#i dont know Japanese

[konfizry]

Title: Rokurou repays a debt

Artist: Katsura ichiho

Source : Tales of Berseria Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics), Chapter 10

Nb pages: 8

Link: Full res on imgur

[lemonlilypufftangerine]

I just realized this, someone else may have already said this but the ace attorney titles are so interesting to compare in English and Japanese.

In the US at least, it's called Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney but in Japan it's Gyakuten Saiban (逆転裁判/"Turnabout Trial" or "Reverse Trial" translated literally?). But then The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles are called Dai Gyakuten Saiban 1&2 -Naruhodō Ryūnosuke no Bōken to Kakugo- (大逆転裁判1＆2 -成歩堂龍ノ介の冒險と覺悟-). As in The Great Ace Attorney 1&2 Ryuunosuke Naruhodou's Adventures and Resolve.

As in they added the name of the protagonist like the localization to further differentiate the serieses like they've never done before. Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations is Gyakuten Kenji (逆転検事/literally Turnabout Prosecutor) and Apollo Justice is just Gyakuten Saiban 4. And then Capcom did the reverse in English making it only The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Separating them just as Adventures and Resolve.

Also also i just realized the compilation of the OG trilogy is Gyakuten Saiban 123: Naruhodō Serekushon (Selection), (逆転裁判123成歩堂セレクション) in Japanese. Maybe so Capcom do this to align more with international localization names bc of Naruhodou name.

Note: They can have different names depends on the region and language.

Note note: I DO NOT KNOW JAPANESE nor anything about the Japanese fandom so take this just as silly murmurs. Plz anyone who does know japanese and about the Japanese fandom plz feel free to share or correct this post. Or any fun fact about the names from your region.

[cursed-anduknowit]

Flame 🔥 Hashira scribble

[gooseonthetable]

I think she is the best character in this show actually

[sharksliveontrains]

i literally thought chishiya was the rabbit bc of the all white clothes and hair 😭😭

[adairtrashart]

i did a little manga redraw thingy for @xmajordumps awawawawa

page i referenced under the cut (dont know which manga its from but i do know that yoshiko nishitani drew it)

[crafting-mojo]

Oh hey isn't that that guy etho's obsessed with?

[linipik]

Shiro with a full sleeve tattoo 💜

[blazeshardcat]

average vbs event: Wicked Epic Sound is participating in the next event with us!!!! we have to practice super hard and show them who is Boss!! lets go team!!!!

average mmj event: SHIZUKU did you lose the 1099 tax forms. we NEED to file those as freelancers otherwise the IRS will give us More More Penalties!

[stromblessed]

Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

[ganondoodle]

so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)

i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)

in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now

(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)

(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;

also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone

just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)

[lunarharp]

if i just told you i love you would this world change

[oifaaa]

The funniest thing to me about the fact that black butler is coming back for another season after like 7 years is that since the last season aired it was revealed in the manga that the blonde chief character is actually American which means the people who dub the show have to decide whether or not they're gonna continue making the American voice actor do the shitty English accent or if he's just gonna drop it out of no where and not talk about it

[3-aem]

btw if someone doesn’t tell me where this is from immediately im never drawing gojo for you guys again i am so desperate and he is so cute wtH!!!!!

[infinitelyprecious]

Feeling mushy and I just want to express how much I love our little BL corner on this tumbly website.

I have the best time here with y'alls meta and gifs and chaotic commentary. I love all of it.

We have a great community on here and I'm happy you're all a part of it.

Hugs and kisses (if you want) I love you all

[toaduskopl]

I got a folder of like 500 random comments I found from Instagram/YouTube that I thought were goofy, these are one of those commentses