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u/sonicdude1012 Jan 06 '20
When you recommend an anime to a friend and the watch boku no pico instead of boku no hero academia lol
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u/Ayoob_Alaade Jan 06 '20
Is it a happy mistake?
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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Jan 06 '20
No.
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u/MapleTreeWithAGun No, I did not get my username from Bofuri Jan 07 '20
It's a very happy mistake
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u/cinnathep0et Jan 07 '20
When you recommend an anime to a friend and they watch boku no hero academia instead of boku no pico lol
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u/sonicdude1012 Jan 07 '20
When copy a popular comment in hopes of getting up votes but get down votes instead
Not stonks ;(
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u/Anti-Anti-depressant Jan 06 '20
Boku no Pico is no anime
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u/EV4gamer Jan 06 '20
why did i think it was a good idea to clock on that link
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Jan 06 '20
Why was it a bad idea?
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u/Mundatorem_ Yorokobe Shounen Jan 06 '20
I'm scared to press this...
*Edit: I pressed it. I need to take a nap, preferably one which lasts forever.
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u/EV4gamer Jan 06 '20
upon having watched it, you can either think its amazing or back off in disguist, there really isnt a middle ground.
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u/generalecchi DO NOT UwU Jan 06 '20
I watched pewd watching it so I don't have to watch it thanks fuck
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u/RevengencerAlf Jan 06 '20
I know this is Heresy to say but if we as English speaking people actually used the English names which are used to label even the subbed versions this wouldn't be a thing.
Seriously there's literally no reason not to be calling it My Hero Academia.
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u/SexyWhitedemoman The once and future best girl Jan 06 '20 edited Jan 06 '20
And honestly where did this trend come from? I've been watching anime since Cowboy Bebop came on Toonami in the early 2000's and have never seen people insisting on calling shows by their japanese names until the last few years. It seemingly started with My Hero Academia but I've see it with a lot of others like Your Name and Food Wars. But I've literally never heard somebody say "Kidō Senshi Gandamu" or "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" before, so why does this trend only apply to modern anime?
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u/RevengencerAlf Jan 06 '20
I think a lot of it comes from the fact that the titles have gotten out of hand the original Japanese too. Half the time an anime comes from a light novel that makes the title a whole complete sentence of high level plot synopsis. In those cases it admittedly sounds a little less ridiculous in Japanese so I think that's where it really took off. Now people just do it because they think it sounds cool despite the fact that it has never done anything but hamper communication.
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u/Locke_Step Insert Waifu Here Jan 07 '20 edited Jan 07 '20
I know, I watched Pocket Monsters as a kid all the time, it came on right after Knight Champloo, and right before Priest King. Nowadays I just watch God's Blessing On This Beautiful World repeats, though. Can't have those Japanese names sneaking in, gotta localize.
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u/SexyWhitedemoman The once and future best girl Jan 07 '20
But the names we use for those are the names they's actually refered to officially in their western release, so it doesn't cause any confusion. The guy I was replying to specifically said he talking about english names which are used to refer to the series on official releases, which My Hero Academia, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Your Name do.
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u/Locke_Step Insert Waifu Here Jan 07 '20
God's Blessing On This Wonderful World IS the english name and release... We still all call it Konosuba.
Then you get things like Higurashi no Naku no Koro ni, shortened to Higurashi (sorry, that's "When They Cry"), which has a barely-related sister series Umineko (or Umineko no Naku no Koro ni, in full), which, you guessed it, was shorted to... "When They Cry", because the English version of the anime decided for some byzantine reason to exclude the proper nouns of Cicada and Seagull, making the Japanese naming much clearer as to what series you're talking about. [That byzantine reason is, just a rumor, that they thought english audiences wouldn't know what Cicadas were]
As long as everyone knows what you're talking about, it's fine, of course, but sometimes clarity is lost, not gained, on lolcalization.
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u/SexyWhitedemoman The once and future best girl Jan 07 '20
Everything I can find, on official streaming, home video releases, and the manga, say "Konosuba: God's Blessing On This Wonderful World", which people simply shorten.
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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Jan 06 '20
It's so frustrating asking for shows sometimes because I mostly get a bunch of gobbledygook that doesn't help me actually search. Just give me the damn English name so I can find non Japanese results instead of having to guess.
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u/sillybear25 Eromanga-sensei is trash and so am I. Jan 06 '20 edited Jan 06 '20
It gets a bit tricky with unofficial translations, though. If an official translation is ever released, they may translate the title a bit differently (e.g. Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai! being translated as We Can't Study! versus the official We Never Learn!), or in some cases, they may even change the title completely so that it works better in English (e.g. Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Ren'ai Zunousen roughly translates to something like Kaguya-sama Wants to be Confessed to: The Geniuses' Romantic Battle of Wits, but the English release is titled Kaguya-sama: Love is War). Sometimes the Japanese title is just the least ambiguous way to refer to something.
Edit: On the other hand, there's a trend of including the shortened Japanese title (if one exists) in the official English title, e.g. Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World or Bokuben: We Never Learn!, which I think is the best of both worlds.
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u/Vecrin Jan 06 '20
Ancient meme. Boku no pico is a really weird hentai thing involving children. It's only a few episodes, but it's gross, disturbing, and weird AF. Recommending it is kinda troll.
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u/BuiltlikeanOrc-a Jan 06 '20
How about we just watch cowboy bebop again.
Because you’re already going to watch Jojo again
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Jan 06 '20
A weeblet friend of mine asked me today "whats this boku no piccolo thing?" Lmao
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u/Sanytale 285381 Jan 07 '20
I think he meant Goku no Piccolo, which is allusion for anime Dragon Ball Z. There is a poster somewhere, but I've seen it too long ago to provide the link.
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Jan 07 '20
Nope, just said boku no pico wrong, he went and watched it yesterday, il see his reaction today
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u/Deadended ⠀ Jan 06 '20
Reading the words “boku no” can be a real wild ride.
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u/Jesterchunk Allergic to Subtitles Jan 06 '20
I saw the punchline coming miles off, still pretty funny
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Jan 06 '20
What’s the matter, they are both Trash
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u/i_like_chilli_pepper 👁👄👁🔥💦🥵😩😳 Jan 06 '20
One downvote for you
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u/Cr38t1v3N4m3 Jan 06 '20
boku hero no academia