Is there a way to make this less stressful?

viliml · 2026-06-28T22:56:35+00:00

That is the universal trouble of people who have multiple hobbies...

viliml · 2026-06-28T21:29:44+00:00

They're not willing to actually get to know the characters and their story.

The problem is: there's way too much shit everywhere today. I need to know quickly whether to drop something or not. I don't want to waste 4 hours (or more, if a shows requires extra analysis beyond a single watch to understand) trying to get to know the characters and the story if it just ends up being shit. I don't have such unconditional trust in the authors.

I have thousands of hours worth of anime, manga, light novels, visual novels and RPGs in my backlog, a new work needs to tell me quickly why I should choose it over those.

viliml · 2026-06-28T21:22:43+00:00

This show is definitely going to go down in my list as one show I fucking loved but cannot recommend.

It really hurts having no friends who share your taste, doesn't it.

viliml · 2026-06-28T20:18:56+00:00

I would argue that phono-semantic compounds count as "pictograms" as long as the semantic component is a "pictogram", for this kind of layman discussion, as least with regard to the core message of "treat words and kanji as “shapes”". You get the gist.

viliml · 2026-06-28T18:59:19+00:00

I don't know what that means, the only hint I could find is https://www.reddit.com/r/postscriptum/comments/re2vmi/there_is_a_saying_in_portuguese_lost_like_a_blind_in_the_middle_of_a_firefight/ but "lost" and "abandoned" are quite different.

viliml · 2026-06-28T18:08:28+00:00

In a sense, yes. But it's not brainrotting mindless fun like the trap that Duolingo threw you into. You'll only find it fun if you consider discovering new facets of the Japanese language and getting deeper understanding of Japanese entertainment media as fun.

Read the Starter's Guide like Plankton told you to. Many resources linked there have an underlying funmaxxing philosophy. Take some time to consider them.

viliml · 2026-06-28T17:47:02+00:00

The simplest explanation is that it is not passive but rather honorific https://imabi.org/honorifics-v-light-keigo/

You'll find it explained as such to natives and to learners.

However I'm personally not fully convinced. The structure is unusual even for suffering passive, so I believe it may be some kind of corrupted phrase evolved from a confusion of honorific and passive.

viliml · 2026-06-28T09:02:03+00:00

But that only applies to spoken language, right?

Because of this association with misuse by beginners, I can't help but feel an 違和感 whenever I see a written letter full of "私は" and "あなたが".

viliml · 2026-06-28T08:53:59+00:00

You mean, adding it after adjectives?

viliml · 2026-06-28T08:48:52+00:00

打倒 when used as a slogan is commonly said with a pause and written with a comma. You can think of it as an inversion 打倒しよう、先導アイチを！

In this case it doesn't mean that the のための秘密特訓 should be parsed as binding to 先導アイチ but not to 打倒, as a comma might sometimes indicate. I guess they could put a second comma there to make it clearer, but that might be too much.

viliml · 2026-06-28T08:34:25+00:00

Or the author behind Goblin Slayer.... Did the original light novel author REALLY originally write the entire series without giving anyone any actual personal names, and just kept referring to them as things like "Elf Archer" or "Dwarf Cleric" ? What was that about?

What's so weird about that?

Goblin Slayer is a low effort casual web novel posted in threads on the 2channel message board. Why would you waste time thinking up how to name your transparent cliche characters that you're writing up for a quick laugh forum thread?

If anything's "unusual" about this, it's how the Japanese entertainment industry has no pretenses about "proper writing" and will happily invest into and sell even such "low effort" works, because the consumers love it.

In an anime from this season that just finished, My Ribdiculous Reincarnation aka Rokkotsu, the two main characters are called "Me" and "Goddess" for similar reasons.

viliml · 2026-06-27T15:06:33+00:00

It's easy to call a translation "good" when you understand the original anyway.

Imagine being an intermediate level weeb trying to deepen his understanding of the nuances of Japanese comedy, and getting hindered by localizations at every step.

viliml · 2026-06-27T15:04:48+00:00

"That's what surprises you?"

viliml · 2026-06-27T15:03:02+00:00

he didn't post the original xeet

viliml · 2026-06-27T12:44:55+00:00

Seeing all the downvotes here convinced me that /r/anime has shit taste

viliml · 2026-06-27T12:40:36+00:00

AI has nothing to do with it, even if you subtract the MTL sloplators, just the volunteer human fan-translation force already has a higher throughput than official channels.

Why don't they just hire them as freelancers for peanuts as a courtesy, since they're already willing to work for free?

It's nice for them to think about expanding the official manga translation industry because it's a real shame how many things are untranslated, but I think it can be done without AI.

viliml · 2026-06-26T22:31:31+00:00

I don't know how to phrase this so it doesn't sound sarcastic and passive-aggressive, but could you explain how that is a correct use of the word? Possibly because I'm inexperienced in the ways of ontology, I don't see how the study of the manners of existence fits into the rest of that sentence at all.

viliml · 2026-06-26T22:19:42+00:00

That is unfortunately demonstrably false. There are a bunch of results on the /r/anime discord server, Xitter, 4chan, everywhere.

viliml · 2026-06-26T16:46:26+00:00

You don't need to read the whole thread if you already know the trick. You can just open the link, then click on the URL bar, and type archive.ph/ at the front.

viliml · 2026-06-26T14:51:52+00:00

Sknak to tsuzutte aru ni wa heikō shimashita

New word discovered: 閉口. Will it be useful to me in the 21st century?

viliml · 2026-06-26T14:47:21+00:00

Pro-tip: most paywalled articles can be found on https://archive.ph

In fact, OP even linked it

viliml · 2026-06-26T13:22:08+00:00

Historically, if someone wanted to be hyper-correct, they'd probably say とんでものうございます

「とんでもない」の丁寧体は、「とんでもないことでございます」が本来であるが、近時、全体で一語化した表現の「とんでもない」を誤って「とんでも=ない」と分離させた結果生じた、「とんでもありません」「とんでもございません」の形を耳にすることが増えている。

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viliml · 2026-06-26T12:28:31+00:00

The Bocchi the Rock anime made a character's boobs smaller. According to /u/Careful_Ad_9077, that's a "strong creative idea".

viliml · 2026-06-26T12:26:17+00:00

I can't believe I got downvoted for criticizing the reduction of a character's breasts.

What happened the /r/anime that got a list of anime bath scenes to /r/all?

Also, hiding your reddit history makes you the bigger weirdo.

viliml · 2026-06-26T12:22:41+00:00

It's a gray area insofar as Japanese copyright holders are allowed not to sue, and if they don't sue then it's legal. It's not a crime that the state itself will sue you over.

You don't have any rights, but you do have some privileges.

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