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Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Waffleman_ posted:

Instead of B-movies, it's anime movies.

"Zach, I've had a certain film on my mind. An adventure movie from 1979 and the directorial debut of a bona fide legend. You know, a dashing thief, a beautiful princess, a corrupt duke, and a royal secret. That's right, it's Hayao Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro, starring none other than Lupin III."

"Zach, we were supposed to go to the Monobear meeting in the gymnasium to check out the new incentive to kill, but if you want to act on a hunch I'm with you."

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Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

SingerOfW posted:

It's the transliteration. With a European given name, I wouldn't expect her to have a Japanese family name.

A small typo here: she's Saionji.

After writing a thirty page research paper about post-WWI Japan, I'd have been happy to never see the name Saionji again. (Prince Saionji was a pretty decent person, but you'd tire of anyone after reading a certain amount about them)

Knowing Japan, there's probably some horrible anime where all the genro are portrayed as schoolgirls.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Ledundead posted:

Heyo, first post on SA, figured I'd make sure it was worth it. So here's some fanart!


Mr. Francis York Morgan.
While on the beaches the sun can feel nice,
Beware, for soon comes trouble in Paradise.
So says Mr. Stewart.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
I like the idea of Togami and Naegi deciding to devote themselves to fighting SHSL Despair for the rest of their lives. They're a great odd couple, but they both have the motivation: Naegi is the living embodiment of hope and Togami is spiteful enough that he will put his plans for global domination on hold until the people that destroyed his family power base and source of capital suffer for what they did.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

SingerOfW posted:

The idea I had about Togami gaining weight is that he did it because food is so scarce in Monoworld. If he were to travel between small pockets of Hope around the world, he would probably eat as much as possible whenever he could (and no one would be able to object because of his gigantic ego). For all we know, he may be fluctuating between obesity and weight deficiency pretty often, and the game just happened to catch him in the Fatogami phase. This theory has its downsides (where does he get all this food to eat if it's so scarce?), but the overall idea of eating to survive still stands.

Humans aren't exactly camels. Even getting really fat would only keep you going an extra couple of days, tops, IIRC. (Sciencegoons feel free to correct me on this)

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

NeuroticLich posted:

I'm still not entirely convinced in either direction on the Naegi = Nagito theory. The birthday part I'm not too concerned about, as that could easily be a lie that Naegito told, but it's the height disparity between the two that I think hurts the theory.

Do we know how old Naegi was in Dangan Ronpa? I thought we were told the ages of some of the characters, but I may be imagining things. Assuming Naegi was around the average freshman age in the US, somewhere between 14-15, I don't think it'd be impossible for him to have grown an extra 20 centimeters over a couple of years. Whether it would be probable, though, is another story.


Japanese high school is 3 years, so Naegi was the equivalent of a US 10th grader, or 15-16 in the last game.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Does Kuzuryuu speak with typical Yakuza speech in the Japanese version?

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

orenronen posted:

To expand on it even more, our characters do not believe they are currently in Japan.

Well, yes. The only part of Japan south enough to resemble this is Okinawa (or possibly also the Bonin Islands), right?

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Powerfrog posted:

E: Judging by goon responses, maybe the occult isn't a big deal? I dunno. I thought it was satanism and stuff.

"Occult" covers everything from the person doing demonic summoning rituals to the kids playing with a ouija board.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
That doesn't really look like only 130 lbs of weight gain.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
If Monobear doesn't even like people borrowing copies of this game, he must really hate us for mooching off Orenronen for the game script.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
It occurs to me that killers in this scenario have a huge advantage: the ocean. If someone doesn't try to hide a corpse by throwing it in the ocean, I'll be disappointed.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

LateToTheParty posted:

E: Seriously though Apollo Justice (The game not the character) is horrible. That game just left a bad taste in my mouth.

IMO you are very, very wrong, but we'll have to wait for someone to start an AA4 LP to discuss this.

Back on subject, Hello Winter puts the rest of the LP board to shame. Visual Art, plushies, translating, LPing the "unLPable game..." stop making the rest of us look bad!

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Rith's proposed table of contents reads like one you'd find in an 18th century novel (Fielding, Richardson, etc.).

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

orenronen posted:

Eh? Whose lives are on the line?

Does this make her the Fool of Owari? :v:

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Action plan: Lock Nagito in his cabin, with perpetual rotating two-student guard. Food is brought to him. I forget if the cabins have indoor plumbing or if there's an outdoor latrine, if the latter, escort him to and from it.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Shieldhill posted:

There's been a lot of talk about the need to guard Nagito, but is he really a murder risk? It doesn't seem like that's his agenda; if anything, the real danger is that someone will murder him.


Protective custody may be what's needed here.

What part of my proposal doesn't see to Nagito's safety? That's why I said he needs two guards.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Bara/Yuri doesn't go any further back than the last 30-40 years, yeah.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Madoushi posted:

Owari can mean 'The End'.

I was thinking it was a possible reference to Oda Nobunaga's home province: I've been thinking of our Akane as "The Fool of Owari" in homage to Nobunaga. Am I off base here? (Maybe they're spelled differently in Japanese)

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

orenronen posted:

Japanese-style toilets are squat-style. They're literally a (hi-tech) hole in the ground.


Is there also a bidet vs toilet paper divide between the two or is that a separate issue?

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Kay Kessler posted:

If there is a murder in the next update - and seeing as everyone has been lulled into a false sense of security again, it would be the perfect time - the fact the party was girl's only is probably gonna be the key factor in the case. So i'm guessing the victim and the killer, or at least the red herring/first suspect, will both be female.



As for Sonia, I can't help but imagine if this game got localized she would be obsessed with old sitcoms instead. For those of you that watch Retsupurae, imagine a female BillyMC.

I don't think that you even need to stray that far. She could be a Starsky and Hutch fan and have the same effect.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
10 bucks...a month? Oh nooo I owe Lowtax over 300 dollars in delinquent payments.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Spiritus Nox posted:

Does anyone translate Japanese to English strictly literally? Besides spergy fansubbers and people on shoestring budgets, anyway? I've always gotten the impression that Japanese and English are too far removed for a straight, no frills, X=Y translation to work in any halfway graceful sense, even without accounting for cultural references that get lost on western audiences.

I don't know, I'd hate to read a translation of The Pillow Book or Genji Monogatari that wasn't obsessively literal and accompanied by extensive scholarly footnotes. It's just as foreign to modern Japanese readers as it is to English readers and trying to localize would ruin the Heian Period feel.

Just saying, there's sometimes reasons for leaving things as literal as they can be, even if it disrupts the flow.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Anatharon posted:

Out of curiosity, Orenonen, what motivates you to finish the LP?

We're approaching the second anniversary of Dangan Ronpa LPs on SA. Presumably it's sunk cost fallacy all the way...he's done this much, he might as well keep going.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Depending on how far away from release this is, this thread might have predated SDR2's US release by...18 months (if it releases in June)? Two years (If it releases in December)?

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Torrannor posted:

Perhaps HelloWinter has more time to do Phoenix Wright now that Dangan Ronpa seems to come to an end?

I miss that thread a lot, but wouldn't she have to reupload all of the old updates so people could catch up? Talk about a deluge of images.

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Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

Confused Llama posted:

It's a matter of taste. Are annotated editions of translated classics "incompetently translated" by definition? Obviously I'm not comparing the cultural importance of Dangan Ronpa to that of something like Anna Karenina by any stretch, but the point still holds. Some of us like to learn something, no matter how small, while we're consuming our media. Certainly a translated and published copy of a game to actually play is not the place for translator's notes, but an LP can be, and that's one reason why people appreciate it, myself included.

As for honorifics, that discussion has indeed been done to death. I will simply observe that as someone who has interacted with the international scientific community, there are absolutely English speakers who use them. English-speaking scientists who don't speak another word of Japanese will refer to their Japanese colleagues as -san or -sensei, not Mr./Mrs./Ms./Dr. Thus-and-So.

When I read Brothers Karamazov, there were some Polish nobles that got into a conflict with Dmitri and the version I was using had them be called Panie whatever rather than translating Panie as Sir, and included a footnote. I don't get the idea that properly-translated things don't have linguistic footnotes.

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