#wagahai the cat

[ginyia]

Have you seen the Shoe and Wagahai perfect tag team in the cat poll?? They’re losing right now :(

https://www.tumblr.com/best-fictional-cat/713286258013650944/round-4-group-2

Of course I have and don’t you worry anon but they have taken the lead

Everyone vote at @best-fictional-cat !!

[best-fictional-cat]

Shoe + Wagahai (Ace Attorney) vs Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service)

[dufferpuffer]

Did you ever figure out what's Snape's pronoun in japanese? 👀 I'm curious

I have jumped through so many hoops... I want to buy the hardcovers in Japanese, so I didn't want to spend money just to check a word... but piracy is hard for Japanese things... So I've signed up for an Amazon kindle unlimited thingy account and Amazon is useless in my country nobody has a fucking amazon account

AND THEN to read it I have to download the KINDLE APP on on my PC and log into AMAZON on it uuugh whinge whinge complain tantrum

I got all the japanese books - and I've been tipped off that he might use 'Wagahai' and FUCK do I hope he uses wagahai but it seems I cannot use the search function with kanji. Nor does it seem to search through furigana. Only hiragana and katakana. uuuugghhhhhh So I just need to... search for Snapes name in every book and scour the pages. Cool. Cool.

So I am looking through each book's every mention of スネイプ... Dumbledore uses 'Washi' and is, as always, delightful - using the typical old man 'jya's. I hope he and Sebarusu enjoyed their umasou custard tarts. Shoutout to Suneipu's poisonous eyes at Hari- and Ron.

「ミネルバ、わしは歓迎会のほうに戻らんと。二言、三言、話さねばならんのでな。さあ行こうかの、セブルス。うまそうなカスタード・タルトがあるんじゃ。わしゃ、あれを一口食べてみたい」 　しぶしぶ、自分の部屋から連れ去られるように出ていきながら、スネイプは、ハリーとロンを毒々しい目つきで見た。

秘密の部屋 (p. 124) How come "さあ行こうかの、セブルス。うまそうなカスタード・タルトがあるんじゃ。わしゃ、あれを一口食べてみたい" sounds so much cuter in Japanese

I got ONE 'Watashi' - but I'm not satisfied with it. It's in a note written for Slytherin to train their new seeker. "I, Professor Snape,"

『私、スネイプ教授は、本日クィディッチ・ピッチにおいて、新人シーカーを教育する必要があるため、スリザリン・チームが練習することを許可する』

秘密の部屋 (p. 167) But a note is formal. What does he call himself casually...?

「校長、一言よろしいですかな」 影の中からスネイプの声がした。ハリーの不吉感がつのった。

秘密の部屋 (p. 218) ("Headmaster, May I have a word." From within shadows came Snape's voice. Harry's sense of foreboding increased.) Unrelated - just iconic af.

BUT I FOUND IT!!!!

スネイプはますます底意地の悪い笑いを浮かべた。 　「校長、ポッターが真っ正直に話しているとは言えないですな。すべてを正直に話してくれる気になるまで、彼の権利を一部取り上げるのがよろしいかと存じます。我輩としては、彼が告白するまで、グリフィンドールのクィディッチ・チームから外すのが適当かと思いますが」

秘密の部屋 (p. 219)

HE USES WAGAHAI!!! He is SO cat themed in Japanese, what the hell... English its always bats and spiders, Japan is straight up like 'He purrs and is a cat' ... For people who don't know: Wagahai is an old-timey male pronoun. It's long been out of use and sounds arrogant, pompous, formal... "I'm better than you. I look down on you. You're a peasant; I'm a Lord." It re-gained popularity within fiction because of the 1905 book about a teachers pet cat by Natsume Souseki, 吾輩は猫である (I am a cat). It is STRONGLY associated with that book and cats in general. It's almost always used for non-human characters, especially to give an 'old military man' or 'from a different time' feel.

[gondaleer]

Guys it’s SO geometric Wagahai (Ace Attorney Soseki Natsume’s Cat) time

[dailyedgeworth]

today, two special cats are in a competition!!! go support them!!!!!

[changewingwentz]

Happy international cat day from dr flug and wagahai

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drawing him as much as I can before his big day part 3

[animenekos]

Kare Baka: Wagahai no Kare wa Baka de R - Episode 3

[dkettchen]

Using my incredible japanese typing ability, I found the album cover and song Karina was on about on last night's drawfee stream, please enjoy ToT

[valid-name]

thinking so hard about dgs pokemon au

[gamercats-fight]

Wagahai from The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures vs Cats from Stardew Valley. Vote for your fav!!

Need help picking? Check down here!

Wagahai - CAPCOM - 2015 - Calico cat:

(GAA1 spoilers ahead) At first owned by Soseki Natsume (yes, THAT Soseki Natsumi) who gave them to the protags when he left London for home. Their new owner Iris making a machine to make catdoors for them ends up solving a murder case. Wagahai spends a whole case loose in a courthouse because of this. Also their name is literally just one of the Japanese pronouns for "I" (as a reference to Natsume's famous book making it "the cat pronoun" but holy shit who names their cat "I"???)

cats - Concerned Ape - 2016 - Orange, gray, + golden cats:

-So cute, just sleep all day, can actually pet them

-Orange

[cats-in-video-games]

Wagahai (third from the left) from The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures

[whimwolves]

another silly redraw warmup that I ended up taking too far

[best-fictional-cat]

Round 1 Group 4

Shoe (Ace Attorney) vs Wagahai (Ace Attorney)

[despair-tea]

any pronouns but it's your 人代名詞 (TL note: your personal pronoun in japanese)

[homuraimpersonater]

In my dream I met Natsume Soseki.. but I didn't speak with him because I woke up before I could

[starswallowingsea]

did u know that there's one scene in the manga where gentaro mentions schrödinger's cat and dice is like what's that and there's a whole scene of gentaro pretending to be a cat and then he and ramuda run around dice in circles meowing

ITS IN ONE OF THE DRAMA TRACKS TOO I REMEMBER SHASHI SENT ME A LINK ONCE AND ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY VOICED