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#swears don't translate directly back and forth from english and japanese
project-sekai-facts · 2 months
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which characters have cursed in-game? I know akito does a lot but I was wondering if anyone else has at all or if all the swears just go to akito and sometimes ena lmao
Akito swears the most, but I'm pretty sure some of the VBS characters (side characters included) user coarser language from time to time. If memory serves that covers Kotaro, Arata, and Tatsuya. Ena is translated as saying "pain in the ass" in the niigo main story if you count that as a swear, and I'm pretty sure she tends to use ruder language sometimes like her brother (though I don't read the scripts in their original language, so I'm basing this off of how fan TLers choose to adapt them).
Ensekai rarely puts profanity in the script. Like quite a bit of Akito's dialogue on JP could be TL'd as "fuck" or "shit" (he often uses ruder language). It makes sense though since this is a game with a relatively young target audience. I don't keep up with ensekai's translations but I don't think they've used profanity (aside from "crap" which doesn't qualify imo) much at all since 2022?
The following characters have used crap on ensekai (which again isn't really profanity but it's like the rudest word that ensekai frequently uses)
Shiho
Airi
An
Akito
Tsukasa <- only says it once
Nene
Ena <- most frequent user
Mizuki
Kotaro <- only says it once
Sometimes these are just used as filler words for exclamation points. In a flashback in the Leoneed main story one of Honami's bullies says "were you talking crap about me". That's probably the most severe the use of crap has ever been on ensekai, because it is being used as substitute for the word shit. There may be other instances of this - I didn't cross check every single piece of dialogue since it's 1am as i'm writing this and they use crap quite a lot.
Also Tsukasa says "fuck" in english twice in Dappou Rock. Len says it once in Ego Rock.
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