grownupgita

[grownupgita]

Go! Green Eyes Spandex Suit Guy!

For more than a year now, my... hobby? Obsession? Creepy fixation? ... has been watching bits of basically every Japanese AI:TSF Let's Play on YouTube. If pressed, I'd claim it's language practice -- leave it to streamers and VTubers to challenge in both speed of speech and use of slang! -- but the truth is that I just want to hear everyone everywhere as they experience the parts of the game I care about.

One of these parts is Pewter's introduction. I enjoy hearing Japanese fans react to the... umm... obvious scientific genius evident in his choice of clothing.

(To my surprise, I discovered that I didn't know the word for "collar" before I started watching these videos, but I sure picked it up quickly. "Whoa, look at that eri!" "LOL how does he get his eri to stand up like that?" "Is he a bad guy? I can't imagine a good person having an eri like that...")

(The bit with Boss's triangle ruler at the end of AINI is a good example of the moments that keep me from wanting to completely write that game off, but that's a tumble for another time.)

I love hearing the similarities and differences in the ways gamers around the world choose to describe his overall look, too. Understandably, comparisons to Pokemon gym leaders are as common in Japanese as in English-language fandom -- a recent VTuber I was watching was immediately like "Welp, it sure is Kozaki Yuusuke doing the designs..." -- but I've also heard multiple references to sentai (usually sentai villains), and more than one person has brought up Cyclops from the X-Men (Once, a player mused "what's that guy's name who has a visor kinda like that? A beam shoots out from it... umm..." literally moments before Pewter gives the "The second Cyclops killer" namedrop)...

... buuuuuuut my favorite comparison is and always will be when a player almost immediately dubbed him "Green Kaiba."

I'm not even a Yu-Gi-Oh fan and only ever watched the Abridged series a million years ago, but I died the first time I heard it, died even more when I did further research into the variety of looks Seto Kaiba has worn throughout the series' long, long history, and now... now I don't care where his AINI profile claims he gets his clothes; I firmly believe he shops at Kaiba Mart.

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