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kiminobokuwa
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Where do we draw the line?? Now Hiragana??
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Gina Szanboti
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Once you've crossed into the anthropomorphic zone, there is no other line.
I'm confused:
This seems like it'd be a great way to permanently lodge hiragana into my brain, but none of the personifications seem to have their hiragana anywhere on their clothing or accessories (that my eyes can pick out). I think it would also be interesting to get some insight into why they assigned the traits to each that they did. It probably makes sense to native speakers. |
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harminia
Posts: 2038 Location: australia |
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We don't just draw lines, we draw curves too. This is hiragana after all. Ba is so different looking, is he literally just a shimochan self insert. |
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Fenrin
Posts: 703 Location: SoCal |
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oh dear lord
Why are there two "A"s? As far as I know there's only one "A" sound. |
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marshmallowpie
Posts: 302 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada |
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I don't understand how these characters are connected to the written characters at all, but they certainly do have some good voice actors involved with this.
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Neko-sensei
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Great question—I looked this up, and after checking out A and the other A I discovered that the "A" paired with I is actually the very rarely-used smaller version. (Maybe he should be Romanized as "a"?) The same is true of "I"; pretty much the only time you'd use these smaller vowels is when being irritatingly clever and writing foreign words in hiragana, as "ふぁみりー" for "family" or "ふぃっしゃーまん" for "fisherman." |
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Mr. Oshawott
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I think in the case of little boy A, when his name is combined with I's name, they form the word "Ai". Perhaps that's why he got that name, despite that there's already someone whose named that. |
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Fenrin
Posts: 703 Location: SoCal |
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Aaaah, I see now, I forgot about the small versions, makes sense since they are anthropomorphized as children haha. |
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harminia
Posts: 2038 Location: australia |
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Ohh, good call. So there'll be a normal size I at some point too. |
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Hoppy800
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At this rate mobile games will end up like bad LNs, Mobile developers in Japan have to be running out of ideas by now.
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connysanada
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What's next? Cars? Hotel lines? Companies?
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EmpyreanBlaze
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Naturally, the line is drawn right before dark web territory. But yeah, moe is near-infinite. |
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lostbirdinatree
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I'm not a native speaker, but after thinking about how No is a farmer and Hi is heroic, I was able to find a bunch of words that could have informed their personalities using my Japanese knowledge, the website and tools at my disposal. (Feel free to correct me on anything, though.) A = aikyou (charming), akarui ("bright" in regards to personality), anpan U = uranai (fortunetelling), udon, usankusai (shady), utau (to sing) Ko = konpeito (star shaped sugar candy) Ta = tankenka (explorer), taikaku (physique) Chi = chishikijin (intellectual), cha (tea), chottoshita (petty) Hi = hi-ro- (hero), hikarimono (sliced fish with skin left on) Ba = ba (place) Note: Ba is used as one way to express a conditional statement (i.e. if X, Y) which may have informed his ventriloquism (if he uses his bear, he speaks) and his ability to appear out of nowhere (if you try to look at him sometimes, he may not be visible). Ne = neru (to sleep) Note: Ne is used at the end of sentences to go "okay?" or "alright?". Girls use it more than guys so it makes sense that Ne is popular with girls. No = nougyou (agriculture), nouka (farmer) or noumin (farmer/peasant), nori (seaweed), nouson (farming community) Note: No is used for possessives (i.e. X no Y can translate to X's Y). Unfortunately, I didn't find anything to attribute to the hiragana danshi with this knowledge. Nu = nuritsubusu (to paint out), nuta (vinegar miso sauce) Small a = akkerakan (looking like one doesn't know what's going on), azatoi (sly), ame (type of Japanese candy) Small i = ijippari (obstinate person), ika (squid) Note: The small characters use the bigger versions of their letters to associate words. |
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Haterater
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Nothing is going to be off limits with this. Perfect DLC is doing alphabets for other languages.
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