#i can't read japanese lol

[cherryblossomssmash]

Disclaimer: I can't read Japanese. I just used google lens and translate. 😁 I just love my boys and want to share these cute profiles to everyone. ☺️ If there are anyone there that can translate, feel free to comment or edit the photos. Especially the Yes or No part.

1. Kazu's Profile: Answered by Sakuya

Saku got it right that Muku is kind, Tenma is admirable, and Yuki is cool. ✨

2. Omi's Profile: Answered by Kazu

For Omi, everyone is kind and Autumn Troupe is cool. 😌

3. Masumi's Profile: Answered by Omi

Tsumugi is the kindest for Masu. No one is cool or admirable for him. 😂

4. Hisoka's Profile: Answered by Masumi

Masu understands the assignment and wrote "Marshmallow" for the Kind, Cool, and Admirable. 😂

5. Juza's Profile: Answered by Hisoka

Lol. Hisoka wrote Juza is Choco Marshmallow! 😂 Juza thinks Omi is kind, Kumon is cool, and Saku is admirable.

6. Homare's Profile: Answered by Juza

Uhm, Juza got it right that Winter Troupe is kind, and Homare thinks himself as admirable and cool. Lol. 😅

7. Citron's Profile: Answered by Homare

They are both chaotic 😂 Homare wrote himself as admirable, Tsuzuru as kind, and Azami and Yuki as cool, but Citron corrected that all of those are him. 🤣

8. Sakyo's Profile: Answered by Citron

Full of red marks. Even Sakyo's name! 😆 Citron wrote himself as kind, cool, and admirable. 😂 Sakyo corrected that Omi is kind, and the 1st Gen of Mankai is cool and admirable. ☺️

A3: 6TH ANNIVERSARY: BLOG RELAY 1

#i can't read japanese lol #so someone please translate #haha #a3! act! addict! actors! #a3! mankai company #a3! 6th anniversary #6th anniversary blog relay #part 1 #sakuya sakuma #kazunari miyoshi #masumi usui #hisoka mikage #juza hyodo #homare arisugawa #omi fushimi #citron #sakyo furuichi

[writinredhead]

Friendship with genki has ended - pixiv novels is now my best friend 🤝

#it's how i learned English tbh #and now I'm literally in a translation BA... #also - i can't bring myself to read boring textbook practice texts #with fanfiction I've got a lot more motivation lol #japanese langblr #of sorts???

[solradguy]

I am so easily distracted by sad monster men with beautiful hair and claws and perhaps a large sword

#textpost #Hold one out in front of me like pspspspsp and you can get me to do tricks #Siegfried needs to be more fucked up he like drank evil dragon blood and you can't even tell #I can make him worse #I still don't know his lore outside of that lmao but I wanna get to it in the game and not just read it on the wiki #There was untranslated Japanese text on the wiki and they do fan translations on there #I had to close the tab I can't cheat on Guilty Gear sorry Granblue Fantasy gacha game #My grandma used to have an absolute unit of a Maine coon named Siegfried that hated everyone #and it's an uncommon enough name that I still associate it with that cat #We called him Ziggy lol #So when I see Siegfried Granblue I do think of Siegfried Cat pretty often #He was grey with tabby markings and had a huge poofy tail lol #The only time he ever let me pet him was when he got really old. Rest in peace you grumpy bastard [affectionate]....

[the-sage-libriomancer]

i've had dysfunctional Honda family on the brain lately, and i got to thinking about Katsuya's sister—better known as Tohru's bitchy aunt who had no respect for Tohru's boundries and treated her like shit. she and Tohru's cousins are set up as an inconsequential first boss, out of Tohru's life and the story halfway through the first act, and then she's barely in the series ever again. canon-wise there's not really much to be said about her: she's a shrill, selfish woman who's basically a Japanese Karen. there isn't anything more to her character, and in the context of the story there doesn't need to be.

but i just got to thinking—what was she like as a kid? what was it like for her growing up, when she had a strict and uncompromising father, a mother who died when she was a teen/young adult, and an older brother who grew up frustrated and repressed?

Tohru's grandfather said that he and Katsuya were always struggling, with Katsuya striving to meet his father's unfair expectations and Tohru's grandfather (who henceforth is going to be called Toshiro bc i can't keep typing out "Tohru's grandfather") unwilling to accept that his son wasn't the person Toshiro wanted him to be. imagine having to live in a house where your older brother and your father are always fighting, where your brother slowly becomes a different person over the years and your father won't stop pointing out everything that's "wrong" with your brother.

(i think it's also important to note that the story takes place approximately from 1999-2001, which means Toshiro is very firmly from the war generation. that almost certainly influenced his values and approach to life, from the sharp focus on education to how he expected "good etiquette" from his children. and i dunno—not to drag a far bigger can of worms into the mix, but i think there is something to be said about how horrific worldwide cruelty deflates into systematic national cruelty which trickles down into mundane societal cruelty that somehow becomes "just the way things are", which feeds nicely into the series' themes of generational trauma and how people come to normalize abuse.)

we don't know much about the Hondas' domestic life, but we do know this: Toshiro was unhappy with his kids and his kids were unhappy with their father. then the mother died and Toshiro lost what was probably his strongest connection to both of them. Katsuya and Toshiro didn't really get along until after Kyoko came into their lives, which was probably a good several years later. meanwhile, we don't know anything about Toshiro's relationship with his daughter, but clearly there isn't the same kind of bad blood between them as there was Katsuya and Toshiro.

and it's just. Katsuya's sister. his younger sister, the one who grew up beside him. a woman who married a faceless (but respectable) man, who has enough money to take vacations and hire private detectives and completely renovate houses, who looks down on Kyoko and can't stop judging her own brother's child for being raised by an ex-delinquent.

do you ever think about it? how the unnamed sister spent her formulative years in a house that was never at peace. her father was proud and stubborn, clearly not willing to deal with anything other than what HE thought was right. her mother likely tried to play peacekeeper, because that's often what the wife is reduced to in a fight between family members, and who knows what her relationships with her kids were like in the face of that. her brother started out as someone like Tohru, but slowly became a different person as their father's expectations pressured him into walling off entire parts of himself. she constantly heard her father talk derisively about Katsuya for being less than his ideal (maybe even to Katsuya's face). and she clearly comes from a high-status family who have no qualms with being assholes toward "unsavory" family members, if the flashbacks to Katsuya's funeral are anything to go by. every time she met with family—aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins, in-laws, what have you—she was reminded that you had to marry the right sort of person or you would be openly sneered at, receive no help or support, and be virtually disowned.

do you ever think about how she probably absorbed her father's ideas of an acceptable life because that's all she ever learned to value? how she took cues from her other family members and crafted a respectable persona that they would all approve of? that she possibly dotes on her family and supports her son's dream because she never got any of that love and acceptance for herself? her life is one of a stereotypical upper-middle-class suburban housewife, the kind who's obsessed with status and appearances to the point of becoming a shallow, cruel miniboss in a story about far worse cruelties and far less shallow motivations.

listen. listen. Tohru's aunt is an annoying person but also one that's easy to read. she felt "uneasy" around Kyoko. she wanted her son to succeed in life. she judged Tohru—a sweet girl who had literally never done anything of suspicion in her entire life—solely because of Tohru's parentage. she loved her father. she thought her father would support her in deriding the "distasteful" member of the family and she was wrong. she lost her mother at a young age. she refused to see Kyoko as worthy of respect. she thought Tohru was a delinquent like Kyoko who was shacking up with three strange men, but she still called to inform Tohru of Toshiro's illness and offered to go to the parent-teacher's conference with Tohru. her own father called her and her children "nasty by nature." she is a product of her childhood and also a deeply unpleasant person because she never chooses to extend compassion or kindness to others, much less any inklings of good faith.

and it all drives me a little nuts because Tohru's aunt is decidedly a minor character, and i don't think much thought was put into her characterization or backstory—she's the shitty judgmental family member who's there to be a roadblock for Tohru, and that's it. but the nuggets of information we get on Katsuya's past also creates a path for his sister's backstory, one that points to a quietly dysfunctional family, high pressure to be an acceptable member of society, and other unfortunate circumstances that led her aunt to becoming such a shallow, hardhearted person.

anyway. dysfunctional Honda family is very interesting.

#sorry about the toshiro thing but i simply can't organize a post while being forced to write “tohru's grandfather” every other sentence #toshiro is literally the first japanese name i could think of so it's not that deep or anything lol #anyway i just think it's fascinating reading between the lines #and seeing all the examples of malformed personalities and generational trauma even in the nameless bit characters #i do realize that i made some assumptions here but i think they're sound ones #there's a lot of crumbs and i'm baking a damn cake #fruits basket #tohru honda #tohru's grandfather #tohru's aunt #(ffs these people need names) #analysis #sage speaketh #edited for your convenience #(<-capitalized names and reworked a bunch of wording)

[sysig]

Just take things at your own pace, there’s no need to rush (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Dexter Favin #Mostly spacefillers but I like them <3 Continuation! #Following up on the Dex and ZEX kiss and then Dex runs away scenario lol - one of those rare times that Dex hopes he drops it #He's not dropping it! Time to talk about this! Goes about it too excitedly and overstimulates him poor thing <3 #Don't turn his head suddenly! Don't shout! Don't expect him to remember all at once! Goodness me #One step forward two steps back #The middle one lol I was thinking about tools that might help ZEX feel more comfortable engaging with the world around him #I was thinking he'd enjoy an iPad or similar device - though Helix was published before the first iPad came out! :0 Hmm hmm #But anyway - that he'd enjoy a touch screen and getting to use one with his hands :) Either playing tactical games or just looking up facts #Gets one of those 3D solar system model apps and zooms in and out - very distressed when it doesn't go farther than Pluto :( #I've also been thinking about ZEX's ability to read I keep going back and forth on it I can't decide ahhh #He loves humans but would he have studied English specifically?? It's pretty different from VUK ZIX #Does the Captain speak English? Have any of the human languages survived in the same form that we currently speak??? #But he's also incredibly intelligent and interested in humans - weeb equivalence of learning Japanese to read untranslated manga lol #I can't deciiiidee urrggghhh #The rest are age comparisons haha #Dexter was probably at least of legal employment age when he started working for the Vyers when Max was 16 if I remember right? #Unless Dex was one of those family-employment situations of like - when rich people have caretakers that are close to their child's age? #Is that still a thing lol hired playmates #And then ''At least 10 years younger'' might be a slightly high estimate lol but ZEX is definitely older than DAX #Odd to be put in such a young body! Oddly feels more out of shape than his VUX body (lol) #With how much he's gone through even without literally being older he's definitely ages years in such a short time #Especially to be younger than his DAX-equivalent that'd have to feel weird #Has difficulty saying ''me'' when referring to the body he's in :( #Just one more oddity of this human experience

[beevean]

Just to add to my earlier question from the other day:

Thinking about it I don't believe it's possible for Dracula to have been Wallachia's actual ruler. In LoI it's implied that Mathias was not originally from Romania but rather went there to go into hiding, so for him to become the ruler of even a smaller region like Wallachia he'd probably have to conquer it by force, which would be possible for him but would have attracted the attention of the Church which would be the opposite of "going into hiding".

Plus in the manga, during that one scene where a young Isaac goes to the Castle, he talks about Dracula like he's some sort of local legend which makes sense: if he were the ruler of the region then everyone would publicly know about him and the fact that he's a vampire which would have absolutely prompted some form of action either by the paranoid townsfolk or, again, the Church.

I think that line Isaac says about him having protected the land in the past, plus that one line from Dracula about humans "having betrayed him", was probably referring to the fact that Dracula often indirectly protected the land from invading armies most likely in order to defend his own turf which by proxy helped defend the entirety of Wallachia

This also makes sense. It feels like there is contraddicting proof for both, even ignoring CV3's original intentions.

I like the idea of Dracula being an indirect, selfish benefactor. A region protected by an evil being without the people even knowing, even if only for his own convenience. It fits with him apparently recruiting humans who feel rejected by the human world, but only as long as they're useful to him.

#castlevania #akumajou dracula #curse of darkness manga #dracula castlevania #btw that scene with isaac is written really poorly in japanese lol #i can't wait to read it in original

[larcenylupin]

once again looking through lesser-known manga, once again finding the thing, lupin thinking zenigata's dead

they have a big dumb shonen fight about it. whenever i look at the isekai i feel like this must be what some people see when they look at the koike designs

anyway that little girl snaps him out of it of course and when he sees him again he's just like haha phew like he didn't turn into a shadow demon a few chapters ago

#i can't read japanese but i can type it into deepl lol #lupin iii #lz

[birdmenmanga]

huh... but noe is feminine in japanese...? apparently...? am I alright with that...

#just thinking thoughts... #hmm... I'll just pick more masculine kanji...? #assuming the concepts of masculinity and femininity are close enough between chinese and japanese... #wild... river. #he isn't wild though. #<- SHUSHHH BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS ! #poetry is a nice word. I think it suits him #野江 sounds better though. LOL #reading the kanji in chinese I mean #野詠 this one isn't as nice... #well... I'll think about it.

[kuramirocket]

*watching Demon Slayer with mom*

*gets to the part where Nezuko grabs Tanjiro's hand, he smiles at her states they'll continue traveling together and won't be seperated*

*cue image of their family*

*Tanjiro states that never again would they be seperated*

Mom (with smile): Awww

Me: *grins*

Me: I told you they were cute! You can just imagine my agsibwksns when I read this in the manga

#xD #demon slayer #me forcing my poor mom to watch bt weaboo sht with me xD #but since crunchyroll got it in spanish then yeah she humored me (again) ahaishksksks #tanjiro ans nezuko have my whole heart and soul 😫 #I fell in deep and can't get out #send h e l p #I love them and their bond #I think I probably will pause on reading the manga until we've watched the whole anime then I'll finish reading the manga #and probably rewatch the anime but im japanese with english subs this time (watching it in spanish so mom can understand) lol #want to make a cute tribute to nezuko and tanjiro and overall kamado family @-@

[atypicalsouda]

"The fuck are you doing?"

"Oh, nothin~ just admiring you. As always."

He looks away, takes a drag. "Idiot."

Here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1721661

#fuyu💓 #sal #my self insert #He's so pretty I can't help myself #f/o stuff #yes I think Fuyu might smoke #not like a lot tho #I would have changed his hair to be more accurate but the picrew is no processing so #pretty cool picrew btw #I also would have loved to add a speech bubble but I still can't read japanese #without translating everything anyway #it's just the sounds atm if that makes sense lol #selfship #f/o community #using picrews to cope with not being an artist lol #picrew

[fma-facts]

Is there anyway to get a better translation of fma because I’m disappointed to hear the translation in the fullmetal edition aren’t that much improved. It sounds like the company the did the eternal editions of sailor moon did a better job with that translation fixing the issues with their original translation compared to the viz’s lackluster fullmetal edition re translations. Is this true? :(

I mean, even the original Viz translation is, imo, not a bad translation. There's some minor things here and there, sure, but mostly spelling stuff or the occasional typo. As far as actual translation goes, I've read some of it in Japanese, and I've never noticed any particular issues. I can't entirely speak for Fullmetal Edition since I only own uh... I think two of them? And I can't look at them right now since the books are at home and I'm at my dorm. But from what I recall, yeah, the changes were pretty minor.

To be totally honest, though, uh... When it comes to, ahem, alternative translations, like. The overall standard of quality for scanlations has gone up a LOT in the past decade, and you have to understand, FMA originally ran from 2001 to 2010. You'll be lucky if you can find something that's coherent, let alone doesn't randomly replace entire lines with unrelated quotes from Lord of the Rings. And I'm not saying this to disparage scanlations in any way- They're a lot of hard work done by dedicated fans, and I relied on them myself back when FMA was still being serialized. But if you're looking for something that's somehow better than the Viz translation, you're not going to find anything.

#Honestly after seeing what happened to the poor DMC3 manga I have no real qualms with the official English FMA lol #Like sure they picked possibly the worst possible spelling for Hohenheim's home country. But at least they got the gist of things right #Ofc the translation isn't 1-to-1 since it wouldn't flow well in English if it were #But I can't think of any examples of them just like. Making stuff up #Correct me if I'm wrong though I haven't read the whole thing in Japanese

[mayorofcattown]

nooo the manga park app no longer accepts payments from my region, I can’t look at the natsume raws anymore...........

cannot fathom why they would go out of their way to stop me from giving them my money. and on the natsume cosplays as reiko chapter no less..........

#yes I know I can just get a vp/n to get around this but I don't wanna have to pay for Another subscription just to access the magazine #that I'm Already paying for #like I already have to use an apk installer and wrangle google translate every time I use the app why add MORE issues #natsuyuu spoilers #I guess lol #I mean I can't even read japanese so I was mostly just downloading them to stare at the art. but STILL

[xbuster]

So I’m trying to compare two new subs for Star Twinkle that were recently uploaded to nyaa.si so I can replace my older, not very good subs. I’m trying to figure out the translation discrepancy here and I’m wondering if anyone can help. When Kappard introduces himself it sounds like Hikaru is saying “Kacchaii.” I’m not familiar with this phrase, but the translation “He’s cool!” makes me think of “kakkoii,” which sounds similar to kacchaii so I thought maybe it’s a pun or slang for kakkoii that I’m not understanding? The other possibility is I was thinking kacchaii is spelled 買っちゃいい. 買 means “buy,” so if kacchaii here means “something worth buying” I can understand “Can I keep him?” as a liberal translation of that. Any insight?

#star twinkle precure #precure #even if you can't help could you consider reblogging this so someone who's better at understanding japanese than me might see it? #i might just pick gelatin's (this first one) because it's easier to read lol #the second's font is smaller and so is the text border #i'd find it weird if hikaru wants to buy kappard though

[nerice]

good evening i am. angry but also don't have the wrist stamina to get into it

#elia txts #it just sucks!!!!!! that my job is Doing Nothing and waiting for my body to Heal #FOR ANOTHER 3 MONTHS AT LEAST #i must under no circumstances overdo it even when i start feeling better even in march #i should not write all night or draw a lot it will be so much Easing Back Into It and Not Fuck It All Up Again #but im sick and tired!!!!!!!! two full years pissed into the void #and i won't even be able to throw myself back into passions with my whole heart #like i cannot get over losing two actual years of my life i am so extremely antisocial abt it too #bc before this irl fri*ndshit was taking up so much of my time & i agonized over it and i just like #shouldn't have should've just dropped it then id have never gotten into g3nshin id have quit my job much earlier #i would have actually been able to enjoy japan. it fucking HAUNTS ME #ventpost lol dl but like #i fell behind. everything got away from me. & now i have to wait more and be gentle and patient w myself i wanna bite my own head off #GOD. release me from this hell #i want to draw so badly i don't wanna get 10 pathetic minutes a day at best #i wanna get an art spark and not put it in a box i want to be consumed again & pour hours into it fuelled by energy drink unafraid #reading books is all i can do at the moment but even that is miserable bc i don't have the typing ability for my vocab lists #i can't write notes and summaries even when things are interesting. i cannot look at japanese without crying bc i miss kanji #& believe in recovery now!! (on good days anyway) but this aching void of loss and grief and time wasted will it ever go away :(

[cephiius]

i rmbr that one shower thought post where "we know what time a watch has died" and now i am sad to buy cheap watches or clocks that might suddenly break :(

#lmao #i really want a watch tho that has either japanese or chinese numbers #instead of normal ones #bc i think #a. watches are fashionable #b. i need to know the time duh #c. i can flex that i can read them in both japanese and chinese lol #im slow in chinese numbers tho but yeah #but i can't FIND ANY

[sysig]

Me while rereading: You should kill him

Also:

They marriages hehe ♥

#Come closer Morinaga I hold no ill will towards you lol #It's playful ribbing :) Mostly :) Lol ♪ #So I may or may not have come into the ownership of the entire currently-released collection of KoiBo manga in Japanese lol #It's so nice to own ahhhh <3 <3 It's so strange to finally hold it! #Also can we talk about manga prices in Japanese vs English? I get the whole translation and publishers thing but like #581円 for one volume? That's like four dollars USD! We average $10 here! How'd that happen #I mean I still didn't pay even that much for them since they were secondhand hehe ♥ #But reading them physically is such a weird experience now haha - I've spent years reading them only digitally! #Previously there was like this continuous flow from one volume into the next - no physical delineation! No hard stops! #So now re-learning where the story beats are and how that affects the timbre of storytelling - it's interesting :0 #Seeing that it took three volumes - or two depending on how you count it lol - it took til the third volume anyhow #For them to start to get on the same page and actually communicate and then all the middle-amble (preamble in the middle lol) #It's interesting! It's not quite like reading it blind again - especially since I can't actually read the kanji yet lol #But it does change a bit of the feel :) I'm excited to start to be able to put events to volumes rather than chapters! :D #The little bits of English that dot around are always very charming of course haha ♪ #Since they got married in the US they put English on their wedding card! That's so cute! #That is an actual picture I took while reading haha ♪ #That's another thing - reading in person really lets me see the toning as intended and ahhhh it's so pretty <3 #The details really pop! That aspect is like reading blind again hehe #Happy :D #Koisuru Boukun