I caramelized my foot today :) she/her â eng/jap â tkdb enjoyer â i post alan x oc yumee content sometimes, feel free to talk to me I'm lonely uwu
When Alan was younger, his father once asked him a question. Back then, he didn't have an answer. But as he grew older, he had finally found it...and it was her.
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I rushed this lmao....and I'm probably late too ToT
If y'all notice any mistakes or errors, please do ignore them hahahahaha
I didn't get to fully colour it either but still wanted to finish this in time. Here is where Alan finally confess to Megumi on his birthday, saying the words he had hesitated to once say. I hope the feeling comes across even tho it's a little bit on the messy side.
Credits:
Alan's voice is taken by Hinata Tadokoro himself using his voice lines and lines from other shows.
Megumi's voice is taken by Mikako komatsu and Arisa Ogasawara from multiple scenes of shows so the tone may different in places.
The translation is completely different from what they are saying btw cuz I couldn't find the same exact words. Also the dialogues may come out a bit conventional since I couldn't proof read the script due to work đ
I enjoyed creating this even tho it's not perfect. Once again, happy birthday to my love and I hope to continue loving you next year too đĽşđ
SHO LOOKS SO FUCKING AMAZING IM COMBUSTING AND EXPLODING INTO MULLUON PEIECES WHO ALLOWED HIM TO LOOK SO GOOD
the no bandana look killed me and my ovaries and now im on my period
yes.
anyways moving on, elias looks good.
CAN SOMEONE ARREST THIS FLIRTATIOUS MAN STOP IT IM TRYING TO READ THIS CHAPTER STOP MAKING ME GO BACK AND HEAR YOU FLIRT WITH ME AGAIN
oh my god.. alan... LOOK SO... SCRUMPTIOUS in this episode. WE HAVENT SEEN HIM IN SO LONG SO THIS WAS JUST LIKE A REUNION EPISODE FOR THE ALAN FANGIRLS
honestly, ritsu.... kinda irritated me in this episode. like... he was just so... overstimulating. like i had to skip through his parts because he kept yapping & yapping. but i know, he means well but maybe for me, i kinda dont like it when someone is so PUSHY on their opinion and force their idealogy on someone.
anyways, taiga. just why.
but i feel he has a plan. he has a good plan. i think. well, i like to think that. but i hope its not gonna go like how he randomly solves it and the episode ends. i want everyone him (if its possible) to work together with everyone else.
HAKUUUUUUUUUUU đ
he is being so suspicious but he is trying his best (i think)
but i really think he is the rogue.
BTW RED EARRING HAKU IS NOT THERE BUT CUTE EARRINGS HAKU ???? AAAAAAAAAAA
im foaming from the mouth.
i kinda didnt understand the first trial game because too much words but the second game was good.
alot of brain power.
if it was me, i would have just jumped and gave up LMAO
anyways, WHATS WITH THE ALONE TIME FLIRTING HELLO ????? PLEASE IM TRUING TO BREATHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Haven't played the new waves of love episode yet, but i'm expecting lots of taiga screen time with him bonding with mc (AND ELIAS NOT RUINING ANY CHANCE OF TAIGA OPENING UP)
And also i'm hoping for one of the buttons of alan's shirt to pop đđŤŚ
OH AND THE BUTTON SHOULD HIT ELIAS IN THE EYE SHSHSSHZHHZHZ
Jin is trying to get closer to you.
The problem is that he has no idea how.
So he asks Tohma and the second years for advice.
"She keeps fidgeting around me and apologizing for nothing... It's pissing me off."
Tohma
âHave you tried smiling, captain?âÂ
âWanna die?âÂ
âI donât mean it as an insult,â he says with a sly grin. âBut showing a different side of yourself may help open her heart to you.âÂ
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Youâre in his room again.Â
âHey servant.âÂ
You look up. Chills run up and down your spine immediately.Â
Why are his lips doing that? Why is he baring his teeth?Â
âI-Iâm sorry,â the words spill out. âDid I...do something wrong?âÂ
Jinâs âsmileâ slowly disappears.
Fail.Â
Later that nightâŚ
âShe apologized the second I smiled at her.âÂ
Tohma nearly chokes on his tea.Â
Lucas
âHmm.â Lucas thinks deeply, hand resting on his chin. âI believe sheâs afraid of you because your actions are very brute-like.âÂ
âHuh?â Jin is already irritated, but seeing Lucas completely sincere, he listens.Â
âYou see, I constantly tell Kaito and MC that Iâll protect them. And I make sure that my actions align with that promise.âÂ
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Youâre out on a mission with Jin. His presence is always intimidating. But today, itâs somehow worse.Â
âStay within five feet of me at all times,â he says with a frown.Â
And he makes sure you do.Â
Wherever you go, he follows close behind like a massive guard dog. Every person that walks by, every shadow in the alleyway gets glared at.Â
âUhhh. Are you ok?â you ask carefully.Â
Jin looks at you, or more like accidently glares at you. Â
âS-Sorry. Itâs nothing.âÂ
Now heâs confused why youâre apologizing.Â
âIf you have something to say, say it.âÂ
âOhâŚitâs just that,â you laugh nervously, âyouâre so jittery, itâs making me anxious.âÂ
Jin goes still.Â
Fail.Â
Later on the missionâŚ
Lucas asks how it went.Â
âShe said my presence makes her anxious.âÂ
â...Oh dear."
Kaito
âMaybe beingâŚnicer?âÂ
âWhatâd you say, you brat?âÂ
âKyaa,â Kaito yelps. âI-Iâm sorry.âÂ
Jin shakes his head, massaging his forehead from the stress.Â
â...No. Continue.âÂ
âY-You know,â Kaito says cautiously, âlike wording things prettier. Saying please and thank you.âÂ
___
You bring over a cup of tea and accidentally spill it.Â
âAre you dumb? Whyâd youââ Jin abruptly stops himself. His expression twists like heâs physically fighting for his life. âI meanâŚâ The words sound stiff. Awkward. âEverybody makes mistakes.âÂ
Silence.
Somehow that scares you even more.Â
âI-Iâm sorry, Iâll get more immediately!âÂ
You scurry away.Â
___
âBring that over here.â He pauses. â...Please.âÂ
Your hands shake slightly as you set it down like he might explode at any second.
Jin looks at you.Â
âThank you.âÂ
Your eyes widen.Â
Is he possessed by an anomaly or something???
Fail.
After thatâŚ
Kaito screams as he sees a figure rapidly approaching him down the hallway. Â
It's a pissed off Jin.
âIt didnât work. Come back here, you brat.âÂ
Someone have successfully deciphered what Kyklos said at the beginning of Who Killed Robin? Act II! I'll try to explain as best as I can but please do note that I'm just relaying the information.
Full credit goes to the brilliant mind of Fujino-san on Twitter! You can read/retweet the related post in question here.
First, I want you to see how Kyklos' lines are written in the original Japanese text. I'll also attach the English version for comparison.
Have you ever downloaded any text file in Japanese but when you opened it, they're all garbled, undecipherable text? That's most likely because the original JP text is encoded using Shift JIS and your computer couldn't read itä¸as most non-Japanese device do.
Kyklos' lines in Japanese are actually the result of an SJIS (old, deprecated) decoder trying to read a UTF-8 (modern) encoded string thus, it resulted in a garbled text. All you have to do is convert them back into the UTF-8 encoding and it will be readable. Here is the result, courtesy to Fujino-san:
English translation:
Guider: Oh, dear Master ......Can you hear my voice? I have brought you the Queen.
âť I translated ćĄĺ äşş directly as it is but I'm not very sure if I capture the nuance right. "Guider" here is as in a navigator, an escort, the person who can guide you from one place to another.
Fujino-san had also confirmed that the displayed text on the English version is simply the result of trying to open an SJIS encoded text on a non-Japanese PC. So it's not the result of JP text â EN translation â garbled text, they're both actually encrypting the same Japanese text! Simply put:
JP â UTF-8 encoded text being opened as SJIS
EN â opening an SJIS encoded text on a computer outside Japan
Below is my personal thoughts regarding this revelation:
All this time we all thought that Kyklos is the last boss. That she is THE Big Bad and, in a way, MC's "goal". But now that we know she's basically just an escort and there's the existence of a "Master", this opened up to new possibilities. We used to wonder why would the Kyklos cursed MC in the first place and now we have a tiny bit of light to this. The Kyklos is working for someone else but... just who is this entity that the Kyklos refers to as her "Master"?
The way the shadows started clapping at MC's arrival, how the Kyklos spoke as if addressing a royalty... How is MC the "Queen"? Who (or perhaps "what") is supposed to be her subjects?
After recontextualizing the situation, I thought the cut off word is "She"ä¸like when you capitalize the pronouns of higher/divine beings. But the cut off JP word is "ăˇ" (shi, in Katakana) and I'm not sure if "Here stands She" is correct grammarly anyway so I think I was off base. Still, due to the capitalization in English, I'd like to think that it either stands for a name or perhaps a title.
To end this post, I'll bring up how Fujino-san pointed out that some of the compounds of the garbled text could form the word "Kusanagi" (highlighted below). It's probably just a coincidenceä¸as Fujino-san admitted as wellä¸but it's still quite an astonishing coincidence if true. Just as astonishing as how the date when MC were cursed is also the night of a new moon.
