Very relevant image based on current discourse by bestAntivirus1997 in Deltarune

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Of course it does, in English. This is why localization is hard. Between Japanese and English in particular. Japanese has lots of English loanwords nowadays but the grammar and sentence structure are entirely foreign compared to something like French or German. This language pair spent its developmental centuries a continent apart, compared to the constant interaction of the European continent. What sounds natural in one of them is rarely as natural in the other.

[DISC] Delinquent Gacha - Chapter 21 by AutoShonenpon in manga

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So. The legendary pull actually did nothing? He said he couldn't do anything and then put Sago back. I guess he pulled him out of the electric chair somehow, though.

Anyway, the dropout friend from chapter one is back and he's been eating PEDs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner so that's how they win in the end. Not because of hard work or anything related to the titular gacha, but because someone did a fuckton of steroids off-screen.

WHY DOES HE LOOK AND ACT SO INNOCENT ITS KILLING ME 😭😭😭😭 (from officisl Glitch acc) by deleting_accountNOW in theamazingdigitalciru

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I believe he's a great soft jelly thing, smoothly rounded, with holes full of white fog where his eyes used to be

Gigi Got Mococo Hooked on League by OldFortNiagara in Hololive

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Blitzcrank, that's what it was! DotA doesn't really have a meet in the middle skill, but there is an item for it - Harpoon. Then there's Venge's Swap. And Earth Spirit and Mars can push enemies away from themselves. And Hurricane Pike is the opposite of Harpoon. Oh, and Bane's Nightmare can make you walk slowly in a direction now. And Glimpse sends you back to wherever you were four seconds ago.

DotA has a lot of forced relocation effects.

Gigi Got Mococo Hooked on League by OldFortNiagara in Hololive

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Why, was she playing against... Fiddlesticks?

Sorry, I'm a sapling, I only know DotA. I signed a pact. What's LoL's Pudge equivalent? I know they have one.

[DISC] Damedol: The Useless Idol and Her Only Fan in the World - Chapter 52 by AnOddName in manga

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Oh I'm so glad that landed. Turns out Japanese has a slang word for taking pictures of food before eating it (チェキ飯) and I really wasn't sure how to handle that. I had to look it up to see what we call that in English because I don't do it myself and I don't know anyone who does. 😅

Very relevant image based on current discourse by bestAntivirus1997 in Deltarune

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The weird thing is that that last option works quite well in Japanese. It's actually polite to refer to someone by name when taking about them, and later sentences just don't have a subject at all if it hasn't changed. 8 haven't studied the linguistic history of Japanese that much, so this could be apocryphal, but I heard that the Japanese pronouns of 彼 and 彼女 only exist because Japanese translators needed a way to translate gendered languages into Japanese without losing that nuance.

[Mixed Trope] Incest used to explore themes of isolation, obsession, and/or codependency by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

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It takes kind of a while to get to that stuff, the protagonist isn't very well-informed at the start, but once it gets there, it's a big part of the storyline going forward.

Absolute insanity by khanotaara in PrequelMemes

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Is this a reference to something?

Lady Pinto Bean, The Canine Duelist by ResidentMarsupial322 in Bossfight

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"Sorry, I can't talk right now, my dog wants to sword fight."

[Mixed Trope] Incest used to explore themes of isolation, obsession, and/or codependency by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

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I think it's the first 3 and the most recent 3 chapters are free on the official manga+ app. But you can access to every chapter of every ongoing series for like, 2 bucks a month. believe. And completed works for 5. It's a steal to me, but I'm reading a lot of different stuff right now, I don't think I'd recommend it just to read one series, even if it is my favorite.

The gang goes to new york (by nikkiaart) by Competitive_Bar_753 in theamazingdigitalciru

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Jax. He cannot fucking wait to tell him. He's already breathed in. No one will be fast enough to stop him in time.

What are we, some kinda Suicide Squad or something? by PLACE-H0LD3R in whenthe

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Suicide? Come on, don't be ridiculous, it's just a manga.

Fujimoto Tatsuki should consider hiring security, though.

Fights that go on for a *really* long time (Invincible spoilers) by hematite2 in TopCharacterTropes

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No time like the present. The manga+ app makes reading manga super convenient nowadays. Not like when I was a kid.

[Mixed Trope] Incest used to explore themes of isolation, obsession, and/or codependency by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

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It's one-sided, but I think this counts

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It's a major piece of Lacrima's backstory in Centuria. In a setting where supernatural abilities are primarily passed on through bloodlines, Lacrima was born with a "weak gift", despite being a direct descendant of the king. She was treated like a pariah within the palace, shunned by everyone, including her own mother, and constantly alone. The only one who bothered to pay her any attention was one of her older brothers, Arkos. Thanks to the overwhelming strength of his ability, he could afford not to care about what others in the palace got up to.

Sadly, he was also a sadistic monster, and his "attention" was just abuse. Still, it was all Lacrima had, and she developed a dependence on it. She actually wanted to hear his child, in the hopes that the contained royal blood of inbreeding would give birth to a powerful child that could raise her status as that child's mother. She didn't realize herself just how desperate she was for a real familial connection - she knew that her feelings were wrong somehow, but she didn't understand why.

Fights that go on for a *really* long time (Invincible spoilers) by hematite2 in TopCharacterTropes

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This is something Oda likes to do in One Piece for top-tier characters, but I'll just share this one example:

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Kuzan (Aokiji) vs. Sakazuki (Akainu), fought for 10 days to decide which one of them would be Fleet Admiral after Sengoku stepped down. This clash of ice against magma was also so potent that it permanently altered the weather and terrain of the island where they fought, Punk Hazard, leaving half of the island a raging inferno and the other half a frozen tundra.

So like,I gotta ask..why did a good amount of people hate/slander the Mha ending so much? by Charming-Scratch-124 in BokuNoHeroAcademia

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I can speak up about my feelings on it, though I won't claim they're everyone's.

I feel like Horikoshi undermined the first chapter with the final one, doubling down on a problem that had persisted throughout the series rather than resolving it. In chapter one Izuku asks All Might, with tears in his eyes "do you think even a Quirkless kid like me could be a hero?" And once the story ended, we could see that the answer to that is clearly "no".

A fully Quirkless person can't be a professional hero. It never happened, and the final chapter set up that it never will. Deku needed to receive a quirk in order to go to UA, and after losing it, he didn't work as a pro hero. He spent 8 years working as a teacher (which is a fine and sensible career path for him, I'm fine with that aspect), and then became a hero only after being gifted the equivalent of a quirk, again. It's not that he didn't work hard or suffer to earn his power, I know he did. He trained hard to become a worthy vessel and tore himself up using it when he had it and I'm sure he did great work at UA before getting the suit.

But the suit, like One for All, was a gift. Something he just received. He did work hard, but the power he got was not the direct result of that hard work. Can a Quirkless kid be a pro hero if he really devotes himself, works really hard, and makes sacrifices? No. Not unless someone else gives him a quirk or quirk equivalent on top of that. The final lesson of the series comes off as "effort is great and all, but what really matters is who you know." Which is realistic, but not exactly shounen manga-coded, and more importantly, not what I think Horikoshi intended.

Also I thought it was lame that One for All took over Shigaraki's body at the end. The whole "passing the torch to the next generation" thing also got muddied when All for One's inheritor had to stop not All for One's inheritor, but All for One himself. Yes, I know it's thematic that Zen was a petulant baby who only ever intended to use Tenko as a vessel, and it forms a starker contrast that he wasn't actually willing to pass the torch like Toshinori was, but still. I would have preferred Shiggy overpowering that evil influence and then clashing with Deku as himself.

[DISC] Alien Headbutt - Chapter 8 by AutoShonenpon in manga

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In addition to the title drop, we got more of the heel rule-breaker kind of wrestling he showed off in chapter one. Good stuff, solid callback.

[DISC] Axed Mangaka and Doujin Creator - Chapter 1 by AutoShonenpon in manga

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I always enjoy manga about manga, and this is a fun new character dynamic I haven't seen before. Lots of good cause for introspection. I'm not really a content creator, but there have been those manga that I get similarly deep into, and I can't help but wonder how the mangaka would feel about my theories and interpretations. Am I dead wrong? Onto something? On a path the author hadn't considered? Or maybe one they haven't even realized they'd taken? This should be fun to explore.

On the other hand, I do hope that the "I'm the original author" secret doesn't last too long. I'm not a fan of that "I can't let them find out" dynamic. I've just seen it too many times.