#WHY AM I NOT JAPANESE AGAIN

[james-stark-the-writer]

less than 4 minutes into Pom Poko and, i don't get Isao Takahata, he refuses to draw nipples on characters or characters without mouth muscles but he'll draw balls on raccoons, i don't get it. i don't get it, what the fuck are this man's priorities.

#james talks #james watches stuff #pom poko #studio ghibli #isao takahata #when i say he here i obviously don't mean him literally i know there are other people drawing it but obviously he has final say over stuff— #bc he's the director #anyway hopefully there's no people in this so i don't have to see his ugly human designs again #but anyway the movie is fun so far #finding subs for this that matched was a nightmare #the inbuilt subs said the raccoons lived in the 'woods' but in the actual Japanese dialogue they clearly said 'mountain' #& it took far too much fiddling and looking to find something that matched and actually had all the subs (including text) instead of just— #the dialogue and stuff. and even in this the translations of certain lines changes a lot (like saying the racoons always lived near a farm) #so i am forced to watch with 2 subtitles at the same time and draw a conclusion on each line of dialogue to see what the actual line is #so if i miss something that's my bad but like subtitlers should simply agree on what's being said. #this is kinda why i'm a big proponent of direct translation with explanations in brackets for cultural contexts

[dirt-str1der]

I still get scared when i remember kiryu is canonically quite lean and not a fatty at all

#Yakuza loveblog #i really think hes a little tubby and a little shorter #stop making japanese characters taller than 180 .... #you can pick one guy in your series to make that height but not more than tao #two #like there should be a ratio of guys over that height to guys who are normal (160-175 range) #and i say this a lot but i like the idea of kiryu simply being a guy who can dominate the room by presence alone #like he shouldnt be a huge guy he should be above average but being six feet is literally (thinks of a social justice buzzword) whitewashing #fucking haruka is taller than me thats not why im mad i just think that nobody looks at the average height of a country before making their #characters. wait im going to boot up y5 again and see harukas height in comparison to the rest of the people because kiryus always like a #head taller than everyone and while its funny to see him towering over date i think its wrong for him to do that #if anyone tries to argue with me im going to your house and killing myself #sorry i dont feel that strongly about this actually wait i am trying to downplay it im freaking out right now #okay between then and now im okay now but it still makes me so sad

[inkats]

year end skebook dump 👍

#oh the learn by listening methob scary again.... #the white men are back on my recommended why are they all so intense. #i just want to watch bl dramas one ep a day? want to watch the children go on errands? #watch midorikawa yuus youtube bc i like boy bands being silly? let me be. what is this... i am here for a good time. #and i wanna make friends eventually. i have no clue why you are learning japanese white men. you upset me <isolation scary. #anyway. white pen by uni ball insane. i love love fountain pens. i really like watercolors. im having fun!! #^realizing his good mood might be. because his period coming. and is trying so hard to be as positive as possible so maybe it will follw th #traditional art #hello yes see i draw #my ocs #artists on tumblr #drawing #traditional doodle #doodles #sketchbook #sketches #mon carnet de croquis! très bon! pour moi :)

[hockeyisforthegays]

if it weren't for the language difference (and the fact that i've now left it longenough that i think yuuji "noticing" it at this point would be weird) i would absolutely do something in heroine with the fact that teen!gojo uses ore and adult!gojo uses boku. because that's something that drives me crazy about him

#from what i know its pretty common in japan actually that like schoolboys go through an ore phase. so idk why it matters w gojo in particu #lar except IT DOES. OF COURSE IT DOES #BECAUSE #because if you're listening to the og japanese its suguru tells him to cut the shit and use boku or watashi instead of ore #(translated into “i've been thinking you should be less arrogant” in english #the implications lost. if youre following the japanese that moment is like ooh.... he DID stop using ore.....) #anyway gojo seems to have already switched by the time he's ~19 because he uses boku in his flashback with baby megumi #do i pay too much attention? yes. im also thinking about gojo tattoo theory again #i am gonna go trawl everymangagojo to see if i can get any more than my current 1 frame of evidence for gojo tattoo theory

[questing-wulfstan]

I am just out of experiencing Dir En Grey at the Bataclan, and I am delighted to report that after 3 odd years of fasting from Visual Kei in favor of a taste of the European metal scene, I have once again fallen in love with a 45 years old Japanese man in shorts. With gorgeous thighs. I got to see both of them for a split second during the final salute. I am home.

#dir en grey #toshiya #just in case it wasn't clear who was the 45 years old Japanese man in shorts #(he also wears a gorgeous embroidered white dress split on his left) #(hence why both thighs weren't visible for the majority of the gig) #I can't express the exhilaration I am rolling in the afterglow of #it was NOT a phase mom #it was never a phase #AND I AM SEEING THEM AGAIN TOMORROW BECAUSE THESE WONDERFUL CREATURES ARE PLAYING TWO DIFFERENT CONCERTS IN THE SAME TOUR #MY HEART MIGHT JUST BURST

[goldensunset]

i cannot stand those quirky overly-friendly-to-the-point-of-crossing-boundaries teachers and professors who make you do icebreakers or fun facts about yourself at the beginning of the semester bc their questions are always the exact sort of stuff that you never wanna answer. but they just keep asking bc they think you’re just being shy and cute. ‘what are your hobbies? what kind of music do you like? what’s a topic very personal and important to you?’ MAN i am not subjecting myself to public humiliation like that for being very far removed from the norm nor am i opening up about my deep-seated personal problems. i don’t know you i don’t respect you you are not entitled to anything outside of my graded work. i’m just trying to prevent everybody in the room including you and i from becoming incredibly uncomfortable. just take the hint when i deflect your questions and pretend to be boring

#my sociology professor was asking us all for our current favorite song to add to the class playlist that he plays a bit from every morning #even if i had a single favorite song i wouldn’t tell him #even if he wasn’t gonna play it in front of others i wouldn’t tell him #he was like ‘ahhh what a diverse and fascinating sample of different genres we’ve collected here from your responses!’ #three taylor swift songs. some respectable rock and rap stuff. basically it #i am not about to submit my japanese robots singing about the most unhinged and frightening topics known to man #some of us actually got bullied as children and learned to never be honest ever again especially not when we don’t have friends with us #i could explain to him why i like the things i like #but i’m not about to be that vulnerable?? hello???? i already know he wouldn’t understand or care even if he didn’t say anything mean #ok hot take but i actually kinda don’t like the discourse surrounding infodumping #like ‘it’s ok to just talk at me about the things you like! :)’ ok but if i don’t have clear confirmation that you like it too #then it feels like you’re just listening to me out of pity #you could be as nice as possible but if you don’t ask followup questions or express any sort of favorite part or interesting detail #i will feel awful and be like ok never doing that again #maybe that’s just my personal flavor of mental illness #i never got like. told to shut up or anything when talking #but i did get the awkward silence or ‘light-hearted’ mockery #so i figured shutting myself up was for the best #peach rambles

[heloflor]

It just hit me that we're getting a game where the main protagonist is called "Peach" and the main antagonist is called "Grape".

Is...is that why Nintendo called her that ? Because fruit ?

(Granted it probably sounds better in Japanese if that's her name there as well)

#Super Mario #Nintendo Direct #Princess Peach Showtime #Flor talks #I mean 'grape' definitely isn't the kind of name I was expecting out of a villain #but then again with that logic 'peach' isn't that smart of a name either; we just got used to this being her name #(btw I'm not english so have no issue having a character named 'Peach'; but if her name was 'Pêche' it would weird me the f out) #(all this to say the name 'Grape' actually doesn't sound bad to me; but I can understand why english-speaking people are weirded out by it #hence also mentioning how Japanese people won't find it strange if it's the same name overseas) #(my only issue with it is that it doesn't sound like a villain name) #also unrelated but I AM SO EXCITED FOR THAT GAME HOLY SHIT !!!!! #and again I am so SO glad Nintendo is keeping Peach's actual personality instead of whatever the movie was trying to do with her #like I love small details such as her cowering a bit when Stella goes on her hair; like yes Peach is going to save people #but she's still being herself doing so

[sunlightfeeling]

more of a psa on the blog but I’m going to try to post more solo shoots of the other SMAP members. Because I have a lot of pretty shoots and I just want to ☺️

I know some of you are probably here mainly for the Takuya things, but please enjoy the other shoots that get posted. All of the SMAP members are really lovely…

#I know these are also not going to get as much ‘support’ like how smap ones sometimes go but thats okay #it’s not about that #tbh i think the THING that upsets me the most is that on occasion a post breaks containment for a bit #but only because a specific person reblogged it at THAT specific moment #and i see the notes and im like… #‘my home is wide open…do you want more of this because i have loads more??’ #i feel like a nan that wants to make sure everyone is well-fed even though they JUST got a heaping portion of food #…didn’t really mean to ramble about that… #nor am i trying to guilt-trip anyone into reblogging because again its not about THAT #i just wish more people visited people’s pages if they see a post they like #(talking about tags like ‘omg i love kimutaku’ and i just kind of have this face 😗 waiting for them to show up and then 📭 nada) #or the ones that only reblog that ‘howl japanese va’ post that has a bajillion notes but there’s like…an entire ocean of pictures of him? #why are you only reblogging one? #how do you have such self-restraint? #teach me your ways #actually don’t #i like being insane about old men #*loud incorrect buzzer* #OMG IM STILL WRITING TAGS WHAT THE FU #ramblin but not a gamblin man

[layzeal]

wait i’ve talked about the cql japanese ending a few times, but have you guys actually seen it?

#the untamed #THIS IS FROM MONTHS AGO BTW DSKLFJSJKDFH I JUST FORGOT TO SHARE IT #again. same scenes just different order #iirc this is how the ending is in the japanese blu-ray version #yes i re-edited it myself cause the original video was in like 460p #I JUST LOVE THE WATERFALL SCENE BEING THEIR FINAL SCENE 😭🥺 #my gf: why have we had like 4 different endings? why am i crying at all fo them? #modao #cql #lace speaks

[skalidris]

i read a book so bad (so bad) immediately followed by a book so good that i'm suddenly coming to several realizations about why ningen shikkaku's so big in japan

#one thing abt me is i talk abt the 2010 movie of nlh all the damn time #i should watch the other one also. #it's like how i didn't understand why everyone hyped old brecht till i knew more abt the history of european mainstream theater b4 him #anyway. lethal transience. lethal transience! #why am i not in japanese studies again......

[foxcassius]

also lucky for me the cheapest shipping option was also the shipping option that will have the yarn at my house by saturday LOL

#i am almost done with the sleeve on the sweater i have been working on for months ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ #but i forgot my japanese size 4 dpns in cheonan so. i'll have to wrap up this final sleeve on thursday #THEN I WILL WEAVE IN THE ENDS AND STEAM BLOCK IT AND IT WILL BE DONE !!!!!! FINALLY #thats why i let myself order yarn #also after getting frustrated with the yarn for my antiquity blouse and looking at the pattern again i realized im just in for a world of #pain and suffering w that thang #SET IN SLEEVES MY BELOATHED.....so i will need some EASY shit to work on between bouts of frustration w the blouse #it'll be the first time i have ever? had 2 Large projects going at a time #i will also knock out angela's hat i think . i am probably being TOO AMBITIOUS but i'll have 3 weeks off after august 25 and then will have #mornings to myself after starting the new job so #i wont receive a Full paycheck august 10th and november 10th so having all these things i can make that i already bought the yarn for will #be good i think. ride my bike to the park and knit. listen to music at home and knit. even going into work at 1 and waiting until 2 #for classes to start and potentially knitting. the director said there's literally nothing to do before classes so we shall #see if she's a Liâr #t

[todayisafridaynight]

NO YEAH IF ANYONE'S EQUIPPED TO KICK ASS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IT'S THE ARAKAWAS LMAO

Okay, in terms of Aoki's actual arrest, that would've been chiefly for (as the news ticker says) incitement to murder and, y'know, taking a police officer hostage/assaulting a police officer.

I believe incitement is weighed the same as perpetration. While the gang survived the explosion, Ishioda didn't (I think?), so it's more than "attempted" murder. And because of the number of people involved, it would probably be considered incitement to aggravated murder, which narrows the options to a life sentence or the death penalty (or, at the very least, marks them as strong possibilities).

While normally incitement is difficult to prove (as it would be for most every other instance he did it; Jo would never talk, Ishioda is Kind Of Dead, and for Arakawa Tendo was, yeah, acting of his own accord), they have some pretty solid evidence + probably a confession, given Aoki's intentions to turn himself in.

So in terms of the original question, there isn't really much else that needs to be considered, since it's not like it can get any worse than a life sentence no matter what else he confesses to… Aside from the death penalty, but if Jo managed to avoid one, Aoki probably could? Unless Jo's age was a consideration since realistically a life sentence would probably kill him in the same amount of time it'd take to carry out an execution.

But for the sake of completionism, Suzumori's murder could very much be argued as a case of self-defense. Being assaulted after his body had already been pushed to its limits absolutely could have resulted in his death, so it'd probably be down to possession charges. I can understand Arakawa and Jo being dead set on keeping him out of prison even with that being the case, though; prison lowers the average person's lifespan as-is, and it could very well have killed Masato.

After that it's mostly a laundry list of collusion and corruption charges I'm not crazy enough to unpack, but. Yeah. I think Aoki and Jo would've been in for life… Kinda makes me wonder how it all would've played out if Aoki'd had that change of heart and they spent those last years together and Jo inevitably died first...

essentially, for the Quick Byte version for the mate who initially asked: life sentence if not the death penalty

#snap chats #tbh i think we all lowkey assumed he'd be getting life or death LMAO idk why??? i didnt say that in my iniital ask??? dumb shit ☠️ #i was too focused on trying to explain exactly what he'd be charged with just for clarity sake #i dont think ive made it apparent how thankful i am for your asks when im too lazy to properly answer my own VJLRAKVLKJ SO THANK YOU #esp with the week ive been having.. it seems like a small thing to be grateful for all things considered but i still am #nor could i ever be as thorough as you so i get the same exp as the initial asker now dont i (´▽` ) #moving on from that though. yeah no youd have to like. idk pay me to collect a comprehensive list of what he'd be done in for LMAO #i know american law just fine but i forgot everything i ever looked up when it comes to japanese law #i know statute of limitations on murder isnt a thing anymore.. but i mentioned looong ago that Yeah Suzumori Can Be Argued Self Defense #again the only reason to care for clarification is purely for clarification and just wanting to know yk. yeah we know. #the official charges hardly matters when it's already guaranteed he's going away for life or getting hanged #all of that said. i'll hoard my aoki-reunites-with-jo-in-jail fics and keep them close to my soul.. #im gonna be haunted with that question until i die #how about until i sleep cause MAN all of a sudden i just feel groggy #it is almost like. 1AM tbf. a normal time to be tired to be sure #and yet i still want to stay up......

[thekittenkait]

i am having a bad day

#a shit day #actually #a shit year #yknow the chinese idea that the year of your animal is good luck #no #this is by far the worst year yet #i am having such a bad day i'm not even writing this in japanese as a disguise to practice #anyway #i will try hard to push all of this away again by thursday latest and pretend i'm fine for class #SADLY #i don't know if i have to do a fucking psa again if someone asks me why i didn't go to class again or my classmate told them today #and i will cry if someone asks me what happened #so #yknow #shit day #shit week #shit year #also part of me wonders if i'm maybe just being melodramatic #i would love to like. just observe how other people deal with stuff. to see what the normal reaction is. #what the socially acceptable reaction is

[un-pearable]

ALRIGHTTT season 9 thoughts. this one wont be nearly as long as last time because honestly i dont have too much to say

um first things first i cant believe they killed the ultra dragon offscreen and nobody even made a comment on it. okay thanks ninjago writers. like i guess it died how it lived (aka completely irrelevant) but also.......... wow thats pretty brutal

jay losing his mind and completely giving up on life at the beginning of the season was really funny. i feel like this sums up lloyd & jay at the beginning of s9 pretty well

this frame made me laugh really really hard. is it really that funny? ... ok honestly yes yes it is

... and other important intellectual discussions that were had

also the old tea lady is so funny. if shes dead im sad about it but this is ninjago so there is an at least 67% chance she will come back next season. its no wonder she and wu got along theyre basically the same person

i was also DELIGHTED by the fact that we got not one but TWO scenes of people who really deserve to be run over by a truck getting run over by a truck. the only way this couldve been improved is. okay because comedy comes in threes right. and, as much as i love him and as much as i know this is entirely 10000% not his fault, this season's garmadon really deserves to get run over by a truck. frankly. im not sure if it would help lloyds mental state any but who knows maybe he'd find it a little cathartic. but i am very pleased with what we got anyways.

regarding the oni thing with them being shapeshifters, i have a few questions. 1) can garmadon and lloyd and wu do it. i hope so. canonically im leaning towards no but in my heart i want it to happen at some point. 2) ok so you can shapeshift into other people / things / stuff that already exists. so my question is: can you mix and match. can you give yourself pointy teeth. can you make yourself a furry. im asking the real questions here.

the ninjago timeline continues to elude me. i feel like i make this comment every single season but its true. the old tea lady implies that garmadon and wu have been living for a very, very long time, but also they were young adults at the same time the elemental masters were. my questions are infinite and my answers are few. between how old lloyd is and how old the elemental masters are and how old wu and garmadon (and misako ?????????) are and how all of this fits into a coherent timeline, i havent the FAINTEST CLUE. the writers arent even trying and they werent from the beginning. in fact i would honestly argue that the timeline is the most confusing aspect about ninjago, which is saying a lot because frankly this show is very, very, very very very confusing. all the time.

if possible, ive become even more annoyed by the writers' inability to let lloyd lead for more than five minutes. theyre allergic to changing the status quo, frankly, which is why we're rehashing the entire first two seasons i guess. like literally we are rehashing it entirely except making tumblr user iratusmus more annoyed along the way. mainly because they've taken out what makes garmadon an interesting villain and made him bland and boring and im annoyed. but we've already gone through that. OH YEAH BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT

anyways so what i was trying to say is that now that wu has returned, we're walking back the past three seasons of lloyd and his kind of character development in regards to leading. because, like, s7 kickstarted an arc where lloyd is now put into a position of being the leader which he isnt prepared for and doesnt really want, but a responsibility he has nonetheless. they dont really resolve it by the end of the arc - lloyd's barely even relevant in the climax and his decisions as a leader certainly arent, but we're left assuming that this will get resolved next season... right? and the writers skip most of that by giving us a 1 year timeskip, but then give him a leadership crisis anyways so whatever i guess we're still going to do that, and then after we sort of resolve that, wu shows back up again with the ninja and immediately starts dishing out orders and lloyd goes back to not being the leader and its just. well. what was the point of all that then? but also as stated previously, thats mostly just these past two seasons in a nutshell. what was the point of all that then. because we are, again, rehashing. the first part of the series. but whatever.

im also still sad about the noticable lack of oni teeth on garmadon or lloyd but like. whatever. fine. im not bitter (<- bitter)

so yeah thats my season 9 thoughts. coulda been worse, probably. it was fine. i miss lloyds old hair. thas about it

ah, the good ol ridiculously overpowered plot device that gets wordlessly shelved when they arbitrarily need them not to use it... we will miss you greatly (until the latest season finishes pulling off whatever bs its heading for given the sets)

... i have heard much about s9 jay and ngl im excited. he's fascinatingly messy as a character im looking forward to it. he deserves a bit of a breakdown i think. good for him. lets him pioneer a whole new way of being annoying. quoting someone from the tags of one of my jay posts but yeah being annoying is a character win actually.

it IS that funny asdkfjksdfj. the shot composition on this show is either painfully bad or utterly hilarious and kudos to the storyboard artists having to work within the lego constraints either way. the return of garmadon's sewing skills... ty. wu deserves his thematic counterpart in mistake. he also deserves to finally learn how to make good tea. the fact that hitting people with trucks is its own whole trope is just delightful. congrats to movie knuckles for joining their ranks.

they SHOULD. you are asking the important question its a damn shame they didn't capitalize on it. lloyd deserves to have one of those goofy episodes where someone finds out they can shapeshift and gets stuck in increasingly confusing and hilarious forms. he also deserves to fuck with his friends and change minor things and pretend he's always had them. what do you mean the tail's new.

i'm an annoying cole leadership truther but yeah,, yeah. at the very least commit to it. if you're aiming for lloyd to be the leader all the time rehashing the exact same arc over and over is both boring and?? squandering it?? there is SO MUCH potential for arcs beyond the initial can-they-lead and i know we're allergic to change in this writers room but cmon. once again a very comic-y trope and it does not work here just as much as it does not work there, though I do think going yj1998's route of having an episode dedicated to an over-the-top election full of sloppy handmade promotional merchandise where the fans get to vote for what team member they want would be an undeniable win. especially bc it would definitely go exactly how yj1998's did where a bunch of people voted for impulse despite him not being on the ballot. i want to see ninjago fandom rally around dareth as team leader it'd be great.

i definitely lost the plot there. anyway uh. fanart ideas aside. extremely correct. you are right to be bitter im right there with you. the loss of lloyd's hair (and the symbolism of him and garmadon sharing the same mold) is immense.

#this is unrelated but im listening to the sonic vocal tracks playlist again while answering these #and WHY is the version of the Japanese sonic x theme in this playlist in *spanish*. #universe. explain. that's two whole levels of translation. what the fuck #text✨ #ninjago #liveninjablogging #im glad you're having fun again!!! i am too experiencing this stuff second hand is great askdfdsjkfjk #that one shot.... asdfjsdjkfkjsdfjk

[magicalgirlagency]

Absolutely DO NOT inform me of the Saban Moon pilot.

#magical girl #i'm sorry; but english dubs have always rubbed me the wrong way. #it's just there's something about the erasure of japanese culture that has always bugged me. #it's like they wanted to do their own thing; but they had to butcher pre-existing material for it. #why couldn't they do the inspector gadget approach? #inspector gadget was created because they couldn't bring lupin the third overseas. and it worked! #and YES i know of black jupiter and wheelchair-user mercury; those ideas were awesome imo. #but the whole rest just makes me SO uneasy it spoils everything for me. #and of course it's by SABAN. those fuckers who have ruined pretty cure for the western folks. #like what the hell they were thinking?! glitter force?! BLERGH. #once again i am so sorry. i just can't bring myself to enjoy english dubs. #they were a traumatic experience for me growing up. #subs not dubs is the only way for me! #(though the only eng dub i've ever enjoyed was dragonball z; but still. it's overrall just cringe.)

[noxtivagus]

lucilius n belial.... ><

#🌙.rambles #[ ffxiv. ] #everytime i see them both together i swear my heart skips a bit #CAN'T BLAME ME THOUGH THE ART W THESE TWO R #unfair wtf they're both so pretty they look so good together #faa-san is so pretty it's so goddamn unfair #cries this one art though #i can't understand japanese sob BUT #i have this stupid little smile on my face #CRYING WHY R THEY #!!!?!!? I CAN'T W PHYSICAL INTIMACY MY BRAIN JUST HDJDKGJSJ #SOB LUCISAN TOO :< #they're so pure n innocent n precious #🥹 i love wmtsb so much #THE WAY THIS PERSON DRAWS LUCIFER IS #OH MY POOR HEART THAT SMILE #FUCK I AM GNA BRAINROT ABT GBF AGAIN #my motivation n inspo n creativity is returning fr #belial carrying lucifer vs the other way around oh my god #my cringe romantic ass being more active on social media again is making me return to this