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  • d.fish
    Those Gacha stories are pretty "fast foody", you know, because there's no plot, just "favorite characters open chests", well, they usually call them "jars", but you know what I mean, right? "MC binds to a multiverse storefront and sells 'jars' to characters that readers like and they gamble gamble gamble" that kind of story
    d.fish
    So "The Last of Us" was officially mistranslated in Chinese as "The Last of US", so Chinese audiences only know the series as "美国末日", or literally "American Apocalypse".
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    Well... was it not an Apocalypse game? XD
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    d.fish
    that's why its hilarious
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    I mean, yeah, Douluo Dalu is trash writing, but it's still "good" and "real", you know, there's not really any "I can't touch this" kind of writing in there

    Like most wuxia, I guess, I mean, these days, there's a lot more censorship, yes
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    d.fish
    But you know, one of the main antagonists was born of rape, another villainess became evil because she was raped, the protagonist supports aristocracy and crushes the hopes of peasants, the protagonist's teacher's main personality traits are a playboy and a hypocrite

    Yeah, there's still parent-child drama, there's still tensions, high school drama
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    d.fish
    But there's also prostitution, banditry, coercion... you don't get that shit in RWBY, the world feels real. It's not one of those shitty fanfics that just tell you "the strong eat the weak", it depicts such a world. I mean, it's still shitty writing, don't get me wrong, but it still does what it does.
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    Biigoh
    Yeah
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    Danmachi power system has got to be one of the most worthless things ever. None of the numbers really matter and no one cares about them after each level, the big "level 1/2/3/whatever" only matter when the protagonist isn't there, the super special protagonist halo in the abilities is just a scaled down version of the OP JRPG cheat skills screen, and everyone's just arbitrary in power feats
    d.fish
    I guess its sort of like if you isekaied to a slavic setting and named yourself Loliya or something
    d.fish
    "I isekaied a hundred years ago to Bleach as a new soul in the shinigami academy and worked tirelessly day and night, and just became captain-level, just to find out my Fishy system was lazy and procrastinated onlt only awakened just now, and all it gives me are newbie level quests."
    d.fish
    loli loli
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    Fish Fish has found the Loli Loli fruit?
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    Heaven Canceler
    Heaven Canceler
    Does it make you a loli, make others into lolis or create lolis?
    d.fish
    d.fish
    It's better to create lolis, after all, there's already a "turn others into lolis" devil fruit
    d.fish
    If you think about it, King's power isn't that rare in Chinese novels, or just Chinese stories in general. "Face slapping" is basically having the King Engine roaring in the background all the time
    d.fish
    There's also that Akai Shuichi isn't just Miyano Akemi's boyfriend but also her cousin, and he still used her to get into the Black Organization and led to both her and her sister's tragedies, what's up with that guy looking like a young Michael Jackson despite being half Japanese and half white
    d.fish
    Why didn't the Black Organization killed Kudo Yusaku and Yukiko afterwards, it doesn't make sense
    Florian
    I've been discovering a music genre called breakcore recently and listened to so much of it that I've given myself an earworm.

    It's not even a specific song but my brain blending them all together and cause it remembers them incorrectly it constantly remixes them. It's actually kind of awesome.

    I hope it stops at some point, tho.
    d.fish
    It would be more interesting if xianxia alchemists acted more like cartel druglords

    I mean, like, you know, you'd think Walter White would be a superb alchemist and immortality cultivator
    d.fish
    So basically, here, it's not called something stupid like "reverse sexual morality" or whatever other retard label that sprung up from the internet, instead, it's called "Women's Rights". I'm not joking, you can search for the stories that start with "女尊：..." . Of course, the literal translation is "Female Respect", but you know. Still silly, like still not meaning what it means, but very different.
    d.fish
    So the reason why Douluo Dalu is called the "sewer gutters of xianxia genre", one reason is because of the trashy (but still better than RWBY) writing, but the main reason is that the MC could kill the peak power level people with gadgets from a middle level wuxia world, as well as the cultivation methods from a second rate sect stolen by the MC in that world are OP and considered cheats in Douluo Dalu
    d.fish
    So you know, the Chinese/Taiwanese version of the game is so nice, elegant, and has some big ideals and stuff, and the title is the same, with the same kind of poetic nature, but the moment the title is translated to English, it becomes this shitty "Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy" lmao what the fuck is this
    d.fish
    Like you know, "ANBU" is used more by the English audience used to the American three letter organizations, but in Japanese and Chinese they're always addressed as "the dark part", but it feels like English readers would get angry and would be hardheaded against that kind of title in a story
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    d.fish
    d.fish
    naruto is very chuuni
    NTR Commissar
    NTR Commissar
    部 on its own is really more appropriately translated as 'division' tbh, so even ignoring that it's shortened from 暗殺戦術特殊部隊 in which case 'unit' might be appropriate, 暗部 (ANBU) is still more literally 'shadow division' when translated in a vacuum.
    NTR Commissar
    NTR Commissar
    Good point about it being rendered in all upper case to evoke the feeling of an acronym though.
    d.fish
    It's like, you know, I think, you could picture an asian Emperor Palpatine going like, you know, "Excellent, something something, dark side, something something, it has begun, something something, Opium War Part Three, something something, complete"
    d.fish
    I mean, the short videos do have some titles, but I'm not sure if they correspond with the actual series I'm talking about; comic "囤货时代", web novel "囤货主宰", audio "囤货主宰世界"... and apparently names and original work has been modified hm
    d.fish
    So there's this one web novel about the end of the world in ice, and the dude returned from dying once to redo, and made his apartment a shelter, and then the whole setting changed to like a x-men-like thing, where people have superpowers... it's trashy but kinda good, like the overall plot is shit, but you know, the drama is written well... like the gooder x-men stories
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