I feel like that part's optional, but hey, stage names and all that.
The Japanese are interesting in that historically they would change their names, like, constantly. The higher ranking ones, anyway. Change your name when you enter court, change your name when you marry, change your name if you become a monk/nun, change your name if you become a squire/samurai to a certain person, etc. Something like names are very fluid. It's not nearly as common now, but as you can see, it does happen.
Anyone else think Vegapunk's design is taken from that famous photo of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out?
Mayumi's lookin' pretty good. May she stay healthy forever.
A good reminder that the first level of most apprenticeships is called "minarai", which means "learn by watching". Not a lot of direct teaching, but learning by watching your betters around you. Like how a new apprentice sushi chef is only allowed to make rice and do cleaning, but can watch the chefs in between and pick up their tricks.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon:
But there's also Yamato. Sigh. Look, I think at this stage Yamato in Oda's mind is just a man and a woman all at once, as the scene requires. I don't really want to talk pronouns again, but here we go. There aren't and will never be official pronouns for Yamato as English-speakers understand the term. Because casual Japanese language mostly uses neutral second and third-person pronouns (equivalents being 'you,' 'they,' 'that person,' just calling them by name, etc) and has most of the gendering happen via first-person pronouns (so masculine and feminine forms of 'I,' 'me,' 'myself,' etc), it isn't the same social faux pas to refer to someone with the wrong gender in part because it's much harder to do. And the first-person pronouns are taken as more of a masculine or feminine flair rather than the definitive statement of gender English third-person pronouns are, and will often shift based on the mood and formality of the conversation as well. So the Vivre Card didn't "confirm" anything except the biological bits we can all see because it wouldn't occur to a Japanese-speaking author to correct a form of reference that doesn't really exist in his language. Unfortunately, Yamato's mode of speech doesn't confirm one thing or another either, because of the flexibility outlined above. Deciding how to refer to a character like Yamato, or anyone fully androgynous or with a tendency to cross-dress becomes less about translation and more about adaptation because the cultural and social ways gender is expressed and how those expressions are taken just don't line up 1:1. Oda hasn't made Yamato a he/him or a she/her or even a they/them, so we have to look at how the character acts and what they say and how others respond to them and decide what the best fit for that is in our own framework. And to me, Yamato in the story (particularly the bath scene) screams someone who wants to be viewed as firmly masculine. Maybe a retranslation with the benefit of hindsight could go back over everything and play Yamato in more of a nonbinary/genderfluid/bigender way that gels better with these noncanon depictions of them as one of the girls, but in the version we have, the in-story Yamato reads male.
Oh good, I'm not the only one it's bothering. Gender is so . . . complicated in Japanese history it's so hard to pinpoint unless the author makes it obvious. At the moment I'm calling them non-binary, just because it makes it easier. Giant boobs or no.
And that's what it's really all about in the end. I.e. what damn pronoun are we supposed to use here?! This must be driving Stephen nuts. Yamato can be he/she/they or whatever, just make it easier to translate.
I think we sometimes keep forgetting that her dad is technically alive.
I don't think you CAN squeeze Amazon Lily, Impel down, and Marine Ford into one season.
@zeltrax225 said in Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon:
I always thought Yamato being a guy is her playing a role, just like how in Japanese cultural history, females do play male roles in Kabuki, which is followed by voice acting even. The earliest kabuki actors were in fact actresses playing male roles.
Opposite, actually. In modern theater only men are allowed to be in Kabuki and play both male and female roles. It did start as only women, but after a bunch of meddling by the Bakufu it evolved into only men. If you want women playing men, you go to Takarazuka. Or sometimes Geisha will be in a dancing performance that has them dressed like men.
Like I said, Jim Henson Creature Shop is waiting:
And just call Doug Jones for Brook, if Guillermo del Toro can spare him:
I actually LIKE puppetry and co. better than most CGI. When actors are actually dealing with something real in front of them it becomes so much more natural. CGI can be used to "spiff it up" for more action scenes, but other than that? No need.
FUCK YEAH!!!
It feels like it's still too soon for another episode, but this is either a short special or Vivzie is surprising us.
Oh ow, this is gonna be almost as bad as Guts chopping off his arm.
He probably was.
@PatTraverse said in My Hero Academia II - A true Hero:
This series made me truly realize how boring someone having all the powers is. It's funny when someone like Cartman in South Park does it as a parody but it's oh so boring when it's done seriously.
Exactly. That's why writing Superman can be tricky because sometimes he's just TOO damn powerful.
AFO doesn't have much of a personality other than "Mwahaha, I'm evil", either. Shigaraki's a better villain.
Hmm, maybe that's the reason I stopped watching the anime at that point.
@Nobodyman said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):
@Satsuki I don't think so. I've always seen Skypiea as a fairly divisive arc.
Thankfully still good enough for me to not stop reading. Good job, Oda.
Am I the only one who didn't enjoy Skypeia as much as others seem to? I mean, still liked it, Enel is a great villain, but I was ready for them to get off the cloud.
That's true, it was supposed to come out this summer, wasn't it? But here we are. I can only assume the strikes are part of it.
And no, I don't get why anyone would hate Vivzie, unless they were douches who think animation is only for kids cartoons.
Here's a taste:
@Robby said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):
They'd be absolutely insane to not get the actual big name award winning actress that WANTS to be involved in the show. And wanted to be even before it came out!
And since she wants to be in it so badly, she probably won't ask for much money, so budget won't be a problem.
Shouldn't have done that . . .
Seriously though, why did all magic seem to disappear with Elf Island?
I guess that's where Miyazaki was getting his money for this film from.
