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Oh, whoops lol :3

In all seriousness, there might be style guidelines that explicitly say to not translate proper nouns like character names that have literal translations.

And in most cases this probably makes sense. Frieren is reportedly a bit cringy for people who know German because the series uses on-the-nose German words for basically every character and place. Frieren = freezing, Himmel = heaven, Stark = strong, Fern = far/distant, Heiter = cheerful. There are probably similar examples for Japanese characters in other series, though I cont think of any at the moment.

Chainsmoker Cat is an ideal show to bend that rule though. “Thanks for the help, Chainsmoker Cat!” is legit a better line than “Thanks for the help, Yani Neko!”

It’s like that scene in Coffee and Cigarettes where GZA and RZA from the Wu-tang Clan meet Bill Murray in a cafe, and they constantly refer to him by his full name. Never “Bill” or “Mr Murray”, always “Bill Murray”. It’s not always funnier to do that, but sometimes it just is.

I love me some Masaaki Yuasa, and The Tatami Galaxy certainly deserves accolades for commitment to the bit, but Kaiba is Yuasa’s best series and Mind Game is his masterpiece (so far).

I gave up on this show last week. I just couldn’t bare to give a fuck about these people any more.

PS: Is there any industry writing about what’s up with the sudden surge in smoking media recently?

btw, there’s a post-credit scene

Service journalism! 👏👏👏

Who’s hip
anyway?

What’s the anime/manga taking place in Havana?

Whoops, I got my anime communities mixed up and meant to post this here. Thx for the assist, cm0002!

I’ll use this to scrape the bottom of barrels looking for more friends.

Mushi-shi is quite a few years old now, but it’s found its way onto a lot of ‘best of’ lists for the stellar tone that it maintains. Wonderful and mysterious, but never withholding. No grand narrative arc; each episode tells its own story, which is rare these days. Give it an episode or two and you’ll get the vibe.

Check out Apocalypse Hotel, Dan Da Dan, Witch Hat Atelier and Mushi-shi (of coruse).

Super Rare Magic vol XXIII, featuring such spells as:

• fingernail cleaning
• restoration of dogeared page corners
• silent fart