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ooh it's been a while since I last thought about this subject, lemme see if I can dredge the explanation up from the depths of my own bell-pepper head. so, bell peppers are hollow, and in japanese (though I don't know if this is old slang that you wouldn't hear anymore or something that's still said) you can effectively call someone empty-headed by comparing them to a bell pepper. in snx this seems to have been elevated to something like a slur against people without any psychic affinity and then reclaimed by them

it's worth noting that the japanese word for "bell pepper" is ピーマン/piiman, but they instead use the english word "bell pepper" in snx. I assume this was done because the english word "bell pepper" would be less likely to bring the vegetable to mind for the japanese audience, hence sounding less silly. yuito I think even has a line about it - "bell peppers (eng)? as in, piiman (jp)?" - to make sure the audience knows what the word is even if they're not familiar with it. the english audience, of course, would have no problem recognizing "bell pepper," would always think of the vegetable, and would find it really silly to hear it all the time, so they chose to localize it to something similarly vaguely insulting and implicit of undesirable properties: dud

day 19 - translation aside, I have a handful of gripes about scarlet nexus’s localization choices. first of all is changing out bell peppers for “dud.” I know why they did it, I know it’s not the same experience hearing the english word “bell pepper” as an english-speaker vs. hearing it as a japanese-speaker, but still. second is how they changed kasane’s surprisingly childish “mama” to the formal and detached “mother.” and third is that they took the head of the historic sumeragi family, descendant of yakumo, husband of wakana, and father of yuito and kaito, and romanized his name to JOE.

#whether or not this was the best choice they could have made is........ debatable! #I for sure do not envy the localizers who were charged with that duty #personally I would have just kept bell peppers I think. the silliness would wear off eventually. #and it would have led to fewer people playing the game subtitled and being really confused to clearly hear 'bell peppers' in the jp audio #saydonym

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this isn't relevant to anything but every now and then it comes to mind: Mephisto's title as one of the 13 crowns. when he was first introduced during the deviculum, he was called the Gamesman. the next time he appeared at Siren Island, he was called the Mindgames King. two different translators, two very different translations. why so?

in the raws, he's called 盤外王 - or Off-Board King, to take it strictly literally. "board" in this context refers to a game board like for chess or shogi. "off-board" can mean in the literal sense, i.e. the place where game pieces are put when they're captured and removed from the board, but from what I've read, I get the impression it's more often a figure of speech. 盤外戦術, or "off-board tactics," refers to acts of psychological warfare: things a player might say or do before and during a game to get into their opponent's head and influence the outcome.

so I would think, then, that Mephisto's title suggests that he's very good at subtly manipulating whatever events he's a part of, likely by acting on elements outside of those events. dunno what the cleanest, easiest-to-understand way to translate that, but it's something interesting to think about wrt him declaring himself Iruma's ally.

#there is no station for this train of thought. it does not end anywhere any more enlightening than where it started. #posting it anyway because it's the only way to make it leave my head though #you can look at the date of the siren island chapters and imagine just how long it's been rattling around up there #saydonym #mairimashita! iruma kun

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NHK, a sponsor of the paralympics, has been broadcasting 5-minute shorts made in collaboration with various anime series. episode 18 imagines goalball, a sport for the visually impaired, in the universe of mairmashita! iruma-kun. I'm absolutely starving for content so I translated it to the best of my ability

(disclaimer: I'm weak at spoken japanese and the original video had no jp subtitles provided, so I don't promise perfect accuracy. that said, I don't think I made any huge errors, so it should be a "good enough"-level translation)

if you want to see the original video, read related interviews with nishi and with iruma and clara's voice actors, or look at any of the other shorts, you can do so on the official site (linked in source)

#feel free to repost anywhere if desired #I don't care about credit #mairimashita! iruma kun

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idk how many people that follow me are reading my current wip but if you happen to be one of them, could I maybeee ask for suggestions for scenes/aspects that you might want to see visuals for? I've been thinking I wanna draw something again but there's nothing in particular sticking out to me atm

#anything from any chapter's fine #I can make no promise that I'll actually do anything though. due to me being the way that I am against my own will. #saydonym

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big ol eyes

#drew the sidebangs too long but by the time I realized it was too late to fix them 😔 #I also forgot that she has light pupils instead of dark ones but fortunately that was a simple fix #own artwork #mairimashita! iruma kun

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so by now everyone knows the returned-to-origin eyes: the sort of winged emblem that forms around the pupils of demons who give in to their evil cycles/wicked phases/insert your preferred translation choice here. we've seen them on atori during the heartbreaker,

on kiriwo during the deviculum (and possibly other instances, this is just the one I remember clearly enough to go straight to it),

and, interestingly, on gyari during the idol games.

however there's also another style of eyes we see occasionally, and given the shape it may just be a pre-RTO thing (takes the < > that constitutes the main wing shape) but given the contexts we see it happen in, so far it seems more like a giving-into-the-thrill-of-desire thing than a giving-into-an-evil-cycle thing. we've seen it just recently on silvia during the meeting with zeze's brother, when his talk about creating gets her fired up,

on sabro during his evil cycle-influenced fight with atori, as he starts to find real joy in the act of savagely inflicting pain,

and, my favorite example, on opera during the second-year re-summoning fiasco, when it becomes apparent that kalego is going to make it as much of a challenge as possible.

it does seem most likely that it's a on-the-very-cusp-of-RTO type thing, but I dunno. the fact that gyari has complete RTO eyes just for a moment but seems to be back to normal later and sabro has partial RTO eyes despite being in an actual evil cycle make it kinda hard to tell exactly what's going on. also the implication that tormenting kalego is so much fun that opera would literally return to origins for it is just hilarious to me

#was reminded of this because of today's chapter #long post #or more like image-heavy post I guess. which makes it long. so yeah long post #saydonym #mairimashita! iruma kun

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stop me if I'm just stating the obvious here but dumb pointless theory: clara and urara are twins

little toddler clara used to play by dressing up as a monster and "was defeated when her brothers were born," a statement accompanied by a photo of her playing with little konchie and keebow. urara, called the eldest son, must have been born before those two, but if he was born after clara then wouldn't he have been the one to "defeat" paper bag monster clargon? (unless he had his no-nonsense attitude even as a baby, I guess)

the valac siblings have matching names. konchie and keebow both have the leading K, sin sin and ran ran both have repetition, and then there's clara, or rather kurara, and urara. of course this assumes that konchie and keebow/sin sin and ran ran are also twins, but like, I don't think that's a wild statement. sin sin and ran ran are babies, so if they were different ages it would probably be at least somewhat apparent. same for konchie and keebow, who were both babies in that photograph

urara seems to be the only other one of the valac siblings who's attending school. considering clara had just started her first year when the story began and urara calls her his big sister (as he would if she's the older twin), if he was also enrolled in school at the same time as clara, would that not effectively mean that they're the same age? and visually they do appear to be very close in age, although we only get to see urara clearly once

not that this would really change anything even if it were true

#interesting to me also that at the entrance ceremony in ep1 clara calls all her siblings by name except urara whom she calls uu-chan #but that's not in the manga and even in the anime it's a one-time thing so idk if there's anything to be extrapolated from that #anyway as you can see it's not for no reason that I called this a pointless theory. thanks for reading no you can't have your time back #saydonym #mairimashita! iruma kun

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what if I used this site as an actual blogging platform instead of only posting when I've drawn something that I think someone might think is neat

#I only posted about ososan for so long that now I'm super conscious of being annoying to the people who followed me for ososan #even though this is the ''I have a new hyperfixation and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem'' website #but I have so many dumb thoughts about mairuma I need to exorcise from my head.... #saydonym

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more beem forever please and thank you

#got sidetracked from what I was planning to do with this picture but that's all right #maybe I'll draw the image I had in mind once we're given beem's color scheme #'cause we'll definitely see a beem color page by the end of the arc...... right? #mairimashita! iruma kun #own artwork

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I got a plushie

#normally I wouldn't go to the trouble of coloring something like this but how else do I express how small and perfect the plush is #mairimashita! iruma kun #own artwork

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a character (and a story) that makes you want to draw

#beem's great A++ character design #makes me wish I'd kept to my december plans and spent the month practicing anatomy so I coulda drawn them better #own artwork #mairimashita! iruma kun

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been a while since the last time I drew yuito but I couldn't miss my son's birthday

#I kind of want to do it again for a third time next year just to try to come up with a better composition #I wasn't really satisfied with this right from the start but I didn't have time to linger in the thumbnail stage for too long #anyway happy new year or something. it's a great year to play scarlet nexus btw. just so you know. #scarlet nexus #own artwork

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every year people start posting their art summaries and I look at them and go "aw man, I wish I drew at least one thing every month this year." well thanks to the snx birthday portraits carrying me through the first six months and sunk cost fallacy pushing me through the second, this year I actually did it

up until last month I basically just drew randomly without putting any real thought into any part of it, but next year it'd be nice to make more of an effort to improve. we'll see how that goes, though. you know how motivation be

#own artwork #wound up with my fixations neatly divided into two six-month periods

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I wanted to draw a red and blue color scheme. so here we are.

#I'm slowly evolving from a person who's not happy with my art #to a person who's not happy with my art and is also willing to do something about it #at this point there's still the chance that someone might press B though so we'll see if anything actually comes of it #mairimashita! iruma kun #own artwork

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watched a video about color and tried to do something with it

#I hate practicing so the only way I can trick myself into practicing is by drawing my friend's fav #as a result I'm on the verge of having drawn balam more than I've drawn my own fav #mairimashita! iruma kun #own artwork

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I finally reached the part of the story where this comes into play, so I can finally post this design I spent actual months considering and reconsidering and designing and redesigning. in the end I simplified a couple of origami models I folded from videos on youtube, one for the hand and a different one for the forearm. I never want to have to design a prosthesis ever again.

#sadly the physical origami model isn't that great as a drawing reference #oh wait... maybe if I glued some wire to it so it could hold a pose... hmmmm..... #mairimashita! iruma kun #own artwork

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tumblr didn't let my art appear in the tag 😔 tragic

#and confusing. but mostly just mildly disappointing #saydonym