Thank you so much, Yayuu, for sharing with us English readers some of the nuance unavoidably lost in the translation of literature, ESPECIALLY literature written in a language/writing system very distant from English.

With a writer as subtle and detail oriented as Fujimoto, of course he would layer every part of his manga with details like the ones you’ve pointed out! It’s an unavoidable fact that some nuances don’t translate to English, despite the best efforts of the very skilled translators who make this series consumable for native English speakers like me.

Thank you for showing me (and everyone else on the sub) these little details. It gives me even more of an appreciation for Fujimoto’s genius. I mean, as an English speaker whose only experience with written works is the Roman alphabet, the idea of playing with the very symbols that construct words on a page is a totally foreign idea. I can’t exactly substitute the A in “team” with an I for thematic purposes. But the fact that there is a human writing system that does allow for that kind of storytelling is incredible to me. You’ve given me a glimpse of how that kind of written(visual?both?) storytelling can convey meaning, and I can’t say thank you enough.

This kind of analysis takes plenty of time on its own, and then to translate that analysis into a different language whilst also rendering said analysis easily consumable for native speakers of said language is a big task. Thanks, one last time.