#yet again im doing this for knowledge

[mukkuruingly]

Hikari's sword techniques & more JP reading

[Contains spoilers for the entirety of Hikari's Path]

I've been wondering to myself what Hikari's sword techniques translate to in English from Japanese, so I took it upon myself to just open up the dictionary and see what I can learn.

(disclaimer: I'm still studying the language but you can look these kanji up for yourself on jisho.org or any similar Japanese dictionaries as reference. I'm open to any corrections!)

Tenretsuzan - Ten (天) is [heaven], retsu (裂) also read as saku (裂く) can be read as [to cut] or [to rend], and zan (斬) is [beheading, murder, kill] according to the dictionary. The best way to interpret this is just calling it Heavenly Slash or perhaps Heaven Rending Slash.

Hienka - Hien (飛燕) means [a swallow in flight] (as 飛 is to fly and 燕 is the kanji for the swallow bird), while ka (華) has a number of meanings: [flashiness, showiness, brilliance, splendor, bloom, flowers]. This one is a bit tricky since this has a more flowery flair to it, so it can be Flying Swallow Splendor or something similar.

Sougetsusen - Sou (双) also read as futatsu is [the counter for pairs or doubles]. Getsu (月) means [moon], and can also be read as tsuki. Finally sen (閃) means [flash] or [brandish]. The closest you can read this as a whole is Twin Moon Flash.

Shinjumonjigiri - Shin (真) means [true], jyuu (十) is the kanji for the [number 10], monji (文字) or moji means [character, letter], and then there's zan (斬) again but it's read as kiri (斬り) this time. This one seems pretty straightforward, especially after you see how Hikari executes this move in-game. So you can simply just call it a True Cross-Slash, since the number 10 is written as a cross. Alternatively you can go with True Tenfold Slash too, I think.

Now for a bonus!

Hikari's Latent Powers are known as Shadow's Hold, and later changed to Light's Radiance after Chapter 5. In the original Japanese text, it's read as 陰の力 and 陽の力 respectively.

This kanji (陰) can be read as either kage or in, either way they both mean [shadow] but can also be read as [negativity] or [yin].

Meanwhile (陽) can be read as either hi or you, and have the following meanings: [sun, sunshine, sunlight], [positivity] or [yang].

The kanji for [power] is (力).

Overall they can be read as Power of the Shadow and Power of the Sunlight, or you can just say Hikari has been harboring negative energy most of the story until chapter 5 where he's able to draw out his positive energy. They technically hold the same meaning in the localized text anyway.

In addition, the description in Japanese on the first row says "Draw out the power of the shadow within." for Shadow's Hold, while with Light's Radiance it says "Draw out the power of light that conquered the shadow within."

I think that's about the findings I have for now. I'd say they aren't exactly big changes between the original Japanese text and the localized English text, but it does give you some extra context if you look into the source a bit.

It's been a learning experience, and what I got is... translating is really hard and can be a very thankless job for the translators working on these-

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never stops being funny to me how everyone at the gym assumes im FAR more competent than I actually am without question. went to a roped sesh w one of my clubs bc they asked for novices to come along so the ppl training for the climbing qualification could get some hours in teaching ppl the basics & I wanted to learn. two climbing friends ask me if I've memorised the handbook for the assessment yet and are genuinely surprised when I tell them I'm not on the course. the instructor running the qual course (again, who I'm friends with) goes around and points out who's on the course and who's here as a novice to the assessor who had just dropped by, gets to me and goes oh yeah you're on the course too right? nope. then he goes ah but still they're a competent climber. nope again. pure novice. literally here bc I don't even know how to tie in and belay mate, u know that bc you've rope climbed with me before and had to fill out a supervision form bc im not signed off!! theres not even that many ppl DOING the course i dont know why he associates me with it. the first time I rocked up at one of the rope sessions the same guy (who, btw, has a hyperfixation on climbing safety & gear and is a fucking stickler for it & calls literally everyone else out abt it!!) asked if I could lead belay him - IM NOT QUALIFIED. TO LEAD CLIMB LET ALONE LEAD BELAY!!!!! then today they move on to gear and everyone is surprised I don't have my own belay device or harness. IM NOT SIGNED OFF. TO BELAY. I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW. THATS WHY IM HERE. I EXCLUSIVELY BOULDER. YOUVE NEVER SEEN ME DO ANYTHING ELSE. WHY WOULD I OWN ANY ROPED GEAR???? also bear in mind I'm a solid 10-15 years younger than the instructor & most ppl doing the course like where the hell are u getting this impression from guys 😭😭

[karokawwo]

also recently ive gotten the urge to redesign kari since I've been thinking about him and his background a lot lately

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Why should knowledge hurt? Why not just make it gold? For me myself and I

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dog just came in with half his mouth swollen??????????????

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when will aup sidestories return from war and stop leaving me bitter about how the main story ended

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2, 5, and 18 fort the artist asks?

(artist asks)

2 and 5 answered here and here!!

18. What are you currently trying to improve on?

oh my god time management holy shit i just spent literally 2 weeks with poor sleep and doing my homework at dumb hours and last minute and it was the worst, i woke up today at 8:30am after spending all night working on homework for a class at 10:30am today. i went to bed at 7am. i regret it. but also i don't because i got my work done and now i probably will pass that class. i never want to do that again. all of my homework is drawing. at least my drawings are sexy as fuck but holy shit at what cost, i need to have better time manageme--

anyways that's not what the question is asking. there's two things!!! im trying to improve on my speed at which i draw, and like. getting things on the page instead of just like. thinking about about it Really HardTM. i've been getting much much better at Just Drawing lately and im super proud of myself!!!

in terms of actual drawing type things, im trying to get better at comic paneling and flow!! like. how to make a comic/illustration be readable and still interesting to look at!!! or even WONDERFUL to look at!!! im doing pretty decent at making a piece be readable, and preventing the viewer from looking at the wrong panel at the wrong time, but im still working out how to direct the eye around the page and make it fun while doing so. i think it's just a matter of using the negative and positive spaces constructively to make something that looks REALLY really cool, but i haven't super been able to put it into practice effectively yet. im working on it!!!!

[farolero-posting]

Hey speaking about music with vocals have you listened to this rendition of Niko and The World Machine because if not you should

[bobzora]

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[gilbirda]

You can see this shift funny enough in videogames.

Modding and cracking games has become apparently such an "advanced" thing that I saw modding Stardew Valley described as "very advanced process".

Like, I'm going sound like an old woman but back in my day to pirate stuff and/or mod stuff you had to do some serious understanding of what your computer was made of in the sense of downloading sketchy third party programs and open your router gates and simulate LAN parties to play together with friends with your pirated games.

Don't misunderstand me but I'm very confused every time I open a video tutorial and I get explained what Program Files folder is and where to find it. Or when I'm warned that I need advanced computer knowledge to Mod a game because I have to find out where my game files are located.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[epaily]

say what you will about 2017 but atleast when i was in high school tiktok and generative cheating ai werent a thing yet

[inviso-bill-strikes-again]

fronting againnnn because I thought we were gonna be in the water today and turns out we aren't in the water until TOMORROW so I guess I just have to stay here until then :{