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I'll be mostly offline a until I clear Sen no Kiseki II. Of course to clear the game I have to GET the game which means I have to wait for fucking Sagawa who are taking over a fucking day to ship me a game from Tokyo to Tokyo. I took the day off for this. I woke up at 8 AM hoping it'd arrive in the morning. It's 1 fucking PM and the fuckers still haven't even gotten the game to my delivery centre. Wow, fuck these guys. Are they bringing it on foot or something? This isn't the first time Sagawa fucked me over either, they once managed to LOSE A PACKAGE and then suddenly brought it over a month later with holes in the box . Fuck Sagawa. Edit: It's TWO FUCKING PM and they still haven't gotten it to my delivery centre. It takes them a day for a fucking half hour drive. I just looked it up on Google Maps. It's half a fucking hour from their business centre to the delivery centre for my neighbourhood. My package left the business centre YESTERDAY ...

The text in that reads Ro-suke (nickname for Russians used in the war): "I'm dyiiiiing" Japanese soldier: "I will finish you off!" Ro-suke (in the background): "Retreat!" Such scathing political commentary.

So I'm looking through Unext for movies to watch. Names of movies being changed to fit their target region better isn't anything special, but Japan still manages to make me go "oh, wow" sometimes. Edit: Made this. Edit: Here's another one. Tatari means "curse", and the subtitle "noroi no yakata" means "the cursed house". So "CURSE: THE CURSED HOUSE". Also "tatari" is the sort of curse less associated with western stuff and more associated with the Japanese countryside where old people warn of ancient curses (an old lady around 90 yelling "TATARI JAAAAA" at people is practically a trope) so it's a horrible mismatch with the film for anyone fluent in Japanese.

Source Yeah that's some retarded shit.

Q: In Gundam UC, Minerva is referred to as a princess, but Zeon was a principality (or duchy, depending on the translation). What gives? A: Duchy/Principality of Zeon is a mistranslation. There is no real translation. In real life 公国/ koukoku means duchy/principality, yes, but this is because in real life the 公/ kou comes from 公爵/ koushaku = duke (principality comes from how in French a prince is also a duke, hence Monaco is a koukoku ). In Gundam, however, Degwin is NOT a duke, but a " kouou " (公王). This title is completely made up . The 公/ kou in 公国/ koukoku comes from this made-up word, and thus it is NOT a duchy/principality. Since there is no real translation for kouou , there is thus also no real translation for koukoku . The " ou " (王) in kouou (公王), however, means "king", which makes it clear that yes, he is indeed royalty. So there's nothing wrong with referring to Minerva as a princess. Furthermore, in Japanese, she's never...

補足：言わなくても分かると思うけど「宇宙性気」は変換ミス。「世紀」、な

Dug up my copy of the official US release of CCA, figured I might as well give the subtitles a look. Not watching the movie in its entirety at this point, just jumping to memorable parts. 「なんでこんなものを地球に落とす？」 Literal translation:  "Why would you drop such a thing on Earth?" "Crashing this to Earth"... I don't know, since when did you crash things to others? And where's the question mark? 「だから抹殺すると宣言した」 "That's why I declared that I would kill them all."  Yes this openly contradicts the stuff from later on where he says his goal is to get people to move into space but that's what it says. And minor and inconsequential change, but "declared" becomes "decided". 「人が人に罰を与えるなどと！」 Another minor change- Amuro says that people (in general) don't have the right to punish others. 「私、シャア・アズナブルが粛清しようというのだ、アムロ！」 And then this . "I, Char Aznable, will purge them, Amuro!" becomes this load of...