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...because Koyori's speech is deliberately stilted. It is an affectation -- so, in translating, you'd look for an English equivalent that sounded equally affected.

(Incidentally, there's a pun in Koyori's name, and the fact that she spends so much time learning origami. Japanese is such a wonderful language for punning.)

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Recently I’ve been trying to think of an anime I saw a long time ago, Bubblegum Crises comes to mind but I don’t think that’s it. It set in the future and the police all use tanks and are all men. Then several women transfer in and are thought of sort-of as a joke. Fitting that status they get saddled with a small tank. Either it was an old rundown one, or it was a state of the art one but none of the men wanted to pilot it because it wasn’t macho. Something happens and all the men’s tanks are destroyed and the fate of the city rested in the women’s hand and there small tank. I think at some point all the men pilots are piled on top of the little tank to make a hasty retreat and are hanging on for dear life.

All I remember is that there was a book and it's pages were made of skin. I could be waaay off here but I think I remember the plot being that there were pages missing from the book and there were two men, with a spotted history together, trying to find the other pages. It's been at least 5 years since I've seen it.

Thanks in advance and I look forward to a long life here on the boards.

I thought the discussion on pronouns and Japanese was pretty interesting, but I felt kind of sorry for the person who posted a question right before the 2 page detour started

I thought the discussion on pronouns and Japanese was pretty interesting, but I felt kind of sorry for the person who posted a question right before the 2 page detour started:

I wish I knew this one, but I don't have a clue. I thought I'd drop the question back in now that we are back to the question and answer mode so it has a fair chance of being seen.

So I'm watching Welcome to the NHK dubbed right now and Nanako, Yamazaki's crush, has a lisp. I find this kind of odd because she is a voice actress in the show... So my question is:

Did she have a speech impediment in Japanese, or is this a joke that they added to the dub? I only know a few words that I picked up from watching these silly cartoons, so I wouldn't know the difference even if I listened myself.

SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP!

I found it! Actually someone on Amazon recognized it and told me the name. It's called Judge.

Plot Summary: Hoichiro Ohma works in an office. Everybody knows him as a silent, humble man and even his girlfriend, Nanase, doesn't suspect, that he could be something more. But he is. When a person dies as a victim of murder, kills himself with a curse on his lips, when someone's death needs to be jugded - there he goes, for he is a Judge Of Darkness. Following Laws Of Darkness, with a book made of human skin and an unusual parrot, he makes jugdes over living, that would go free elsewise.

anime#686

There are literally dozens (maybe even hundreds) of ways to write the (usually) female personal name Hitomi, and most of them involve two kanji. But some (e.g., 睛) are single-kanji names. However, in this case, we have no way of knowing, because the three members of the group in question affect the use of katakana to write their personal names.

Im in need once more of the power of the people!! I have seen an anime that it's story interest me a lot yet i only found it unsubed and in a Kanji tittle.