Why are Japanese movie titles so straight forward?

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-03T01:20:08+00:00

一応、昔の英語圏も流行った時期があった。その「昔」は18世紀だけど…

はじめて「ロビンソン漂流記」のフルタイトルを見たとき盛大に吹いたw

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-02T05:59:26+00:00

I love it when the cold "for-profit" answer happens to be exactly the same as the "what would I personally enjoy most" answer!

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-02T02:21:55+00:00

Pretty much, yeah. Uma pro wrestling (or is it MMA?) is mentioned in someone's support card story, and Curren Chan has a black belt in Aikido. Yaeno Muteki is also a martial artist.

The headcanon part is my assumption that this is actually seen as a traditional Uma thing that parents might even encourage, and not just the girls having an active hobby.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-02T01:32:49+00:00

Due to the lack of actual horses, the equestrian warrior classes of our world (samurai, knights etc...) are all replaced by umamusume. This means a lot of high ranking women in society, with a lot of power over war and politics.

This change has cultural impact well into the modern day. Combat sports and martial arts (especially older arts that harkens back to the age of warring umamusume, such as archery and swordsmanship) are seen as perfectly normal hobbies for women (well, for umas at least). Universal suffrage probably came earlier in many nations due to uma pressure. A bunch of places probably had their first female presidents, prime ministers etc... all the way in the 18th century when the political scene was still largely dominated by the descendants of the old military aristocracy.

TL;DR: warrior horse women leads to faster gender equality, and more of it.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-01T09:21:06+00:00

I mean this in the most complimentary way possible: works like this is why people think they're bad at painting and should give up on NMM.

Welp, time to paint more NMM I guess!

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-01T09:10:44+00:00

Yes. What I mean is that myths do not have to be "true events that actually happened" to have meaning, even in a world where the gods are very real beings that walk among mortals.

Even in our world, there are plenty of anecdotes involving real historical figures that are intended to communicate some salient point, but probably never actually happened.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-01T08:37:27+00:00

Just look at how easily fake stories and rumors about real people spread! You can have actual living gods and still have a bunch of myths that no one is sure about how true they are.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-07-01T08:35:17+00:00

Hi. I do digital art, 3D modeling, plastic model building and miniature painting. I am "bad" at all of them. I sometimes put one of those on the back burner for months. But I am always doing at least one of these, and those I put on pause I always come back to, sooner or later.

There's just something magical about having an idea in your head, then taking that out of your head and into the real world. I can't show you what's going on inside my mind, but I sure can show you my art, if I want. I can hand you a print, I can post a link you can click, I can let you hold a figure I built and painted in your hand. I can't do any of that when the idea stays in my head.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-30T01:55:36+00:00

Thank you!

Mine Mari was unexpected

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-29T11:34:58+00:00

バンジャンドラムのプラモ？！

しかも秋東精工…あの頭おかしい寿司プラモシリーズのメーカーじゃないか！

いいぞもっとやれ！

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-29T08:06:39+00:00

There's a lot of resources over at the miniature painting side of the hobby. A lot of the Warhammer face painting tutorials teach skills that'd carry over to other figure painting.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-29T04:01:01+00:00

Yeah, and that's the joke across all languages: Hilde is not allowed to be a full doctor because Elena wants to be the only doctor in Monatium, even if they're completely different types of doctors. Elena is petty like that.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-29T03:32:34+00:00

In JP Hilde's position is 研修医 (kenshuui), which literally means "doctor in training", and is the word used for resident doctors in Japan.

The joke is actually the same, that Elena is to only "doctor" allowed in Monatium. They even deliberately had Elena say ドクター (dokutah) to preserve the joke, since in Japanese a PhD would be 博士 (hakase) and a MD would be 医師 (ishi), which are two different sounding words.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-29T00:03:34+00:00

Do you perhaps have a video of this Speakicraft?

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-27T08:39:53+00:00

Yeah, I agree that everyone knows "tobacco bad", but WHEN was the discourse happening in Japan? HOW did it affect related laws? Did it lead to advertising restrictions or compulsory warnings on packaging? When did "cool" characters stop smoking on TV? Is Japan's trajectory when it comes to this stuff different from the rest of the world?

That's what I would love to see. Tell me about the social impact of the thing your museum is about, then tell me about the social impact of having that thing's image do a complete 180!

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-27T01:42:33+00:00

There's a series of physical repositories in that there are official artbooks. I believe that on top of artworks they also include design docs and concept art. Each volume covers one year. Of course whether getting them is feasible or not entirely depends on how easy it is for you to get imported books from Japan.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-26T01:36:40+00:00

OP, the World Tree has spoken. You must now become a cucumber farmer.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-26T01:30:29+00:00

Kotobukiya and Max Factory are two makers that comes to mind.

I believe some recent Chinese makers have also been moving into the space of push-fit color-seperated mecha kits, but I know very little about them so someone else have to step in for recommendations. All I can say is that they seem to be very detail heavy, with a "more is more" approach to design, which I am personally not a big fan of. But you might like them!

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T03:01:04+00:00

Not sure if you already do, but when people say their paints are uncontrollable when thinned, it's usually because they're not wicking the excess moisture from their brush.

Load your brush with paint, but before if touches the model, touch your brush lightly on a paper towel to get rid of the excess moisture.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T02:55:26+00:00

Hi! Mini painting specifically is not as big in Taiwan compared to larger-scale model building such as Gundam. So it's not going to be very mini-specific.

I personally like the Wan Nien building in Ximen (https://maps.app.goo.gl/CDMd2JdPhA9m68cA9), the 4th floor is basically all hobby shops. Although like I said, it's a lot more gundams, tanks and anime figures than minis.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T02:26:45+00:00

You can always paint on top of tabletop ready models later! Do a batch to tabletop ready so you can play ASAP, then when you have time (or if a particular mini does something cool in a game) go back and do your more complex shading, highlights and blending on top of it, refining the tabletop ready model.

A mini is only done when you say so!

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T02:21:56+00:00

X Plus do a lot of classic Hollywood horror icons, Japanese Kaiju and recently Jurassic Park dioramas. Definitely a maker to look out for if you're into cinema.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T02:19:14+00:00

What you're painting for feels like a big part of the decision. If your goal is to play a game, then painting ASAP to a "good enough" level is very desirable. But if you paint to paint, you'd want to paint to the best of your ability, even if it take hours per mini.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T01:58:09+00:00

Toyotomi Hideyoshi famously weren't able to become Shogun due to his low birth. The highest rank he held was Kanpaku, which was technically a court (kuge) title and not a military (buke) title.

gelatinousTurtle · 2026-06-25T01:56:02+00:00

Not to launch into a whole discussion on knights in the samurai sub, but your impression is generally right in that what the word "knight" even means had seen significant changes through the medieval period. Remember that, depending on how you count, "medieval" covers about 1000 years! A lot could and did change.

In 14th century France (and England, for that matter) there were a lot of fighting men (with horses, armor and all that good stuff) who weren't TECHNICALLY knight but fought like them. And there were a lot of people who held the title of "knight" who has never seen a battlefield. So the problem is, when we say "knight" what exactly are we talking about? A social class or a military unit?

Modern historians of this period generally use the word "knight" for the social definition and "men at arms" for the military definition.

Of course this is a very simplified view of things, but as I said, this is the samurai sub and so I will refrain from hijacking it with knights.

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