friendly ass reminder that kit kats are the supreme candy bar and no other candy bar can ever compare and that’s tea
Yo have you ever had japanese kitkats tho? they come is like six million bomb-ass flavors, like green tea, strawberry, BBQ, Pumpkin, Taro… I had the Caramel Pudding ones once and I’ve never really recovered.
fun fact kit kats are very popular with students in japan because ‘kit kat’ sounds like a phrase that means ‘to do well’ so it’s a major study for finals snack
Was just talking about this with friends!
“kitto katsu” is basically saying to your friend “Good luck!” so handing them a kit-kat bar is the gift equivalent of the same~
“It’s ya boy Guzma” is probably the smoothest translation of ore-sama I’ve ever seen (makes eyes at Hetalia and TTGL) but it’s also unfortunately hilarious wwwww
It’s for ore-sama? AWESOME!
Yeah, ore-sama is a bitch to translate because standard English just doesn’t use pronouns like that but “it’s ya boy” is actually a great way of conveying both the conceited “you should know me” and inappropriately close connotations. I think it’s kinda rare to see direct ways of translating how rough/friendly speech is kinda the same thing in Japanese. I mean, we DO have an understanding that being overly familiar is rude in English but I feel like I rarely see that aspect of ore speech translated gracefully.
I kept threatening to write a post about how gorgeous Ganondorf’s language is in the Japanese version of The Wind Waker, but I didn’t think anyone would be interested. In the end, though, I couldn’t stop myself.
My conclusion is that Ganondorf speaks in terse yet powerful sentences, and his rich vocabulary and slightly archaic grammar give his words a highly lyrical quality, which is localized into the rhetorical flights of fancy of the English version.
ahh thank you so much for writing this! it was wonderful to read. especially learning that the ‘fatherly’ nature of ganons relationship to link was intentional even in the original japanese
and i love how they were able to convey the sense of him being ‘out of time’ in a way they weren’t quite able to in the english translation
So I got Blue Exorcist 16 and I read the part in the back where fans write in to ask questions, and dear GOD this sentence, I am speechless, I cannot BELIEVE, how DARE
Anyway there is a truly amazing bit of Japanese grammar in there and I want to share it, but first I need to make sure everyone understands the phrase はずがない so…
～はずだ It’s probably~, I expect that~, it’s supposed to be~, as far as I know it’s~
はず is a noun that isn’t really used by itself–it’s a little grammar word that means something like “my expectations” or “the way I assume the world is.” If you say “It’s はず that (…) happens” that means “I’m PRETTY SURE that (…) happens.”
もうすぐ来るはずだ。 They should be coming soon.
そこにあるはずだ。 It should be there. (are you SURE you looked hard enough?)
やすいはずだ。 It should be cheap/ I would expect it to be cheap.
～はずがない There’s no way that ~, It can’t be~, there’s no reason to expect~, why would you even think that
If you negate はず by saying “there is no はず that (…) happens” it means you would never ever expect something like (…) to happen in this situation.
彼女は死んだ。ここにいるはずがない。 She’s dead. She shouldn’t be here./You can’t expect her to be here.
彼が仲間ををうらぎるはずがない。 There’s no way he’d ever betray a friend.
そんなはずが！ It can’t be! (I have never had that kind of expectation before! I am in such total disbelief at this completely unexpected thing that I can’t even finish my sentence by saying ない!)
…And off we go! This sentence is rated PG for suggestive content and R for TERRIFYING LENGTH:
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