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You mentioned a few times that Saint Tail has a lot of metaphors, what do you mean by that? Can you give examples?

The most important one is probably the story of the flower and snow that Asuka Jr. tells Meimi in chapter 15 (episode 23). This is especially important for the manga, which makes careful use of the placement of flowers and snow in certain panels, especially in the final chapter.

Personally, I and the rest of the team felt that understanding the meaning behind "the only flower that was willing to offer the snow its color" and "the snow protecting the flower during the winter" made it much easier to figure out the deeper narrative about Meimi and Asuka Jr.'s thoughts and feelings, since everything came naturally from there. In particular, since Asuka Jr. is not very good at putting his feelings into clear words, the way the manga used the flower/snow imagery was helpful in establishing what his deeper feelings were behind his words, which thus made it easier to ensure that our translation of his lines would be consistent with them. If you didn't notice it the first time, I definitely recommend going through it again and paying attention to how the flower/snow imagery is used, especially in chapters 13-24 and extra chapters 1-2; there is, in a sense, a whole extra underlying narrative that comes out of it.

Besides that, each one of St. Tail's heists featured in a given chapter has some kind of thematic parallel or connection to Meimi and Asuka Jr.'s feelings for each other (for example, chapter 20 even uses visual framing to signal whom Mana and Hiromi are supposed to represent). The anime generally falls under the same principle, so you have things like the parallel between Asuka Jr.'s attitude about how the Tree of Happiness is treated in episode 35 and his description of St. Tail as an "ideal" in episode 39.

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umika + tsuksa

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Hamabe Minami as Midorikawa Ruriko SHIN KAMEN RIDER (シン・仮面ライダー) 2023, dir. Anno Hideaki.

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too tired to put tags on reblogs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Happy 45th birthday to Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter! ❤️🎂🌹

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Silphymon rkgk screenshot redraw from the 20th Anniversary Memorial Stories Project.

Was tring to experiment a few things while hyping over the fact that THE BEGINNING is just around the corner over here aidfjospabvghdifxagndjfoa dissapointed that cinemas near me only have it dubbed and I wanted to watch it subbed first ;w;

Reference below~

ikemen jogress~

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Codename: Sailor V (1991) by Naoko Takeuchi

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the glowing man has a digimon partner now

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セトモンらくがきズ

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Hello.

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#BEST GOKAI EVER #gokaiger

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#kamen rider fourze

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#kamen rider zi o

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Man, the fact people think you can’t dislike/like things a fandom like/dislike so hard drains my energy enough to make me wish to exclude myself totally from social interaction on social media.

Can’t we PLEASE accept people will like what you don’t like, and people will don’t like what you like? Also being hyped for something the others don’t is not wrong? And no one is trying to make you feel bad for that?

I apologize for my commentary, but no. This is why i’m always inactive here.

Actually this is mostly about more than one series/franchise, feel free to guess which ones i’m talking about.

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Hope that helps!