Skosh is another word introduced into English by U.S. soldiers, though this time those soldiers learned the word while stationed in Japan after World War II had ended—our earliest evidence of it in use in English is from 1952. Our word skosh comes from Japanese sukoshi, which is pronounced \skoh-shee. Sukoshi is translated as "a tiny bit" or "a small amount," making our word skosh identical in meaning to its parent word. The English word, however, is also sometimes used adverbially with a, as in "I'm fine, just a skosh tired."
A lot of jokes just straight don't translate well so I don't envy most translation or localization jobs. In particular there's one infamous bit in Nichijou where they play a game that basically only works if you know Japanese, they tried their best but it just wouldn't ever work.
Or this clip https://youtu.be/nlLhw1mtCFA
In the dub they make the cat speak Spanish and it doesn't hit the same (also Osaka's original voice is so much better, I don't mind texan accent for osakan dialect but it changed her character's kinda deadpan delivery a lot)
In Aquarion Logos, the antagonist, an evil CEO who became a space wizard because he was pissed off about kids using slang on the internet, creates giant monsters by overclocking kanji, which the protagonists fight by jumping in space planes that combine into giant robots through orgasms so that they can use the radicals from their names to transmogify the overclocked evil kanji into something meaningful to them.
I should also mention that the CEO space wizard is being manipulated by an ancient illiterate ghost who asked a friend to read a love letter to him, but the friend lied because he had a crush on the girl too, so the ghost declared that he would take his revenge on the concept of literacy.
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I’ve never understood the reasoning to translate “pinch” as other things.
Like it’s an English loan word, surely we all understand what it means to be in a pinch? Is it just the fact that it’s fallen out of favor as a widely used colloquialism?
Speaking as someone who's not a professional translator or localizer, I'd theorize two reasons why: 1) "in a pinch" has a cute and/or low-stakes quality to it that means it's generally not used for more serious situations in English (related: it can be used as a way for a character to establish they're trivializing the danger they're in) 2) "pinch" spoken in Japanese is three syllables while in English it's one, so different words might need to be used to match to mouth flaps
That last one doesn't matter when you're talking about subs!
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Very much NOT in the best anime of the year discussion, but for some reason I started reading some of Onimai and I Have Thoughts. I assume the anime has pretty much the same stuff going on.
On the one hand it's a sorta trashy gender-bender / fanservicey comedy series, and like it very much tries to insist that that's all it is.
OTOH it's also like suuuuch a blatant trans wish fulfillment story that you kinda end up with the feeling that it's secretly a little more earnest than it's willing to admit.
Don't get me wrong it's still pretty trashy and I wouldn't recommend it, but the entire plotline is like, Oh hey our depressed shut in protagonist got turned into a girl and is suddenly a lot less depressed FOR SOME REASON and is quite obviously experiencing gender euphoria FOR SOME REASON and now feels much more comfortable interacting with other people in their new body FOR SOME REASON BUT REALLY WHO COULD SAY WHY THAT MIGHT BE??
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It's a crying shame that Castlevania's fantastic intro is only played with the pilot.
I really don't feel like I could talk about Onimai properly without saying something stupid, why I just said the first episode was good but wouldn't comment on it after that.
But yeah, the underlying theme of the show is very simply "Life would absolutely be better in every way if you were a cute little girl."
I find it funny how utterly insane "pinch" and other related words for trouble sound if taken literally instead of as a saying.
"I'm in a pinch, can you help?"
"Pinch?"
"Yeah, just need some help getting out of this jam."
"Wait where'd the jam come from I thought this was--"
"I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place."
"And the jam is...between the rock and hard place? What?"
"Look point is I'm in a bind."
"WHAT EVEN IS ENGLISH GODDAMN YOU."
English and its idioms:
Not even once
All languages are weird, English only slightly more so than average.
Besides, lots of words are basically shortened idioms and expressions anyway. Personally my favorite words are ones like 'okay' which was basically the 19th century equivalent of shitposting which through an inexplicable series of events became so popular its ironic origins were forgotten about. Basically stupid jokes or misunderstandings that entered the general lexicon.
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Chainsaw Man was easily my top series of 2022, no contest. I cannot wait for the rollercoaster ride that will be Season 2. Hopefully executive meddling doesn't mess up a masterpiece in the making.
Other stuff that was exceptionally good:
Dress Up Darling
Kaguya-sama season 3
Spy X Family
E: Mob Psycho 3. Missed it on the list I just checked.
There was also a bunch of other stuff I watched that was regular good, and a bunch of stuff I watched that ended up being mediocre, or terrible, or that I would never admit I watched what could you possibly be talking about.
Spy Fam wins for me because it's so, so easy to recommend to anyone, not just anime fans. My gf was a little distraught over the bomb dogs episode but it's a pretty wholesome affair otherwise and I don't feel guilty or hesitant to tell people to watch it. It's the reason why I like anime, it's heartfelt and funny but still has some level of stakes.
My favourite anime of 2022 is still Mob Psycho 100 S3, but it is not fair to any other anime released in 2022, because Mob Psycho 100 is overall the greatest anime I have ever watched in my entire life, and what else can compare to that?
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I would put Bocchi as the favorite thing I watched last year. Mainly because while the Chainsawman anime was great, I'd already read Chainsawman. I would have probably never read Bocchi without the anime.
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The sheer amount of Bocchi fanart and memes on /r manga was what convinced me to give Bocchi a try. That show had huge memetic osmosis.
y'all, is shangri-la colony just completely polluted with lead and mercury and that explains the rapid IQ loss across the board of the established characters? (I kid, I kid, but... maybe)
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Or this clip
In the dub they make the cat speak Spanish and it doesn't hit the same (also Osaka's original voice is so much better, I don't mind texan accent for osakan dialect but it changed her character's kinda deadpan delivery a lot)
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I should also mention that the CEO space wizard is being manipulated by an ancient illiterate ghost who asked a friend to read a love letter to him, but the friend lied because he had a crush on the girl too, so the ghost declared that he would take his revenge on the concept of literacy.
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And like, that plot summary sounds like pretty much what I would expect from a sequel
Dracula. Did. Nothing. Wrong.
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Dracula is angry
That last one doesn't matter when you're talking about subs!
Yeah but like, reasonably angry.
Unfortunately he still needed to die
On the one hand it's a sorta trashy gender-bender / fanservicey comedy series, and like it very much tries to insist that that's all it is.
OTOH it's also like suuuuch a blatant trans wish fulfillment story that you kinda end up with the feeling that it's secretly a little more earnest than it's willing to admit.
Don't get me wrong it's still pretty trashy and I wouldn't recommend it, but the entire plotline is like, Oh hey our depressed shut in protagonist got turned into a girl and is suddenly a lot less depressed FOR SOME REASON and is quite obviously experiencing gender euphoria FOR SOME REASON and now feels much more comfortable interacting with other people in their new body FOR SOME REASON BUT REALLY WHO COULD SAY WHY THAT MIGHT BE??
well he did put his son in a box for some reason
But yeah, the underlying theme of the show is very simply "Life would absolutely be better in every way if you were a cute little girl."
It packs so much punch into such a small amount of time
All languages are weird, English only slightly more so than average.
Besides, lots of words are basically shortened idioms and expressions anyway. Personally my favorite words are ones like 'okay' which was basically the 19th century equivalent of shitposting which through an inexplicable series of events became so popular its ironic origins were forgotten about. Basically stupid jokes or misunderstandings that entered the general lexicon.
Having recently binged that series to the end:
Other stuff that was exceptionally good:
Dress Up Darling
Kaguya-sama season 3
Spy X Family
E: Mob Psycho 3. Missed it on the list I just checked.
There was also a bunch of other stuff I watched that was regular good, and a bunch of stuff I watched that ended up being mediocre, or terrible, or that I would never admit I watched what could you possibly be talking about.
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Man you're gonna have to keep us updated on this watch through.
Spy Family
Summer Time Rendering
Chainsaw Man
Mob Psycho
Probably make up the entire list of the ones I actually really liked.
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y'all, is shangri-la colony just completely polluted with lead and mercury and that explains the rapid IQ loss across the board of the established characters? (I kid, I kid, but... maybe)
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