#Chesarka watches TWEWY

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Fruits Basket 44 - 48 (s2 ep 19 - 23) | TWEWY 11 - 12 (FINAL) | Fairy Ranmaru 12 (FINAL) | Deca-Dence 7

Fruits Basket 44 (s2 ep 19)

Rin really has a problem with jumping out high windows…

Well, Haru means a lot to Rin, so I can see why Haru would continue to be so kind even after Rin gets violent.

I thought Shugure would go all “high school girls” when talking about the culture festival, but I guess not. Maybe my memory of the manga is worse than I thought.

What’s the 06 on Kyo’s shirt for…?

Why are you apologising, Shigure?...Oh, never mind. I take it back.

This reminds me Takaya said Rin is the “character in charge of sexiness”. (I dunno why that, of all sentences, stuck with me after all these years.)

Fruits Basket 45 (s2 ep 20)

Mito Komon.

Machi and Kakeru are basically parallels to the Sohma curse, as you probably figured out.

Oh! The storage room! (laughs) Also, since I paused at a weird time, you can see Yuki’s eyes in the darkness…LOL.

Fruits Basket 46 (s2 ep 21)

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Fruits Basket 47 (s2 ep 22)

Uhhh…can we call this Freudian? Yeah, let’s go with that.

Does Flying Pot (Manabe) know Kyo transforms…?

Fruits Basket 48 (s2 ep 23)

“She looks so cute!”

That one hint of skin we can see from Kyo from within his jacket? (chef’s kiss emoji) Good stuff.

*sees sign outside toilet* Macarons at 2 pm! Ooh!

…I forgot what outdated technology was replaced here, but it was probably a cassette tape or something? (<- maybe shooting too far into the past with that)

TWEWY 11

“Please Excuse My…” -what? …*thinks* Oh. PEMDAS. I see.

…oh, of course the final boss is a dragon!!! That’s always a cool way to go out!

TWEWY 12 (FINAL)

This ending reminds me of Fate/Zero…and I like Fate/Zero, so that’s a good comparison.

Aw, we don’t get to see Shiki’s (real) eyes, dammit…

Oh! Nao and Sota, too!

Eri, too!

Aw, that anime was good. I’ll miss it for a bit, but I don’t think it will make a hugely lasting impression in the end.

Fairy Ranmaru 12 (FINAL)

…welp, now I’m stuck with these guys for another year and three quarters. They better go out with a bang.

*chef’s kiss emoji* Quality butt shot from Uruu.

Oh! Ranmaru summoned Houjou’s key!

“…to meet it with a smile.”

Homura only sees his father…what about his mother??? (Everyone else sees both.) LOL, though – limiting corruption? Takara is the most corrupt of all fairies, I think.

Shiroyuri…? Is that her name? The woman Chilka liked?

Deca-Dence 7

“…it’ll be dangerous.”

I’ve…never seen Natsume cry. To be honest, it makes me want to cry too.

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Fumestu 6 | Fairy Ranmaru 10 - 11 | TWEWY 10

Fumetsu 6

I learnt, just through observation, that the Fumetsu language is based on Japanese. I wanted to make a proper Spellbook post on it, but there’s…not much to say beyond that.

[Fushi, as Oniguma, gets hacked into by the Nokker] – Now that must be some unbearable pain! (audience groans)

Ah! Gugu!

Fairy Ranmaru 10

Hedonism, eh? I think the word translates to “pleasure”, but “hedonism” works better in context.

G…*stifles laughter* Gahaha! Takara types exactly the way he speaks, accent and all…those blog posts suddenly have a whole new dimension of meaning to them, hehe.

I replayed the bit where Takara’s calling a girl several times…so this girl he contacts, her name is (A…?)yako.

So…that’s what’s up with the lawyer.

Aw, young Takara is such a sweetpea…I wanna cuddle him.

…that’s Aru (from Juka’s ep) who took care of Tina’s (<- I know her name from the synopsis on the F Ran website) child, isn’t it?! It is, isn’t it…?

…oh dear. Pole dancing? Whatever will we see in this anime next? Flashbacks? (<- sarcastic)

I already learnt from translating one of Hishida’s tweets that this gambler is Jun Fukuyama…sorry if I spoilt you on that.

*Tina cries* - D’aww, Tina needs a hug too…

Takara’s…mother? That got real Freudian…

Fairy Ranmaru 11

1 ep. until the end.

The sloth without the glasses…is so ugly…(LOL?)

Green F sign.

Ooh, Sirius eyecatch.

I think it was blankie-greenie-anon who said it first, but Sirius says “…chiruka!” with the “Bloom or fall!” bit.

Argh! My eyes! Houjou’s transformation is ugly as heck!!! (<- vastly prefers bishonen over ojisans like Houjou)

TWEWY 10

I like how confused the cat is on the AMX graffiti, LOL.

I wonder, what was the rationale behind the “die 4 my cause” line…? (in the Funi subtitles) Is it just to fit more in line with Minamimoto’s number theme…?

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Fairy Ranmaru 3 - 5 | TWEWY 3 - 5 | HGPC 6 - 12, 22 - 24 | Back Arrow 7

Adding the tag for Fairy Ranmaru, because that's the only anime I have really set for this season.

Fairy Ranmaru 3

· Update: For some reason, I didn’t quite realise he was speaking English the first time and then repeating himself in Japanese. It’s only a very short scene, which is probably how it happened.

· LOL, that one well-timed beam that only vaguely obscured Uruu’s butt…

· If I heard small Uruu right, he calls her okaasama and not okaasan.

· LOL, Asahi (morning) = Yuuhi (evening) beer.

· I wonder what’s up with Houjou? Is he gonna be evil, like (SPOILERS!) the manager in Mahou Shoujo Ore? Why doesn’t Houjou have wings, anyway? Update: Notice the main quintet get rid of the wings in some shots and then conjure them when necessary. It might just be Houjou hasn’t needed his wings yet…

· Hmm…I’ve been thinking about how Japanese HypMic fans buy lots of CDs and merch (crazy amounts, have you seen the shrines???) to do something similar, but their purpose isn’t really to keep their characters’ careers going in as much as it is to further a plotline…so is it really on the same level as this [buying all the photobooks for the sake of helping the relevant celebrity succeed]? I dunno, you decide.

· LOL, conveniently-placed light beams are really terrible this episode.

· …wow. That got…uh…suggestive (?) (I was really shocked when I saw that the first time. How did they manage to get away with that on late-night TV???)

· We went from Madoka Magica -> moe world -> ukiyoe world…what’s next?

· …uh…suggestive? (x2)

· They really like the pot theme, huh…?

· I dunno if that was meant to be poignant that Ranmaru said Uruu was crying on the inside, but…I laughed at it.

HGPC 6

· Wait, so why was Nodoka’s mum unemployed? Was she moving for work? Update: Seems she quit her job because Nodoka was hospitalised.

HGPC 7

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HGPC 8

· SKY appears to be “Sukoyaka”. Update: Yep, later you see Chiyu with the track outfit and it says SKYK.

HGPC 9

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HGPC 10

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Back Arrow 7

· This general with the big beard kinda looks like Archie (from Pokemon).

· Hmm…I think I like Prax already, with the sole exception her Briheight looks rather similar to a palette-swapped Muga.

TWEWY 3

· This song must mean so much more to people who’ve played the game…(The OP, I mean.)

· Shoumetsu…it means “erasure”, technically. Will wait and see if it means more in context.

· Subaru using his normal voice as Beat. I think Ichiro is also his normal voice, or slightly gruffer and/or lower.

· Tower Records, as anime fans know, is an anime/music store. They’re well known for their “no anime, no life” stuff (exhibit A: the HypMic Rhyme Anima version).

· Ooh, Shibuya Marui. Reminds me of the one I saw in Akihabara.

· One of the signs in the back says “Shibuya First Bank”.

· “…1 Days” (sic).

· Why do I seem to recall Neku can only use one of his badge powers as a time…? Where did I learn that from?...I don’t know.

· The final boss defeated in episode 3. There is surely more around the corner…

· Ohhhhhhhh! That’s a big twist!

TWEWY 4

· Parco = this department store chain. Known mostly for P’PARCO shopping centres.

· *opens calculator on computer* The square root of 10814 is 104…Shibuya 104. Update: It’s 109 in real life, but 104 here.

· Are those…crabs? *Crab Rave plays in background*

· The Reapers at the top have cardinal directions in their surnames, but Uzuki doesn’t. That’s because her first name means the 4th month of the calendar. Update: Kariya has the character for “hunter” in his surname, too.

· LOL, Yoshidaya (in the back, a parody of Yoshinoya).

· I wonder, why is Joshua’s power so similar to Neku’s fire pin…?

· Rhyme has “dream” as one of the kanji in her name.

· Kangaroo Noise…(*thinks about HypMic ARB* Not more kangaroos…) (<- kidding)

· Oh no! I read spoilers before this so I knew Beat was going to become a Reaper, but…oh nooooooooo!

HGPC 11

· Exploding dandelion seeds…now that’s novel!

HGPC 12

· Ah, so here’s Batetemoda’s intro…(he’s such a chuuni…)

HGPC 22

· Skipped a bunch of episodes because I saw them already.

· The decision to write “Asumin” without the U is a bit weird, I think, but still a valid one.

HGPC 23

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HGPC 24

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Fairy Ranmaru 4

· LOL, he (Juka) tossed poor Bakkun…

· LOL, censorship bottles.

· Brass ring. I’d never heard of the term before and I’m an English (kinda-)native speaker. (Technically Cantonese is my first language, but English is my best.)

· Did you see Uruu’s rubber duck?

· Bakkun’s a couch now! Cute!

· …so basically, Juka is a healer. Got it.

· Note how the F is green now…

· I always look away at the kiss scenes. They’re a bit of a waste of time, methinks.

· LOL, the randomly-placed effects and beams over Juka’s bits.

· Oh, Sunflowers. That would explain why Starry Night is Juka’s painting in the OP, like Uruu’s is the Great Wave.

· …and here’s Starry Night now, right on cue.

· JKRM???? (Shouldn’t that be L…?)

TWEWY 5

· The A in “CAT” looked slightly like it had cat ears.

· Wait, if this was with flip phones back in the day, did they still have apps then…? Or was it programs?

· Ooh, orange badge.

· ”Fresh Humburger”, LOL.

Fairy Ranmaru 5

· Note the opening segment has a plain chatreuse background for Ranmaru (aside from a scratched effect, like someone’s rubbed a pencil lead over it), fireworks for Homura, the Wave for Uruu, Starry Night for Juka and…I don’t know what Takara’s is, but it’s bright yellow and has spots on the edges.

· LOL, Bakkun’s use of sauces. If they only eat curry, why do they have tomato sauce and mustard, anyway…?

· I don’t think I ever properly understood what “out to lunch” meant…”temporarily not in command of one's mental faculties.” There you go!

· The sign’s F is gold this time…

· Yeah, around when she said “you bought all my vegetables”, I noticed the boxes said “carrots”, “potatoes” and so on. I didn’t even know “carrot” had kanji until yesterday, believe it or not (and I learnt that from a HypMic fan comic…*sweatdrops* Samatoki hates carrots).

· I dunno why, but men in anime sure seem to be proud of eating meat…

· LOL, weirdly-placed light beams over Takara’s butt. (I don’t know whether to call the staff “cowards” for refusing to showing the full butt or not.)

· Even the money has pots on it! I love how this anime keeps on going with that joke…(lel?)

· As it turns out, fuhen means “unchanging”. Yaochou likewise means “fixed game”, but it’s a pun on the word for “grocer” (八百屋, readyaoya and sharing the first two kanji, hence the English translation of “Fixed Grocer”).

· Oh! I had to think about it a little, but Ruise = Seiru (sale) backwards. (Update: Sort of, there's a line in the middle that has to be covered for with the I.) “Oshida”, I think, is meant to mean “authority”, so to put that with Fuhen would mean something like “eternal authority [over Ruise and her dad, due to their debt]”. Update: You know when the bull gets pushed out of the ring? That’s called oshidashi.

· Hmm? That star badge Takara wears in human form seems to be that yellow thing on his shoulder in fairy form.

· Hmm…come to think of it, “bull” was the name of a type of stock market speculator…What a pun!

· Why does Takara keep licking his lips???

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TWEWY 6 - 9 | Fairy Ranmaru 8

Might as well add the TWEWY tag now, the season's almost over.

TWEWY 6

This “grab by the shirt” scene seems to parallel his situation with Shiki earlier on.

“Territory”? I don’t see why they had to shift the word to “turf”, even though there’s no meaning lost.

Shinjuku too? I don’t suppose other places in Japan have Reaper Games and whatnot too…?

TWEWY 7

So Chidori Ashi Kaikan (Tipsy Tose Hall) is a parody of the real Chitose Hall. Chitose can be converted to kanji that mean “thousand years”, as opposed to Chidori’s “thousand birds”. Chidori ashi = drunken staggering, hence the pun.

There was an “FSN” on one of the signs in the back…Fate/Stay Night, perhaps…?

I saw “Jupiter” on one of the signs in this episode…turns out that’s the name of the game development company, LOL.

Notice the cross on a sign near Joshua at the start of day 7.

Laser spiders! Cool!

Heart-shaped lollipop this time, LOL.

Inverse matrix.

*Minamimoto becomes Noise* Oh…s***. (That will be all I’ll say on the matter.)

TWEWY 8

H & W (H & M), LOL.

TWEWY 9

Car-kun got Beat and Rhyme (LOL…?).

Raimu (Rhyme) can be rendered in kanji characters that mean “next dream” or “future dream”, so it makes sense.

What is Neku’s entry fee, 3rd time around???

I’m laughing slightly at how Neku doesn’t want Joshua back…

It’s not every day Beat uses the real name of “Lollipop” (Kariya) either…

I read up on the fashion brands of the game and…now I see what’s up with those signs.

Fairy Ranmaru 8

LOL, this feels exactly like the business I was going on about not too long ago…(referring to this WordPress post on translator visibility)

LOL, isn’t that pose the tree pose in yoga…? (the first one Juka did)

That’s some very…er, tasteful censorship, Bakkun (LOL).

Green F sign!

This ep. is really important, especially in this time of COVID. Don’t let the underappreciated, like the volunteers and the childcare workers, go unappreciated.

For some reason, I found it funny when Homura woke up and started staring at Uruu…heheh.