I just found out there’s a French dub for JJK and got curious so I looked it up and it only took Gojo going “Salut~” for me to realize that I, in fact, could not.
My favorite scene of mdzs volume 5 is at the end when lan wangji turns directly to the audience and says "My 33 whippings cannot be blamed on my family alone, as I made the conscious and fully aware choice to both invoke punishment (the details of which I am intimately aware of as, lest we forget, I handled punishment within the Lan sect for many of my teenage years) through injuring 33 of my elderly relatives and then to accept it through willingly traveling back to the Cloud Recesses. My brother and uncle assisting with my recovery and raising Sizhui is proof of their unconditional love for me, and my punishment was not a slight against me from them personally but instead a marker of my own commitment to the ethics within my sect and my genuine belief in and love of Wei Ying." and then goes to have sex with his husband for 24 hrs straight
1) Does anybody know why, when actual tiger tallies looked like, you know, actual tigers:
why the mdzs manhua and donghua aesthetic design of the yin tiger tally looks like this:
2) Everything I’ve read about tiger tallies says that they were used to prove that a general had the authority to command their troops (because the general had one side of the tally and the emperor had the other, using both together meant you had approval). But absolutely no source I’ve found explains HOW they’re literally, actually, physically used. Were they just… put together and held aloft so everybody could SEE them? Is it a stamp? Was somebody else’s job to inspect and validate that the two halves were both real and present, and they’d cosign whatever orders were given? I’m desperately curious
This photo of them is so cute but every time I see it all I can think about is how these two men are not only in incredible pain from their multiple bullet wounds but also literally just finished murdering like dozen of people including stabbing a man’s throat and then burning him alive
the man on the left also cries several times a day while the man on the right sleeps in the damn bathtub