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tokutaiseichan · 3 months

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Lost in Localization: Ritsu's Typing Quirks

when texting, Ritsu always use halfwidth punctuations (.) and (,) instead of the fullwidth ones (。) and (、) like how people who types in Japanese normally do.

here you can see how throughout the chat MC (and everyone else tbh) types their punctuations with fullwidth characters while Ritsu doesn't. this, of course, doesn't carry to the English localization because everything is written with halfwidth characters by default.

i'm pretty sure the reason for this choice is because how Ritsu types is also how attorneys in Japan write their legal documents. there's probably a proper explanation why those documents have to be written like that but this trivia is also just something that i vaguely remember learning from watching a random Detective Conan episode eons ago so pls don't quote me too much on this <(´>ω∂`)>

i just think it's neat how the writers actually cared about getting this detail right!

#tokyo debunker #ritsu shinjo #the conan episode is about how eri (ran's mom who is an attorney) got kidnapped #her kidnapper then text either ran or kogoro to reassure them that she's alright but conan noticed how the text #was written with fullwidth punctuations instead of halfwidth ones so he realized that it probably wasn't eri who were sending those texts #that's the only thing i remember from that episode everything else is a blur #crazy how i still remember this detail even years after i watched the episode 😭 human brain is a curious thing #sinostra

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