#what even is this localisation??

[harriertail]

I find it incredibly disturbing that in the current age of social media trends and fads and food crazes are incredibly short lived and fleeting yet cause global shortages and production issues as everyone everywhere tries to grab the Next Thing and every corporation copies as well.

[bakafurai]

Are they......you know....

[vindraft]

towa's "so you're telling me i have scars on the outside and inside. great. what a joke." line cracks me tf up i can't take it seriously

[otomebunny]

[Monthly Overview] Josei-muke Game Releases October 2023

October is here babeeeeyyy. This month's releases aren't much but are chock full of content such as Hana Awase Saku Complete Volume (all 4 volumes) releasing this month being around 50~80 hours worth of gameplay. Get excited.

Games releasing this month are:

What in "hell" is bad? (ENG/JPN/Traditional Chinese/SPN)

even if TEMPEST Dawning Connections (ENG/JPN)

Hana Awase Saku -Himeutsugi-Hen- (JPN/ENG/Simplified & Traditional CHN)

Hana Awase Saku -Iroha-Hen- (JPN/ENG/Simplified & Traditional CHN)

Hana Awase Saku -Karakurenai/Utsutsu-Hen- (JPN/ENG/Simplified & Traditional CHN)

Hana Awase Saku -Mizuchi-Hen- (JPN/ENG/Simplified & Traditional CHN)

Josei-muke News Highlights of September 2023:

Morpath, indie developer of "Club Suicide", Disbands

Akira (Togainu no Chi) Is Getting an R18 Figure by native!

CollarxMalice boys getting turned into Nendoroids

Vyn Richter (Tears of Themis) getting a Nendoroid

Stress-reliever rhythm game where you spank a dude's ass to the beat? More likely than you think

Enstars Releases a Training/Exercise App

Homicipher Chapter 1 (Demo 2) Released

👇 Check out the post down below👇

[22degreehalo]

Hyperfixating on something really makes you just so. Pathetically easy lol.

The other day my mum and aunt were discussing Ivy league colleges and their home states and I was listening a bit more intently than normal because I heard 'Stanford' and 'Harvard' (but no 'Cornell', sadly), and then someone suggested that Stanford was in Connecticut.

And I just said, no: Yale is Connecticut.

And then just sat there trying not to beam because. That's Josh. :))))) I was just reading a fic where he wanted Sam to go to Yale because Josh is from Connecticut and Josh went to Yale and Connecticut is Josh Lyman :)))))))

[justicerikai]

official-kun,

why desuka.

explain kudasai.

[project-sekai-facts]

on the topic of en localizations sometimes i feel like they arent that bad but i remember when knock the future got ruined and i fall back into despair

Yeah a lot of the localisations are actually alright I think we just get so used to using fan TLs for a year that we get annoyed when they change. Knock the Future to A Bright Future though? No way. It annoys me so much when they change the titles that are already in english, like I don’t mind correcting the grammar in Smile of Dreamer, Cast Spell On You, etc, but did Period of NOCTURNE and Knock the Future!! have to change? There was nothing wrong with them.

[gu6chan]

had to fix a family member's phone and they kept trying to make small talk while i was literally struggling to figure out what was going on and was so irritated by the end of it i stormed off and opened my messages just to get one slightly annoying DM about how localisers shouldn't "Make stuff up" and im ngl they caught me at a bad time bc normally i would just set it down and wait till i was in a better headspace to reply but ended up sending a message so petty and toxic and awful im looking at it now half like "Don't test me asshole" and half "I'm so sorry you had to catch me at this time holy shit"

[scrawnytreedemon]

I'll never get native-English speakers who misspell Ghirahim's name as "Girahim." Like. It's written. It's only writeen. That's the only way you know his name. We didn't even get an out-loud pronounciation until Hyrule Warriors.

Fun fact: I found this guy on Youtube years ago, among other things, dissing on Ghirahim in his SkSw review. You wanna know how he pronounced his name?

Jeerahim.

The GIF discourse has nothing on this.

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

got impatient and skipped past half of turnabout ablaze into aai2, and why does kay speak like a completely different character now

[banqanas]

Fan reports from The Rampage's 16 Next Round Niigata concert (20231223) MC time

Attention: Not word by word translation or report. Mainly paraphrase of what the person/reporter remembers. Interpret it at your own discretion.

Hokuto: ...there's a lot of speculation popping up on SNS. Our world currently is where it's easy for those kind of things to spread around. But we will hold our head high (in the original text it is "puff out our chest") to deliver song all 16 of us are proud of. And we believe that if we present it with confidence, everyone watching will enjoy it too. We look forward to your warm and passionate support!

Screenshot of tweets of fan reports under cut. Also included a korean tweet for additional reference/source. But not translated using it

Tweet 1

Tweet 2

Korean thread

※Screenshots in case the tweets get deleted. I couldn't find other fan reports posted anywhere else or using other keywords

[wizards-daily-gazette]

Celebrating Coming of Age in Jungle

In Jungle, when a man turns 20 years old, he is given griffin's teeth by an elder, while a woman is given a jade earring. They keep them with them even if they leave the village.

Original Japanese: ジャンゴルの成人のお祝い ジャンゴルでは２０歳になると男には獣王の牙、女にはヒスイの耳かざりが長老から授けられる。村を出ても彼らは肌身離さず大切に持っているそうだ

Originally published 23rd January 2011.

[mechazushi]

It's pretty damn bad when the mobile games character designs. . .

Make the Anime's Charater designs. . .

LOOK LIKE SHIT!

YO THEY ARE MAKING A KAIJU NO. 8 GAME.

didn't we talk a bit about this xDD @mechazushi @sonicasura

Also tagging @kafkahibinomybeloved @j4yslayz @ashiraismyname @iceclew @quinowskie

[aenramsden]

The following is not my idea; it was the original brainchild of a friend of mine named Omicron, with help from various others including EarthScorpion, TenfoldShields, @havocfett and ShintheNinja:

So, you know what I want to do one day? Run (or play in) a D&D campaign in which the Big Bad Super Dragon that is fuckoff ancient and unfathomably powerful and whose actions have shaped history and bent the course of nations and had repercussions on the whole culture and society in the region where it's set; the Bonus Special Boss for some endgame optional quest after you defeat the direct BBEG and win the campaign...

... is a white dragon.

To explain this for people not deep into 5e monster lore; D&D dragons are sapient beings, and known for their instincts and tendencies, and whenever you meet an big evil dragon that's really old it's usually this ancient creature of terrible intellect Smaug-ing it up all over the place.

Except white dragons are fucking stupid. Like, they're still capable of speech and thought! They're just… feral, hungry morons. And you almost never see them portrayed as ancient wyrms for that reason; they lack majesty. Critical Role did it, yes, but even then, Vorugal is explicitly the most bestial member of the Chroma Conclave, and the others are the more intelligent planners and long-term threats. An ancient white as a nation-defining endboss, though; not a thug for a smarter master but as the strongest and biggest threat around is just not the sort of thing you tend to see.

Adventurers: "Oh wise Therunax the Munificent, gold dragon of Law and Good, what can you tell us adventurers of the evil dragons which rule this land?" Therunax the Munificent, 500-year old Gold Dragon: "Good adventurers, know this: this land is torn apart by the evil of Tiamat's spawn. The eastern marches are the dwelling of Furinar the Plague-Bringer, black dragoness whose hoard is a thousand sicknesses contained in the body of her tributes. The southern volcanic mountains are the roosting of Angrar the Wrathful, the fiery red dragon, who brings magmatic fury on all who do not worship him. And the northern peaks are home to Face-Biter Mike, the oldest and most powerful of all, of whom I dread to speak." Adventurers: "F-Face-Biter Mike???" Therunax: "Oh yes, verily indeed; two thousand years has Mike lived, and his eyes have seen the rise and fall of five empires, and a hundred and score champions have sought to slay him; and each and every one he bit their fucking face off."

Like... I want to see a campaign where Face-Biter Mike is genuinely the most powerful dragon in the region, if not the entire world. Where sometimes he descends on a city to grab himself some meatsicles and causes a localised ice age by the beat of his vast wings and the frigid wastes of his mighty breath and by the chill his mere presence brings to everything for miles around him, and everyone just has to deal with that for the next decade. An entire era of civilization comes to an end, an empire falls, tens of thousands starve in the winter, all because Mike wanted a snack. Where his hoard is an unfathomably vast mass of jewels and artefacts and precious stones frozen in an unmelting glacier, except he is a nouveau riche idiot with fuckall appraising skill, so half of his hoard is coloured glass or worthless knicknacks, and he doesn't give a shit.

"Your Draconic Majesty, this crown is… It's pyrite." "Yeah, well, it's brighter than this dusty old thing made out of real gold, it's my new best treasure. Throw the other one away." "…throw the Burnished Tiara of Bahamut, forged in the First Age of Man, your majesty???" "See? I can't even remember its fucking name." "But my lord-" "DO YOU WANT TO BE A MEATSICLE" "…I will fetch a trash bag, your majesty."

But at the same time, he's not stupid, he's just simple, and in some ways that makes him more dangerous than the usual kinds of scheming Big Bad you see in these things, while simultaneously justifying why Orcus remains on his throne (because he's lazy). Face-Biter Mike doesn't make convoluted plans or run labyrinthine schemes; he just has a talent for violence and a pragmatic, straightforward approach to turning any kind of problem he struggles with into a problem that can be resolved with violence. Face-Biter Mike has one talent and it's horrifying physical power, so his approach to any complicated problem is "how do I turn this into a situation where I can fly down and bite this dude's face off?" with absolutely no regard for the collateral damage or consequences of doing so, because those are also things he can turn into face-bitable problems.

"My lord, the dread necromancer Nikodemion is using his undead dragons to attempt a conquest of the eastern kingdom; his agents are everywhere, his plans are centuries in the making, what can we do against such a mastermind?" "I'm gonna fly over the capital and eat the eastern king." "M-my lord???" "The kingdom will collapse without leadership, Nikodemion will win his war, he'll take the capital and crown himself king." "And that helps us… how?" "Once he does I'll fly over to the capital and eat him." "…" "This is why you advisors all suck. You're all about convoluted plans when the only thing I need to win is know where my enemy is so I can fly down there and eat him. Stop overthinking things."

And, like, yeah, it's a simplistic plan, but when you're several hundred tons of nigh invincible magical death, you don't need brilliant strategy; the smartest way to win a war is, in this case, the simplest. He's not even all that clever at figuring out the consequences of face-biting, he's just memorised the common consequences of doing so.

(If you want to go all in on Mike being the major mover and shaker in the region; Nikodemion only even has a pet zombie dragon because Mike killed the last dragon to show up and contest his turf but wasn't going to eat a whole dragon by himself. Nikodemion got to stick around and amass that much power because Mike ate the Hero of the Realm while he was adventuring because he figured the Hero would come and try to slay him at some point. Nikodemion got started because Mike ate half the leadership of the Academy of High Magic who typically keep evil wizards and necromancers in check. And then eventually this product of Mike's casual, careless actions becomes a big enough problem to bother Mike personally, at which point Mike eats him too.)

He doesn't even really fail upwards, either! He is regularly reduced to nothing but the glacier he stores his hoard in, but he's Face-Biter Mike so nobody wants to commit to actually ending him forever lest they get their faces bitten the fuck off. And his hoard's in a huge-ass magical glacier so nobody can get to it without running into the Invading Russia problem; it's hard to wage war when everything is frozen over and you're both starving and freezing to death. Once he's been beaten back to his central lair and has lost all his holdings… I mean, he's still a problem, but he's a far away problem. So he loses his assets and spends a decade in a cave brooding it up while no one dares risk trying to actually kill him, and then a generation or two later he flies down to a kobold colony and gets himself some minions, or a dragon-worshipping mage comes to offer his service against a pittance from his hoard, or a particularly stupid cult starts thinking they can get in good with him and leech off his power, and then he's (hah) snowballing again.

He's also got a very… well, the kind of weird Charisma that Grineer bosses do. Like Sargas Ruk, who's a malformed idiot, but oddly charismatic. As he's a dragon, that makes him a natural sorcerer and thus Charisma is all he needs. He's pretty relaxed when he isn't in a face-biting mood, and he's kind of infectiously optimistic, because his life has taught him that he will succeed as long as he perseveres. So he just believes it.

And sometimes that's really refreshing to work for, as an evil minion of darkness! It's like, you're coming to your Evil Dragon Lord with terrible news; you've worked for evil overlords before, you know how it goes. You fall to your knees weeping and tell him that you've failed to seize the incredibly powerful magical artifact, you think your life is forfeit. And he's just like "Eh, it's okay, these things are all over the place. Better luck next time. You remember the guy who took it, right?" and you go "Y-yes, oh great lord!" and he's like "Sweet tell me his name later and I'll grab it" and then eats a frozen adventurer he kept around as a snack.

His followers tend to quickly realise that if they fail him, bringing some temple's silver or a sack of brightly coloured beads or a couple of dead cows means he's super forgiving because at least he's got something out of the day. "Oh boy, cows? It's been forever since I had those, ever since the Orc Steppe Nomads took over it's all about goats and onions. Today is a good day." He's a master of delegation by dragon standards, in that he just tells you "Just go get it done, I don't care how" rather than micromanaging you and constantly appearing as an image in smoke or taking over your campfire.

The key part of Face-Biter Mike as a threat to players (because he exists in the context of a D&D campaign) works well in that you can rely on several known quantities:

He will not pull sneaky shit that you don't see coming

He will not make convoluted plans that you must work to unravel

He will consistently attempt to come down and wreck you personally if he finds the opportunity and you are a threat to him

You cannot fight him head-on (at least not until the last leg of the campaign, and ideally as an optional boss rather than mandatory)

So as long as you are good at staying under the radar, thwarting his minions (whom he gives broad orders to with almost zero oversight) and not putting yourself in face-biting range, you can deal with him. If you succeed, it won't be the first time Mike has lost his assets and had to go brood in his glacier for a decade or two before rebuilding. It happens; he can deal with it. And that's a win for you within the context of a single campaign, so take the win.

And if you're not going to use him as an enemy, he works pretty well as a quest-giver, too! The costs for failure are obvious and straightforward, and "do whatever, just get me mine" means that players have a lot of freedom in accomplishing their goals. As far as evil overlords go he is actually one of the least dangerous to work for; his pride is relatively subdued by draconic standards, his goals are simple and typically achievable, and he is easily pleased.

(There's also a good chance he is the forefather of any draconic sorcerer in your party, because Face Biter Mike is a deadbeat dad.)

[exaltedfuzz]

A bit of a study of those old PSM endpages by Adam Warren. Actually a super fun art style to work in...

(I wasn't sure if I was going to post this, but it's pretty funny.)

Seeing all this typed out for the ID looks really silly, so I hope it's appreciated. (Below the cut.)

[ID] A text heavy vaguely comic-y page featuring various Ace Attorney characters. Top left reads: "Coming in Ace Attorney 3: Two hotties straight -- erm... BI -- out of every bisexual's three-way fantasies!" Beneath that, text reads: "(For a character meant to be "M.I.A." she sure shows up a lot, huh? "Fridging? More like "defrosting"!)

To the right of this, an illustration of Mia Fey and Diego Armando. Mia has her arms folded and is looking at the viewer. Diego is holding a coffee cup. (An arrow is pointing to the cup saying "Not the only "steaming hot" mug here. Rowr.") He says "She's mine, BTW."

Overlapping his speech bubble is a speech bubble from Lana Skye, which reads: "Mia? What about that intell-sexual attraction we had?" With an asterisk (*) next to it. The asterisk leads to the clause: "Only in the localisation. Sorry Lana, but Chihiro's type is tall, dark and bitter! (...Just like Godot blend #107). Lana is in a panel on her own, sweating.

At the bottom of the panel, a speech bubble from Jake Marshall cuts the border. This reads: "I thought I was meant to be Lana's cow-boyfriend...?" Angel Starr replies: "Oh please. Even I have more x Lana fem-slash fanfic than you." In a separate speech bubble, she says: "...Besides, you're the one who said "not all cowboys eat tacos", pardner."

At the bottom right, the signature reads: "Fuzz 25". [End ID]

[ellaismydog]

So I rewatched the Trigun 1998 episode with Wolfwood's death yesterday, and it got me thinking about how Vash and Wolfwood use each other's names.

Because Trigun 1998 is weird in that it's the only version where Wolfwood uses Vash's name regularly, instead of using a nickname. And he does it SO much. This could be a localisation change, or it could be because Maximum was in its infancy and they hadn't identified that character quirk yet, but still. I think it's so interesting.

But then, 1998 has that strange scene just before Wolfwood's death, where he says "I only really know you as the Stampede. You could at least tell me your real name". Which sets Vash up for the absolutely perfect line of "Between you and me, my name is irrelevant", which.... ahhhh it's so good.

But it's still WEIRD, right? Because Vash is, ostensibly, his real name. And Wolfwood knows that, he's been calling him Vash since the beginning, Vash told him his name about 15 episodes ago -

Except.

Wait.

No, he didn't.

Vash NEVER TOLD WOLFWOOD HIS NAME, because he was too busy doing the whole Blue Stradavari Andri Charlton Heymoss (no way am I typing that name out in full, I'm just putting what I can remember) bit! MILLY was the one who actually said his name - Vash never introduced himself properly at all.

So, shit. This weird moment could actually be read as a call back, a parallel between a joke and one of THE MOST TRAUMATIC MOMENTS ever put to animation. They're bookending Vash and Wolfwood meeting with Vash and Wolfwood parting, which is evil just by itself.

But then, you can also consider Vash's reaction. Because, both times, he refuses to give Wolfwood his name.

Now. I love the "irrelevant" line, I think it's so romantic, I've already gushed about it here. Because it's saying that these two people know each other so well, they don't even really need names anymore. But really, doesn't it highlight one of the more 'negative' aspects of Vash's character? He doesn't like committing to things. He lies to nearly everyone he meets, about the kind of person he is, his intelligence, his age, his history. This version of the show literally started with people being unable to pin him down. And then, even with Wolfwood - who Vash suspects may be preparing himself to die, remember - he still doesn't give him his name.

Maybe it's because he's scared. Maybe it's a way to try and keep Wolfwood from dying, just so he comes back to get his name. Either way, it's the last thing Wolfwood asks of him, and he doesn't do it.

Just... oh my god. The INACTION and REGRET piled into that choice. It really summarises their entire relationship. Because really, if Vash and Wolfwood had just talked to each other more, so much heartache could have been avoided. But even here, Vash can't let himself be vulnerable in that way. He avoids it, the risk of being seen as he actually is, the risk of bekng hurt. And then, when Wolfwood actually dies, he suddenly doesn't even have the option anymore.

God this show hurts me so much.

I kinda buried the lede here, but I also wrote a fic about this idea. If you're interested, here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66621268