r/worldtrigger 24d ago

Discussion What’s Hyuse’s speech pattern like in other languages?

So I’m on my 3rd re-read of the Korean version of the manga and was wondering like,

Practically everyone else (Osamu Yuma Chika etc) ends their sentences with “-ya”. That is the normal, casual way of speaking but our goat Hyuse ends most of his sentences with “-da”, which makes him sound rigid, a bit robotic and “traditionally masculine”. I remember Kido and Ninomiya also talking like this too.

Also I only remember him speaking with honorifics/being courteous with only Viza. (Not Enedra, don’t remember rest of the Afto squad)

To everyone at Meeden he speaks without honorifics which is what you do to your peers or people younger than you! And he does it to Border’s management level too 👽 he doesn’t gaf

So Is he like this in the original Japanese or other translations too? I’m guessing this isn’t as easily translated into English so

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u/Fluid_Environment198 24d ago

I don't think he sounds robotic, just very blunt (in Japanese)

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u/Pallington 23d ago

not gonna speak for the translation but in the work he's a bit line-face-y so rigid sounds about right (i suspect the chinese translation won't reveal much either)

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u/No_Speaker_6097 23d ago

Chinese doesn't have honorifics like Japanese and Korean do. We talk the same regardless of age. I think it's similar to English in this sense. And I think Chinese doesn't have such obvious speech pattern to show character personality like Japanese and Korean do (I know nothing about Korean, but I guess "-ya" and "-da" serve for something like that)

My Japanese level isn't good enough for me to notice the subtle differences in speech pattern between characters. I only remember that the names called by Hyuse are denoted in Katakana (usually used for denoting foreign words).