaroid collection, it's also a 12 piece set and you can get A RANDOM ONE, THEY DO NOT LET YOU PICK for 330 yen each or a box with all of them for 3960 yen.

The same exact deal with the plastic (like a vinyl material) postcards underneath, they're double-sided and come one for 660 yen each at random or the whole set for 7920 yen.

The calendar is for 2025 and is 1980 yen probably obvious but y'know

I would be so shocked if a proxy actually let you ship the Kuroneko sama cookie discs lmao but hey wtf they're 1080 yen.

The Bride soda is listed here because this is the same merch that will be sold in the shop but they specify elsewhere that it's not available for online order even in Japan you have to go to the cafe ;-;

Also this is just personal experience but a lot of proxies will not let you get like blind or random stuff like the buttons they don't let you pick which one, some of them will only let you get it if you're getting the whole box.

Annnnnnd online order special gifts!!

For every 3000 yen spent in merch (including tax) you will get a random postcard from this set!! There are 15 to collect, they are NOT divided into halves of the event, you can get any of them at any time or all at once!! However, you can't combine orders made at different times/by different people to get more and if they run out that's it. Altho fwiw I have never seen an event run out of these lol

The online order period will be from Friday, May 24th at 11 am to Sunday, June 16th at 11:59 pm (both JST) and items will begin to arrive (within Japan, proxies will have to handle our own shipping ofc) from August 2024 on a first ordered first shipped basis.

CHUGAIONLINE STORE (JAPAN)

Ok, this last bit is relevant to the in-person cafe experience so it's just for if you're curious about other cool things going on or you have a hobby of watching JP mercari like a hawk and wanna know what to expect!

Guests who reserve places at the cafe online will get copies of some of Nightow sensei's most prized sketch pages, they'll get 3 random ones! Like with the special gift postcards, there are a limited amount and this event will end when they're all gone.

And these are the coasters, guests will get one with every item they order off the food or drink menu at random (while supplies last)! The variety you can get is split between the former and latter halves of the event so there's something new to come back for even if you've already been once! (The first 12 days is on top and the last 12 days is on bottom)

They're also doing a wallscroll campaign!

They'll have these decorating the venue, and when the event is over a raffle will be held where the winners get to pick out a scroll of their choice!

OK I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING RELEVANT HAPPY TRIGUN MANGA CAFE EVENT!!!!!

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Touhou Spell Carnival launches November 19 in the west - Gematsu

Bullet hell strategy RPG Touhou Spell Carnival will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on November 19 in the west, publisher Idea Factory International announced. It will launch both physically and digitally in North America, and digitally in Europe, with a physical release to follow on December 3. It will feature Japanese voice-overs with English, French, and Spanish subtitles.

A Digital Deluxe Edition will also be available for $69.99, which includes the base game, a 57-page digital art book, and a 49-track digital soundtrack.

Usres who purchase either the digital standard or Digital Deluxe editions within the first two weeks of launch will also receive the “Gensokyo Safe Adventure Pack,” which contains the following in-game items:

Rare Yang Crystal (x1)

Rare Meteorite Shard (x1)

Rare Crystal Flower (x1)

Rare Ancient Card (x1)

Rare Helix Ritual Tool (x1)

Rare Warped Ring (x1)

Rare Foreign Charm (x1)

Rare Snowflake Badge (x1)

Rare Thin Feathers (x1)

Rare Shell Rosary (x1)

Rare Growth Elixir (x5)

Touhou Spell Carnival first launched on June 6 in Japan.

Here is an overview of the game, via Idea Factory International:

About

Gensokyo—a remote land isolated from the Outside World, where humans and youkai live side-by-side. One day, the shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei, spots mysterious pillars towering over various locations throughout Gensokyo. These pillars signaled the start of the Spell Carnival, a festival hosted by Yukari Yakumo where one must put their Spell Cards on the line in battle. In order to investigate the true intentions of Yukari Yakumo, who initiated the Spell Carnival so suddenly, Reimu Hakurei joins the fight for Spell Cards.

What is Touhou Project?

Touhou Project is a bullet hell shoot ’em up game created by ZUN’s group, Team Shanghai Alice. Set in the isolated land of Gensokyo, various incidents, known as disturbances, arise from different causes. The story follows the main protagonist, Reimu Hakurei, the shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, as she and her friends resolve these disturbances.

Key Features

Strategy RPG Meets Bullet Hell Mania – Battle in a grid system with a unique blend of real-time strategy elements and bullet hell madness! Hone your strategy skills by moving characters to gridspecific areas, grazing enemy bullets, and unleashing special skills in one simultaneous, action-packed battle!

Gotta Stay Prepped – Don’t just run into battle unprepared! Organize your party’s positioning on the grid, assign skills according to your enemies’ weaknesses, and choose wisely which Ace Spell Card you’ll use.

Need a Boost? – Players will occasionally see objects and Attributes during battle. Objects can block incoming bullets and provide additional effects once destroyed. Attributes can provide boosts and status effects. Use these boosts to your advantage, and maybe you’ll be able to collect extra loot from your victories!

Find Peace in the Hakurei Shrine – Explore the Hakurei Shrine through the lens of Reimu Hakurei! Keep tabs on any active missions, revisit sub-events, strike a pose with Photo Mode, and even talk to some of your favorite Touhou Project characters in Hakurei Shrine as you progress through the story!

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Daniel Law thoughts and observations.  Why is his last name so bloody difficult to figure out?

This is a quick and frivolous post as opposed to my normally long form ones.  I’ve got it hard for Daniel at the moment; I’m wade through the vast expanse that is the internet looking for merch for him.  Steven merch is like shooting fish in a barrel with how popular he is.  K.K. merch is also easy and super cheap second hand.  But Daniel merch.  Hoooo boy, it takes some time and effort to find.

The first issue around him is his bloody last name.  Which Japanese isn’t equipped to deal with.  This shows in my merch quest as I’ve scrolled through pages and pages of items.  But first:

The Darkhorse translation calls him Daniel Low.

The Funimation translation settles on Daniel Law.

When you listen to the sub and the dub, both the Japanese VA and English VA both clearly say “Law”.  I’d like to also note that the Japanese VA for Steven, Mitsuru Miyamoto, has really good pronunciation for all of the English terms/names he says specifically which makes me really think “Law” is the intended spelling.   The credits also reflect this.

Both versions also settle on the title of Lieutenant.  While the literal translation is Assistant Inspector (keibuho - 警部補).  I’m not sure why they didn’t go with Detective which sounds like the most American term and Inspector being British.  I guess Detective is a role while, Daniel would still have a police rank associated with him. But I know squat about American policing terms and job titles.  Maybe, I should go back and watch some Law and Order and cringe?

Where is this total weirdness around Daniel’s name coming from?  Especially if we get a season three and Marcus also shows up for the Calamity Auction arc.

Now, we all know that having an equal transfer of Law into Japanese can’t happen since there is no way to make say a “La-wa” etc.  The best you can get is to drop down in the r-line to the “ro” combo.  But then you’ve got that pesky “w” you need to do something with.

If you wanted “Low” this would be the easiest way to get it.  Go with “ro” and add the long vowel dash making it “ro-oh”

But we can see this reading of “ro” with a long “o” can be [sighs] Rho, Lau; Low, Loo, Rau, Raux, Roe or Roh.

Okay, this isn’t what happens in the credits.  The Japanese credits write his name out this way.  “ro” with the “u”.  Now, the first hit is “Law”.  Yay!

But then we get also; Loew, Low, Lowe or even Rowe!  Argh! 

So, how does this tie into merch?  Well, how his name is spelled on KKSS merch of course and how to search for it!

For Back 2 Back full color acrylics that were Jump (Festa Specials I’d guess), we get him and Marcus being referred to as Lowe.  ‘Cause they are twin brothers and Daniel is the older one! Another issue with Japanese language mechanics versus English but that’s for another time.  I’d read Daniel to be several years older since he’s referred to as “older brother” in B2B but since you have to place your sibling in age relative to you - Marcus has to say older brother in the original Japanese.    

There is also a small special badge set with Steven and Daniel here, where he is also referred to as “Lowe”.  Did I impulsively buy this?  Yes, yes I did of course!

Yet when we look at other items music/band themed (acoustic guitar) , the American heroes (fighter pilot? why?), ice skating, saloon barkeep/western. he’s got a last name of “Low”.

You might begin to think - okay, it is clear that 1.) there is no official spelling of his name down on paper.  2.) merch designers see ロウ and make an educated guess 3.) his name can’t be “Law”.

Buuutttt let’s go to the actual search function of a Japanese site like Goods Republic.  And what do we find in the character list on the left hand side?  Daniel Law.

Additionally,  you go on Zen Market and access JP Mercari directly, searching with the terms of ダニエル and 血界戦線.  You will get merch that not only pulls up Daniel but all the translated descriptions will always refer to him as Daniel Law.

What have I learned from this?  That until we get season three and Daniel gets a floating info box like below, we will never truly know how his name is spelled.  However, with the sense of humor that Nightow has and his wordplay in English, I really still think the original intent is “Law” because he’s a fucking cop.  Come on, easiest cheese joke ever.

And if he doesn’t get a floating info box in a season three, it means they aren’t giving him full justice due to his increasing role in the series.

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My trip to Japan! ⛩️ Part 5 (last)

21.12

The winter solstice made an entrance with a very cold day. Getting out of Osaka station was fortunately much easier than it seemed on Google Maps, and we found our hotel easily. We left our luggage and went straight to the castle. The current one is the third iteration, rebuilt in 1970 after being destroyed twice in the 17th century, when it was first built. Therefore, at 53 years old, this version is actually the longest-standing one. Inside, it's a museum, not a castle, but it was interesting, unexpensive, and the views from the top are fantastic. What impressed me the most, however, was the double moat, huge and full of water. There were even boat rides around it (we didn't ride, but they were there).

We then went to the Namba district, where I had marked a restaurant that had an Attack on Titan collaboration, but it was over. We had lunch in a US-style burger restaurant. In fact, next to Namba there’s this area called Amerika-mura, with many shops of American items or aesthetics. Lots of hip-hop style clothing. It's worth mentioning that the commercial density of Osaka is similar to Tokyo; every building is a shopping center, and there are several covered pedestrian streets as well. Walking around,  we reached Dotonbori, Osaka's entertainment district around the canal of the same name, and went on to a street with several manga and anime shops. I had already browsed some in the previous cities and everywhere, here too, there was little to nothing on AoT. Only a handful of 2nd hand, 2nd rate keychains/badges featuring none of my blorbos (sorry Jean, I love you, but not as much as to buy merch with your horseface on it). Still, I managed to find a tiny string bag from the Sanrio collabo and a couple gachas.

For those who don’t know, gachapon are coin-operated machines that dispense a plastic capsule with a surprise inside. Like a Kinder egg, minus the egg. Each gachapon has a picture showing the trinkets you can get in that machine: small character figurines from a given franchise, or a collection of figurines following a certain theme, or a certain character in various positions; keychains, stickers, totebags... anything and everything. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Japanese Rule 34: If it exists, there's a gachapon of it. The variety of themes and objects you can get from a gachapon is as overwhelming as the commercial streets of the country. Every tourist attraction has some related gachapon. In castles, there are gachas of samurai figures, tiny swords, or pins with emblems of Japan's feudal houses; near zoos, there are ones with animals. In commercial areas, there are entire gacha shops, some with several floors. Some of these shops include a container for recycling the empty plastic capsules, and all of them have a change machine, since gachapon only accept ¥100 coins. The price for gachas usually range from ¥200 to ¥500, with a majority at ¥300-¥400, although there are some "premium" ones up to ¥1000. All good, but I'm not willing to pay so much for a surprise.

⬆️ English subs available!

In this regard, gachas are not alone: buying surprises seems to be something very deeply ingrained and popular in Japan. Many brands sell surprise products. You buy a little box, an acrylic figure, a little doll, but you don't know which model out of the available ones you'll get. In several shops there are products that aren’t for sale; they're tombola prizes. You buy a number at the counter, you get one of those items. While, as Husband observed, we’re not privvy to the exchange rings generated by this business model, not so conceptually different from the stickers we collected as kids or Kinder Eggs themselves, the profusion of surprises really took me by surprise (no pun intended), both for its ubiquity and for the prices, which can exceed ¥1000, and you don't even get a chocolate egg to console yourself if, as it happened to me twice, you get stupid Eren.

For dinner, we did manage to go to an okonomiyaki place that had an AoT collaboration. Usually, collabo places aren’t particularly good places, food-wise. They offer a menu of dishes "inspired" by whatever franchise they’re featuring, and if you spend more than a certain amount, they give you a souvenir like a card or sticker, a surprise, of course. You also have the chance to buy exclusive merchandise made specially for that collaboration. Again, many of these items are surprises. In short, the food was decent, I got my photo with Levi’s cut-out, and got a little card of him, too.

22.12

After breakfast, we took the Shinkansen to Himeji. The city's 17th-century castle, which has remained intact until today, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Himeji Castle was defensive; it's not a palace, although it may look like one from the outside. Still, it's fabulous to see what a castle was like during that time in Japan (the defensive systems are very similar to European ones. As someone who hates the cold, I was pleasantly surprised by the arrow slits with replaceable covers). It's also mindblowing that this megastructure, mainly made of wood and adobe, is still standing after three centuries.

A few years ago, for maintenance, they dismantled it... and reassembled it entirely… with the same 300 y.o. pieces. The two main columns are two logs almost a meter in diameter and 25 metres long, going from the basement to the 5th floor. The views from the top are beautiful. The visit included a stroll through the neighbouring Japanese gardens. Here, there's a very cute restaurant with views over one of the many ponds in the gardens, which, oh joy, had very reasonable prices, so being already noon, we had lunch there. We returned to Osaka, and after coffee we decided to go our separate ways so each could shop to their heart’s content until dinner. I checked a few merch shops for AoT stuff, no luck.

⬆️ This comic book shop had a lot of dedicated doodles. I looked all over twice and Yams wasn't there, but I did find some other familiar faces.

We’d planned to meet in Shinsekai, but Husband got there first and said it was pretty dead, so we met in Namba and went to Dotonbori for dinner. We had takoyaki and kushikatsu, a local specialty consisting of breaded and fried skewers. I also ordered a beef cartilage stew, it was delicious and, funnily, it sort of tasted like fricandó, one of my favourite typical Catalan dishes back home.

23.12

We woke up early to catch the Shinkansen back to Tokyo. We left our luggage at the hotel (the same one as on arrival), and here I had a great disappointment because we planned to have a mid-morning snack at a nearby place, Hekkelun, which has been selling flan since the sixties. I don't know if I saw the schedule wrong on Google or if they changed it in the ten days we were touring the rest of Japan, but it was closed on the weekend. It made me very angry because I was really looking forward to it and, had I known, we would obviously have gone in the first Tokyo cour. I needed to cheer myself up, so after a tea in front of Shinbashi station, we passed by the NTV building, where there’s a beautiful clock designed by Hayao Miyazaki.

We arrived just in time to see the movement at 12, which was, of course, super cute. We then went to the Hama-Rikyu park. It used to be the shogun's gardens and includes things like ancient tea rooms; a seawater pond, as it’s next to the bay; and duck-hunting ponds, an activity which seems to have been very popular back in the day. Using real trained ducks as bait, they led the birds to narrow corners of the pond with camouflaged huts on both sides from where they hunted them. We returned to Shinbashi for lunch and stumbled upon an inconspicuous sushi place in the basement of the station, where we ate amazing susi for almost half of what takeaway costs here. We decided to go our separate ways like in Osaka, to cover more ground. I checkedd a couple of cute stationery shops I’d bookmarked and went all the way to Shibuya to check the Attack on Titan pop-up shop (it opened on the 22nd, so it wasn't there in the first part).

⬆️(Sorry for the awful audio, I was trying to be discrete)

Finally! I got decent merchandise (plus surprise cards for spending a lot my purchase).

There was supposed to be a collabo café nearby, but I had enough “surprises” and Shibuya was horribly crowded. I would’ve expected that a weekday at 6pm, not a Saturday at 4. I met Husband in Akihabara, where we looked at some merch stores (found nothing), had something at a cat cafe (pretty shitty, but the cats were cute), and had dinner at a nearby place.

⬆️ All my Levi stuff was in that blue bag, kitty knew what he was doing!

24.12

We both woke up ridiculously early, so we had breakfast at McDonald's (the only thing open at 6 am where you could sit) and went to Meiji Jingu. It's a Shinto shrine in Harajuku where Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shoken, are enshrined as deities. Emperor Meiji opened Japan to the world in the mid-19th century, ending two and a half centuries of isolation during the Edo era. It’s beautiful, well-maintained and free. There is a small fee for the gardens, that we also visited. These were the emperor's gardens; there's a closed tea house from where the empress would gaze at the lake, with a small pier for fishing. There's also a lily field (barren since it was the middle of winter ofc) with a gazebo to contemplate the blossoming. This field was planted in what was once a rice paddy, where the children of noblefolk were made to work in ancient times to understand the labour than went into rice cultivation and appreciate the food they had.

From there, we went to the ukiyo-e museum a couple of blocks away. It was small but very interesting, with lots of insight into this technique, the one from Hokusai’s famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". We ate at a nearby place, Kyushu Jangara: the ramen was excellent, with its tonkotsu broth, soft-boiled egg, and the comforting feeling that a proper bowl of soup brings on a cold winter noon. We took a stroll through Harajuku; it was so full it was a challenge to walk through the pedestrian street. We then walked down the main avenue, full of fancy brands, to Omotesando Station, where we took the metro to Tokyo Station. Here is Character Street, a gallery of character shops. I’d heard it was expensive, it wasn’t so good, yada yada yada… well, here I did get more AoT stuff, including Sanrio items.

⬆️ There was probably more Aot stuff here than in all of the other shops I checked.

I stopped by the hotel to drop off the purchases, and we met at the KFC in Shinbashi to buy our "Japanese Christmas Eve dinner." The tradition, born from a 1970s advertisement, is to have KFC for dinner on this day. Despite what the decorations might suggest, Christmas is not celebrated here. They’re just into it for the aesthetics.

It was our last night in Japan, but not our last adventure! Around 11pm, right before getting into bed, we got an email saying our flight was canceled. Wham!

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Needless to say, we slept like shit, and at six, we were already awake. Husband chatted with Lufthansa, and they rebooked us on a flight two hours earlier than the original one, so we got dressed and rushed to the airport. Every cloud has a silver lining, though, and I was thrilled when we got to ride on the LTS monorail! See you, Japan!

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Added in the vanishing intro colour for each day.

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#4

Quick question, Coco’s noise in A New Day are referred to as Dissonance Noise in the EN Localization. What are they referred to as in Japanese? (Do A New Day and NEO share the same terminology for dissonance in JP?)

Thanks for the ask! They share the same or similar enough meaning but the words for Dissonance are different.

Coco's Noise are called ディゾナンスノイズ, "dizonansu noizu", spelt using katakana, using the English word for "dissonance".

ディソナンス グリズ Dissonance Grizz(ly)

The hint book you get also calls them Dissonance Noise using katakana as well.

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33 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#3

@cardhoarder asked:

In the original twewy, what is the original Japanese for the prince's 'F this' blog? The joke makes sense in English but I don't think it works in Japanese in the same way.

Thanks for the ask! Let's take a look.

Blog Name

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44 notes - Posted February 8, 2022

#2

NTWEWY: Censoring of God

No this isn't a huge story or plot element that got censored, but it might be worth noting there are two places where the word God in Japanese has been removed in English. One case might be lore related but it depends on how you want to view it.

There will be minor spoilers for 100% completion, if that concerns you, and will be looking at one English subbed line from the anime!

Master Post of EN/JP Comparisons

Uber Pins

In TWEWY these are like the Angel/Reaper where you were limited to how many you could equip. These ranks are called the same in EN and JP.

In NEO, we got Uber Pins. "Super" Pins.

Kinda odd. Wasn't certain if these were on the same level as Angel/Reaper pins in TWEWY but I supposed in EN if they wanted to combine the Angel/Reaper class, this would be ok.

Well in Japanese they're 神クラスバッジ . "God Class (Badges) Pins"

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47 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Found a TWEWY uquiz with NEO characters! (End of game NEO spoilers for character results!!)

60 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

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Toyota Urban Cruiser Review.

By Emmanuel Omeri.

When you say you drive a Toyota, certain aspects like peace of mind, reliability, and good resale value come as a no brainer. The same can be said about the Urban Cruiser. It is not as expensive as other Toyota SUVs. In the subcompact SUV segment, the Urban Cruiser comes as an underdog. It is unlikely to be the first choice, but should be a considered option.

Offered with the Toyota Urban Cruiser is a single-engine option – a 1.5-litre naturally-aspirated K-Series four-cylinder petrol engine. It makes 103bhp of power at 6,000rpm and can be had either with a five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic transmission. The one you see in the picture is the latter. This new engine also does duties on quite a few vehicles released currently and has proven to be not only refined but also quite fun to drive. It’s silent on the idle with no vibrations whatsoever to a point that you’d need to double-check whether or not the engine is on.

Although set on a firmer side, the ride on the Urban Cruiser is far from being uncomfortable. It manages to absorb small irregularities and bad roads with so much ease. At slow speeds, you might feel harsh bumps and sharp potholes on the inside. But go faster and the ride does improve considerably, taking in bumps with more composure. It rides on 215/60 section tyres which further help achieve its comfortable ride quality. Thanks to its 198mm ground clearance, you won’t have to think twice before taking on those massive speed bumps or taking it out where roads cease to exist.

Stepping nside the Urban Cruiser, it has a familiar air to it. There is an all-black cabin that is welcoming and straightforward with so much functionality. There are hard plastics used all around with only a single silver insert over the glovebox and a piano-black surround on the centre console breaking the monotony. You sit upright on well-cushioned and supportive seats with good visibility all around. That combined with good ergonomics help the Urban Cruiser become very easy to drive. Behind the steering wheel sits a twin square-pod instrument cluster. But the infortainment screen at the centre looks old and outdated, especially when rivals are offering all-digital clusters these days.

Now to address the elephant in the room, the Toyota Urban Cruiser is a rebadged Suzuki Vitara. I expected some more cosmetic changes to set the Toyota apart from the car it is based on but the Japanese manufacturer seems contented with just a tweaked grille. Apart from that, everything else has remained unchanged. Wearing a Toyota badge definitely has its benefits; higher warranty (100,000 km compared to the Vitara's 40,000km), better after-sales and reliability and an overall hassle-free ownership experience. On the downside, unlike some of its rivals, there’s no option for a diesel engine. Also, it has maintaimed the old torque converter system when most of its competition has switched to new and efficient technology.

As mentioned above, the Urban Cruiser is not likely to be the first choice for someone looking to buy a sub-compact SUV since competition is really stiff with well-established local car dealerships like Ford, Mahindra XUV300, and new capable rivals like Kia Sonata, Nissan Qashqai, Renault Kiger and many more on the way. But the merits of the Urban Cruiser win over its shortcomings and that definitely should not be overlooked.

[sashamutch]

More emotes and Sub Badges for my gorgeous partner BayinJD who streams Tuesday and Thursday Nights at 5:30pm (Sydney Time) Haven’t done Pixel art in years but it was super fun relearning it! Also Monkkeeeee

[forbidding-souda]

hey hey !! can i get korekiyo nsfw hcs?? with sub male s/o

(NSFW) Shinguuji Korekiyo with a sub boyfriend headcanons

i am so OH MY GOD i almost said "i am so excited for monday" and I realized it's sunday night adbhewdkjh holy shit holy shit i am getting my A badges today on IDV woot woot let's go girls

-Mod Souda

❤ His preference is giving rather than receiving - he wants to service you and make everything the most pleasurable for you. He doesn't often give commands nor make you do anything in a sadomasochistic way.

❤ ^ This also means his pacing is naturally steady when he fucks you. He focuses more on the rock of his hips then the speed at which he goes (a more grinding motion feels better on his [lack of] muscles anyway).

❤ He likes pressing you into the mattress face down. He just finds such a thrill into seeing you so void of movement as well as accessibility.

❤ He just likes it when you bend down in general. Even in a non sexual way - he is going to stare. He is going to stare very obviously.

❤ He likes teasing you!!! If you want to give him a command and ask of him for something (touch me here, go harder, go faster, kiss me) you're going to need to give him a little motivation or else he will hardly listen. You asking him of something reveals how desperate you are for it and he's going to play on this.

❤ Gobbles up all your cum. Om nom nom nom.

❤ He is a dick sucker, be warned. Sucks the life out of you.

❤ ^ Ball sucker, too, and not even playfully.

❤ He talks a lot during sex and he's very wordy - full sentences describing his pleasure. Full sentences telling you how good you are and how brilliantly you take him.

❤ ^ Your ears will not get enough.

❤ He really likes it when you moan his first and last name. Full government name fs.

❤ Just a bit does he like to do things in public. He loves the idea and will have no issue acting it out roleplay-wise but for real? He gets real anxious about doing it actually - he doesn't get anxious at the idea of being caught but more being disrespectful towards Japanese culture.

❤ There's a blanket consent that the two of you have.

❤ It is very very very easy to get him high off of pleasure - especially in the situation where you give him full consent to use your body as he wants.

❤ Dominant Shinguuji will have the best time while you are detained - where he can tease you and touch you all over.

❤ Has like a whole collection of different types of lube probably lmfao.

❤ ^ You need different types of lube depending on what you're doing anyway.

❤ ^ Prostate stimulating gel ohsjfhsjkfdnwds.

❤ Will get you drunk on pleasure if he so intends. I'd say it depends on how good you are - if you're being complacent or not.

❤ He likes to jerk you off as he's fucking you. What's the term? Multitasking?

❤ Aftercare wise, he is incredibly gentle and considerate. Out of any DR character he knows the specifics surrounding BDSM relationships and all the things that need to be done to keep it healthy and a mutuality.

[cutestupid-emotes]

Japanese Cup Noodle Beef Ramen Twitch Sub Badges

[weareone-exoyj-a]

❝  ―  from  exo  planet  !

yang  ji-seul,  better  known  by  the  mononym  jiseul,  is  exo’s  chaotic  lead  rapper  and  resident  pet  “stealer”.

basics  !

birth  name  .  yang  jiseul

nicknames  .  seul

birthday  .  june  15th,  1993

place  of  birth  .  seoul,  south  korea

nationality  .  korean

languages  .  korean  (native),  mandarin  (fluent),  english  (conversational),  japanese  (conversational)

physical  !

faceclaim  .  kim  bora  (sua)  from  dreamcatcher

height  .  162cm  (5′3)

body  modifications  .  multiple  ear  piercings  (12),  nostril  piercing  (left)

personality  !

positive  .  adaptable,  creative,  loyal,  skillful

negative  .  abrasive,  impulsive,  procrastinator,  resentful

career  !

groups  .  exo  (exo-k,  exo-yj),  superm

positions  .  lead  rapper,  main  dancer,  sub  vocalist

company  .  sm  entertainment

training  .  7  years  (2005-2012)

trivia  !

at  the  age  of  eleven  she  was  talked  into  auditioning  by  her  friends  from  her  dance  classes.  she  originally  auditioned  for  jyp,  but  was  rejected.  she  tried  again  for  another  company  shortly  after  her  twelfth  birthday  and  was  accepted  into  sm  entertainment.

her  representative  badge  (super  power)  is  positive  space.

originally  she  was  supposed  to  debut  in  girls’  generation,  but  was  held  back  because  she  didn’t  fit  the  group’s  image.  her  vocals  weren’t  strong  enough  is  what  the  evaluators  told  her.

jiseul’s  favorite  title  track  to  perform  is  lotto  because  of  the  styling  and  energy  of  the  track.  her  least  favorite  is  overdose  because  of  how  dangerous  parts  of  the  choreography  were.

she  doesn’t  have  a  great  relationship  with  her  parents  as  they  didn’t  want  her  to  go  into  music.  jiseul  has  been  trying  to  reconcile with  them,  but  they  refuse  to  answer  her  calls.

she  likes  to  babysit  exo’s  pets  and  even  makes  jokes  that  they  love  her  the  most.  chanyeol  still  refuses  to  leave  her  alone  with  toben  because  he  may  not  get  his  dog  back.

jiseul  is  no  stranger  to  play  fights  with  the  boys.  she’s  most  often  seen  messing  around  with  chanyeol  and  kyungsoo  to  start  one.

[ochazukeland]

Pocket Monsters EP 105: Yuzu Gym! Type Battle - 3 vs 3!

First of all, pardon for the wonky subs, this is the first time I am trying to do this.  Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have the Amazon Prime JP account so I made my translation of Trovita Gym challenge’s episode based on that content. It includes the episode with both OP and EP, as well the “Who’s that pokemon?” segment and the next episode preview.

Download link, translation notes and comments about this particular episode below the cut:

So... I'm not really allowed to tell you where to get that specific Japanese video without having access to Amazon Japan, but if you google… idk, something like [RAW] Pokemon 7 TV series, on a website that sounds like a cat meowing… who knows what you might find there?

DOWNLOAD LINK (.ass format): https://www.dropbox.com/s/r0tsc7k504c1hol/%5BRAW%5D%20Pokemon%20-%20105%20%5B480p%5D.ass?dl=0

How to watch this: download the zip, save both the video and the .ass subtitle file in the same folder, keeping the same name in both files (for instance, ep2015.mkv and ep2015.ass), open VLC and have fun.

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Translation Notes:

Kept the original names in this sub - Satoshi/Ash, Kasumi/Misty, Kenji/Tracey, Ookido/Oak, Musashi/Jessie, Kojirō/James, Nyarth/Meowth.

Rudy is named Ziggy - his sister Mahri is called Marie in the Japanese version. His home island Trovita is called Yuzu and his Shell Spike Badge is known as Triumphant Star Turban (Rinbō) Badge in Japanese.

Pikachu is Pikachu, Togepi is Togepi… Starmie is also Starmie in Japanese.

Meowth is Nyarth, Bulbasaur/Fushigidane, Squirtle/Zenigame, Charizard/Lizardon, Seel/Pawou, Staryu/Hitodeman, Electabuzz/Eleboo, Exeggcutor/Nassy. I kept the official romanization when possible.

Move game-wise, I tried to keep the ENG names, except for dengeki which can be translated as “electric shock” and apparently adapted in English as “Thunder Jolt” (it’s different from “Thunder shock”, denki shock, Pikachu’s signature move).

I don’t like translating oniichan/oneechan to “big bro/sis” but it’s kinda important aspect of Marie’s part in the episode (how much she wanted a sister, what a nice family the three of them could be together, Marie, Kasumi-oneechan and oniichan), so… yeah, I know many of you are not familiar with common Japanese/anime terms so I kept as that. At least these sound better than “older brother”/“older sister”…

Oh, Rudy’s famous lines to Ash at the end of the episode: サトシ、カスミさんを大事にしろよ。Please don’t complain about shipping goggles because “Satoshi, take good care of Kasumi-san” is the most neutral route - daiji ni suru could go either for “take care” to “treasure/cherish/regard Kasumi as someone very important”, alright.

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Other random notes:

Ash is such a mega brat in this episode, I love the current merry nice kid from SM/PM seasons but I miss this damn loud-mouthed version lol.

Rudy is overall much nicer than the dub version. Okay, besides the fact he pretty much called Ash an “uncultured swine” lol, he was quite polite. Compared to my impression of years ago, rewatching this episode made me feel quite bad for him and his sister? (I like the conclusion from Dengeki Pikachu manga, Rudy literally becomes an older sister for Mahri…)

Random trivia, Rudy calls himself “The South Star of Southern Cross (constellation)”. It’s only mentioned once by the end of the episode, but lol oh well.

You may say that Ash was completely oblivious to the whole proposal dilemma during the episode (he was lol) but this is one of the episodes that makes Pokeshipping canon at least by Misty’s side. 

[channieswife21]

EXO NEW MEMBER AU

Meet Sukihana 

Face Claim: model from Freal Luv

Birth name: Suki Tamazaki

Stage name: Sukihana

Position: Main dancer, Rapper, Maknae

Birthday: November 21st 1994

Zodiac: Scorpio

Height: 5’10

Blood type: AB -

Hometown: Kyoto, Japan

Languages: Japanese, French, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Samoan

Sub unit: EXO-M

Badge: Element manipulation

Instagram: SukiTheHana

Facts:

Fav artists: Nicki Minaj and Lana Del Rey

She's a virgin

Joined SM in 2010

Excelled in all her trainings, only trained  2 years before joining EXO officially

Doesn't take any shit, especially from Sehun 

Listens to rock music 

Mother is dead she has an abusive father

Birthmark in her head which causes her to have a streak of white hair called Mallen Streak

Can hit really high notes, her and Chen annoy everyone when they have a battle of who can hit the highest note

Didn’t get along well with other female trainees

Attracted to everyone at the hip but especially Kris and Tao

Fights with Sehun all the time and no one knows why

Originally had her own room but she doesn’t like being alone and was always in chanyeol's bed so they just put her bed in his room

Can play the violin like a god

Has a huge crush on heechul and Donghae from SJ (she cant choose)

Hourglass figure so she's teased a lot for being “overweight”

AN: Thought id try my hand at the whole AU thing!! Cant wait to get started! 

[gramoturtle]

NTWEWY: Censoring of God

No this isn't a huge story or plot element that got censored, but it might be worth noting there are two places where the word God in Japanese has been removed in English. One case might be lore related but it depends on how you want to view it.

There will be minor spoilers for 100% completion, if that concerns you, and will be looking at one English subbed line from the anime!

Master Post of EN/JP Comparisons

Uber Pins

In TWEWY these are like the Angel/Reaper where you were limited to how many you could equip. These ranks are called the same in EN and JP.

In NEO, we got Uber Pins. "Super" Pins.

Kinda odd. Wasn't certain if these were on the same level as Angel/Reaper pins in TWEWY but I supposed in EN if they wanted to combine the Angel/Reaper class, this would be ok.

Well in Japanese they're 神クラスバッジ . "God Class (Badges) Pins"

So yeah, these might be stronger than the first game's highest level pin if you're going on rank name alone.

Graffiti Ranks

So you make your way up the graffiti ranks, coming across pretty interesting ranks like Composer, Angel, Fallen Angel, Demon(!!) and you're very curious what rank could be at 100?

Uberpsychic

Ok, not quite what I was expecting, a little disappointing, but it matches with the strongest pin rank in NEO so I guess that's ok.

But in Japanese...

It's 神 "God"

Which is more what I was expecting!

I wouldn't really consider this major but we got Demon as a rank which isn't a named entity in TWEWY at this point. So if Demons come up, perhaps, God(s) or deities, or something ranking above Angels and Demons will too.

Or maybe like how we've had Angels under cover, we already have a Demon messing hanging around.

Finally one small point about ""God"" being brought up in the anime:

Anime Episode 9 (Sub)

What comes next, God only knows

鬼が出るか蛇が出るか "Will a demon come out? Will a snake come out?"

What's important to note is a snake is a good sign! Snake = Buddha, good things. This gives it the meaning of "Will it be a bad thing? Or a good thing?" Similar phrases it can be translated to in English are "God only knows what may happen", "You never know what might happen", "It is difficult to predict", etc..

So yeah, Hanekoma, is "just" using a version which uses God in it.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Mazda 2, 2020. A revised version of Mazda’s sub-compact hatchback has been revealed in Japan. The car, which was previously badged as the Demio for the Japanese market, will now be called the Mazda 2 on all markets, including Japan.

[docexe-mx]

When you think about it, the trajectory of the Super Smash Bros. series is fascinating.

It started as a relatively low budget “passion project” from Masahiro Sakurai and a bunch of developers at Hal Laboratory, who wanted to produce a more accessible fighting game. The higher ups at Nintendo weren’t even initially sure about localizing it outside of Japan.

From such humble beginnings the series has gone on to become:

One of Nintendo’s biggest and most popular franchises with sales on the same echelon as series like Mario, Pokémon and Zelda. Some characters, like Captain Falcon, are better known these days for their presence in Smash Bros. rather than for their games of origin.

One of the best-selling fighting game franchises in history, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in particular recently being crowned as the best-selling fighting game of all time. The series is also the originator of its own sub-genre within the fighting genre: The platform fighter.

One of the most celebrated and beloved crossovers in the videogame industry, encompassing not only characters and games from Nintendo, new and old, but also some of the most popular characters and franchises from the Japanese side of the industry. The Smash invitation has become a badge of honor by this point.

Not bad at all for what started as a “small passion project”.