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considering how oblivious she was of Himmel, this is not only entirely within character but also forgivable
I am trying to figure out if I missed a very specific subtextual joke in the subbed anime I watched, or if the dub I am now watching just didn't do a good job on translating something
Here is my question: in ODDTAXI, in the original Japanese... are Yano's raps supposed to be good, or is the joke he is bad at rapping
Because the raps in the dub are kind of markedly badly written, and it has me questioning if I missed this entire joke in ODDTAXI when I watched it subbed
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It might help to have some clips to compare, but from what I recall, he sounded like he was genuinely good in Japanese.
yeah, it's charms are in the super-power non-battle manga. at most maybe one fight with the dad dragon for anime adaptation sakuga, but even that isn't necessary and honestly typing it out would be derivative of Maid Dragon, which this should deffo be a different thing. i think just coming of age with wonder is a thing that needs to be an SJ title, i hope it continues long enough to get that anime version.
Honestly, its an evergreen comment from us at this point...
Jesus Christ, what a fail-son...
Yeah having watched the dub, I thought the joke was that after so many episodes of Yano being hyped up to high heaven, he turns out to be a huge cringelord.
Plot summary -- man likes a woman, she (initially) doesn't know it -- they work in the product development department at the same place, the twist being it's a company that designs and makes condoms. So, yeah, it's NSFW, but until very recently it's only been 'suggestive' at most. (but the last few chapters have more actual nudity, to be fair; I'm up to chapter 72 as I write this, I don't know which direction it'll go from here)
Other than that (and "we work at a condom company" is definitely a significant part of the worldbuilding, but it's not as lurid/dumb as it sounds like it might be) it's just a really refreshingly positive take on "will they won't they". Earlier on, the woman asks a friend for advice and the friend, like the audience, thinks:
(caveat: it's monthly, and the plot as I type this is, if not strictly speaking at a cliff-hanger, definitely at a point where it feels like Something Will Happen any moment now so you might want to wait a bit before starting; I went through the entire thing in a day and am now stuck waiting for the next chapter)
(edit: chapter 73 just showed up and is very definitely NSFW at this point)
My low key bet is what drama there is going to involve meeting other half-myths and finding out about their own unique challenges and issues they've faced, and set those up as foils to Ruri's experiences.
The fact there's a classmate who's been persistently absent also seems significant, I'm betting they're another half-something like Ruri is (the teacher is way too blaise about Ruri for this to be the first time)
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Godai is a walking clusterfuck. He allows the other characters to bully him constantly, he's afraid of failure (thereby making bad decisions), and thinks the world is always against him (when he just needs to DO SOMETHING). The dude is a massive frustration.
Combine that with everyone in the world's inability to communicate and stories getting misconstrued, and you have a recipe for disaster. To be fair though, Kyoko isn't perfect either.
She's quick to anger, refuses to let go of the past, doesn't say what she wants, and blames others for her shortcomings.
The thing that I love about the story is how time actually passes in the story and our two main characters evolve and change over time. Sure, it's a slow burn with lots of frustrations, but in the end, they both figure themselves out. Which is something I don't see enough of in the things I read.
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I think ostensibly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Unions exist for the benefit of their members, anything progressive that they might do after that is nice, but not something that should really be expected. Hell, there's a fair chunk of times where unions don't even manage to work for the benefit of all their members. I think there was a healthcare negotiation mentioned in here a while ago where the healthcare worker group doing the negotiations (nurses? dunno) hooked themselves up nicely, the other workers, not so much. Unions are just organizations made up of people, same as management.
No, I don't think ostensibly is doing that much lifting. The ostensibly is SPECIFICALLY acknowledging that there are sometimes failures, because as you mentioned, people, but by and large unions work for the betterment of their members and get things done (especially in the current era of resurgence)
They don't really look out for members, they don't collectively bargain for members, you don't have to be actively employed to be a member. They're not pro-labour, they're pro-legal-industry. Their primary motivating factor is to ensure the legal industry in my jurisdiction remains reputable and professional. If they were pro-labour they wouldn't have (in my jurisdiction) specifically exempted their own students (articling students) from employment standard protections (which is why you can be paid less than minimum wage, and work inhumane hours as an articling student). They collect dues to run the administrative processes which are usually things like the overhead to ensure that people are properly licensed, that licensees run through the required and appropriate continuing-education each year, and they also adjudicate suspensions/ejections, etc.
Villainess Level 99 is a hoot:
But her explanation about how she was able cut Sense's doppelganger (the only thing she can't visualize cutting is defensive magic), coupled with her introduction (Kraft saving the bandits from being slaughtered by her after he found another set of bandits cut to pieces), makes me think she might be a bit of a psychopath, which presents an interesting contrast to how she copies magic from other mages.
Just a fascinating character all around.
Also I found a Frieren fan artist on twitter that does adorable 4-koma that's worth checking out: (twitter doesn't embed anymore, right?)
The characters pretty much have names that give their deal away - it's just that it's all in German, so it doesn't come across as revealing. And it's not the first show to pull this particular dodge (looking at you, G Gundam, with "Schwarz Bruder" - might as well spell the plot point out there.)
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Ubel is someone who believes that apple can fall up. Or sideways. Or not fall at all. It's an alien mindset that is difficult to grasp since truth is whatever she perceives it to be and her power follows from that. It makes for a broken human being but a potentially ludicrously-overpowered mage.
On a different note, I do kind of wonder how Frieren would have tackled that whole making the guy step back test. ...and if she'd just do something like "did you know there's a spell for making people dance?" or just use brute force.
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Betterment of their members and “betterment of labor in general” are two very different things.
Very few unions are structured after the IWW.
And? This seems like you are trying to make a distinction just to pick a fight? Almost every union and union member I am aware of will always advocate for labor over capital and that people should have union protections and the benefits thus derived.
Though them going Magical Mr. And Mrs. Smith does work quite well.
And the outfits - they do clean up well.
I also like that the guards are Actually Competent, which adds some genuine stakes.
Speaking of Actually Competent, our favorite elf mage has a body count of those who underestimated her.
People are disagreeing with this comment you made:
Unions are there to support their members, and may decide that the best way to do that is solidarity with all labor, but I don’t think that’s a given as a goal and is definitely not true in practice.
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Just look at how unions will support tariffs and the like because it benefits their own industry. Even though it's at the expense of everyone else.
Roger Rabbit Universe where a gag manga character enters the Olympics.
So, let's have fun with this by really overthinking it!
The first thing to consider is that the film is set pre-anime (though not terribly so - the movie takes place in 1947, while Alakazam The Great - the first animated adaptation of a Tezuka work - is from 1960.) Prior to Tezuka, Japanese animation more closely followed Western trends (and again, Tezuka did derive his own style from Western sources just as much as Eastern ones) - animation history YouTuber Kaiserbeamz has a good video on pre-war influences on Japanese animation, in particular Betty Boop (who, as you may recall, was a minor side character in the film.) And speaking of Tezuka, he had an interesting view of his characters as actors - the "star system", as he called it - that would slot in perfectly with the world building of the film as well.
In short, why wouldn't there be "anime" in the setting? Extrapolating from the film's concept, it's not hard to believe that there was an enclave similar to ToonTown (which, remember, has physical presence - that's a key plot point driving the film), but said enclave was likely damaged severely or outright destroyed in the fallout of WWII. So you see rebuilding by Japanese animated citizens, but the fallout of the war leaves a wedge between them and their Western brethren, which results in a divergence and separate evolution in terms of their culture.
Unions are still part of a capitalist system and mindset.