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(1/2) hello, I'm a huge fan of your blog (your musings on the original versions of persona have helped me understand the games so much better than I would have with only the localizations) and I was wondering something about the japanese script for persona 4. during naoto's confrontation with her shadow, does the japanese version refer to her desire to "be a man" with terms that specifically/explicitly mean ADULT men, rather just male?
(2/2) naoto’s insecurity with her age is a big aspect of her shadow but it’s never focused on in the western fandom because of, I assume, how low context english is and how many meanings the word “man” can really have.
Ahh, I usually avoid talking about Naoto’s gender here, because of the minefield of flame-potential the topic has proven to be in the past, but I guess I can address this.
I think what you are expecting to hear from me is that there’s a significant translation difference between the Japanese and English versions of the scene, which isn’t the case. However, what there is is a significant cultural difference. In fact, it actually relates to a Social Justice topic I rarely see people touch upon when it comes to Naoto, which is a darn shame, because it’s a whole lot more important to her character than the ones I do see discussed, and that’s simply: Lacking female media representation.
do you have any aaside characters that you headcanon as yandere?
oh THANK YOU for asking me this question. I've been wanting to talk about this for the longest time.
After clicking "read more" you will see me talking about some graphic stuff. I DO NOT PROMOTE and CONDONE THESE YANDERE BEHAVIOR IN REAL LIFE. and if you are a minor please stay out of this one. TY!
I think you saw it coming already but everyone in epsiphi are the closest to being yandere. Just look at the way they behave around each other and their music style in general.
Little brat Shu won't even think twice on making you his personal toy. Oh you're crying? Cry some more, your tears are always a sight to behold. The more intense his behavior affects you, the more excited he will become. But don't break too easily, will you? It's going to be reaaaaaaally boring and also bothersome. To Reiji at least. We all know he will be the one to clean up Shu's mess after all. Shu will literally treat you just the way he treat his dog, but the punishment you're going to receive if you don't behave the way he wants will be harsher than that of his dog.
Haruka. He's arrogant, insecure, and, as much as he deny it, extremely lonely. He won't go as far to kidnap and stuff on day 1 but your freedom will surely be taken away from you. You can't look at other guy ESPECIALLY his twin, you can't talk to any guy either online or in real life, you have to report your everyday activities, and you can't stand still not giving him affection or else he will treat way harsher with you. Haruka expects affection even if he treats you badly. Bet he doesn't even realize what he's doing to you is controlling at all. Can he just at least have something he can call his own? For once in his life.
Kanata is the all happy and smiley and clingy yet one of the most dangerous yandere out there. You think that person is cute? They will be found with multiple stabbings on the face so you'll no longer find them cute. Did someone pull a prank and hurt you? Kanata can play pranks too! Just 10 times more dangerous version of it. He's also not afraid to document his actions for keepsake, though he doesn't understand why you were screaming when he showed them to you. It was his way of loving you, too protect you too. Why are you scared of him now? Shouldn't you be kissing him right now, even with the blood staining his hands?
Tadaomi will stalk you before making a move. No question. If you happen to go to the same school as him, expect to see him in almost every activity. In the library, you will accidentally bump at him after stumbling to reach a book. In cafeteria, he will sit at the side table closest to you. In etiquette class (let's pretend it exists), find your teacher pairing you up with him again and again despite your protests. He is everywhere yet also nowhere. He simply can't help but wanting to know more about you. Why are you frowning at your phone? Why were your face all stiff after reading the anonymous letter found in your locker? Why are you more quiet today? Is it because you're scared someone is watching your every move? All he wrote in that letter was how beautiful you are. From the way you smile to the way you speak, everything about you he finds it ethereal and it peaked his curiosity. He wonders what's the look on your face going to be if he "force" you to stay in his little golden cage. What will you sound like when speaking his name like a prayer?
Now, now, Reiji will NOT hesitate to lock you up. Why? So that a certain demon won't pry on you. Every fiber of your being is his to control, not that brat. But the thing about "moving in" with him is that everything is taken care of, you will never lift a hand to do anything. No more doing laundry, no more thinking about what to eat, no more sleepless night doing homework. Yet at the same time there's no more karaoke with your friend, no more going to concerts, no more internet. You are completely isolated and the only human contact is that clean freak who kidnapped you clean (pun intended). He seemed stony most of the time, even annoyed after band practice. The most softest he looked was when you were forced to let him feed you dinner. Or when he spoke with you in general. Surely you won't be planning to run away from him, right? Every furniture in the room is exactly the same as the ones in your room. Just with better quality and more expensive. A paradise for you and him. He won't be afraid to hurt your loved ones if you act like a brat too. You know the shady things he do won't be known by the public, right? Your only choice is to stay with him, no questions asked.
Next is Jun. Or more like ZACK is the yandere. Like imagine him diagnosed with actual split personality. One day ZACK is in control and the next time Jun would find you crying and tied up on his bed. Jun would literally shit in his pants not knowing what to do. The same thing would happen again and again to you, always you and no other. Every time Jun tried to talk to you, you would whimper and corner yourself away from him as if he is the most despicable human being (Jun agree with this, honestly). Jun would let you go but ZACK would find you again. No matter where you are he WILL find you. And maybe find a way to completely dominate this body so that loser Jun won't interfere with ZACK'S plan.
Hi all! I wrote an analysis of Shu and I wish that you can give it a read! These are my interpretations and theories too complicated to be put into pictures like I usually do. Please also read the disclaimer and conclusion!
One topic often debated about Frisk is the question of how old they are. With the fandom throwing around numbers anywhere between 5 and 16 without any real evidence, this post will attempt to give the most accurate answer possible based on game data and real world science.
There are three factors that can help determining Frisk’s age.
The first one is their physical appearance. The second one is their mentality, this ranges from Frisk’s personality to the things that they know or don’t or to their decision making process. The third one is how other characters treat Frisk and what they expect of them.
We know how average kids of any given age are like both mentally and physically, by comparing what we know of Frisk to this data, we can make an estimation of their age.
Been rereading "Cheese in the trap" (my beloved) and while commenting decided to talk a bit here.
"I hate when it's too loud"
"It's not fair"
"I want a payback"
- are things Jung could say to adults, but honesty can come with a price of punishment for having 'improper' reactions and Juyong pretty much gave the evidence of this to Jung. This is were Juyong's advice comes in: acting mature and just smile works wonders. Indeed, weaponizing a smile to mask his intentions helps Jung reach his true goal ("right the wrong") while he escapes the expected societal response. It takes some getting over himself but in the end this proves to be a reliable sacrifice: one successful scheme was the beginning of a strategical thinking for years to come.
Now, if Jung openly "acted out", he'd probably be chastised all while he felt wronged. But perhaps, if addressed properly by an adult, he'd get guidance for navigating complex situations and emotions while also validation of his feelings when he felt like he was treated poorly by the little girl.
Conflict/mistakes are learning opportunities and they require proper guidance. They are important parts of our lives, when we are children especially.
Avoiding conflict may result in stagnation. Lack of guidance and acceptance may affect one's openness to dialogue.
In the present we follow Jung who is a Lost Child with unresolved urges confined by a crafted "acceptable adult" exterior supported by his intelligence and observation skills that helps Jung to get by.
Childhood shaped him and in a way he can't escape it. Only grow from it. But aren't we all?
It's no wonder Jung's gradual growth partially stems from Seol and their relationship. Seol is someone who recognized and understood his feelings, was able to see his unpleasant sides and saw them as human, "normal", - all despite him hiding them. She is also someone who confronted Jung on his behaviour and choices no matter how hard he tried to hush up the impending ever repeated conflicts. Even if it's a tough (ongoing) journey, Jung made effort to grow out of old habbits and Seol played a huge role in it.
He Supposedly treated Jung's father he knows what he is like but he throw a random diagnose and planted the seeds of doubt and worry based in one act he saw while passing Without a proper test or examination or watching for symptoms what kind of professor is that?
For me he used Jung's unusual behaviour to suggest the importance of siblings like relationships ( he was sick at the moment coughing alot) he manipulated Jung dad into taking his grandchildren in starting the never ending cycle of manipulation .
This is for the 5 other active people in this fandom but I have the full extra in the Cheese in the Trap comic book of when Jung’s jealousy towards Euntaek began! I’ll summarize each page for anyone curious!
Basically it’s Euntaek’s bday so he goes around asking people for snacks. Bora asks if he ate seaweed soup since it’s his bday and he says “of course!” He keeps going around collecting snacks and then Jung, Kyunghawn, and Sangchul show up. Euntaek immediately pulls up to Jung and asks for food as Kyunghwan asks if him and Sangchul are invisible.
Euntaek gets the food and Kyunghwan says hi to Seoul who is hiding behind Euntaek trying to avoid Jung. She’s found out by Jung and she’s super awkward and reluctant to say hi. They then talk about how Euntaek did this last year as well.
Jung notices how Seoul is holding onto Euntaek and reminisces on when Seoul came to Jung for help thinking he was Eutaek.
Jung’s like “Me and him look alike?” And then thinks about how they do have similar hairstyles and height.
Euntaek feeling very satisfied heads off to class. Kyunghwan then tells Bora that they’re very close to Euntaek and that he’s jealous of Euntaek but also not. Bora goes that there’s all kinds of friendships in the world. Kyunghwan then goes “NO WAY Euntaek is definitely going to end up dating one of you guys . WHO’S IT GOING TO BE SEOL? BORA?” To which Bora denies profusely while Seol sort of just stands back.
Jung notices that Euntaek’s bag has ripped open and is about to say something but then Seol and Bora intervene. The way he looks at Seol even though Bora is literally covering his mouth omgg. Seol tells him to not bother them and Bora whips out a pocket knife. Kyunghwan is aghast saying how could they do that to a guy like him.
Bora and Seol are trying to hold in their laughs and Kyunghwan is further aghast while Bora and Seol say “because it’s fun.” Seol and Bora leave and Kyunghwan says that he takes back what he said about one of them dating Euntaek. He shouts “excessive!!”
Later Bora and Seol surprise Euntaek by stating that they picked up all the snacks/drinks that fell out of his bag. Euntaek asks if that was really necessary and Seol says they have another surprise and whips out a cake.
Seol says they made the cake at Bora’s house and that the mini figure of him was custom made. Euntaek is touched and everyone wishes him a happy birthday.
Kyunghwan who witnessed this says that he takes back what he said earlier and that one of the two will definitely end up dating Euntaek. Jung asks why he thinks that. Kyunghwan says that even though Euntaek is a bit on foolish he’s pretty good looking and that in his opinion there’s no such thing as “just friendship” between boys and girls. Then Kyunghwan goes “don’t you think?” To which Jung goes “I guess, their actions do seem a bit excessive.” We know where Jung’s jealousy for Euntaek seriously started lmao.
I absolutely love this extra! It’s especially fun getting more of sneak peek of Jung’s thoughts before he ended up approaching Seol and where his jealousy of Euntaek stems from. Sorry if my translation is a little hard to understand! Let me know your thoughts or if you’re confused on anything!
i really like akiham because of how real the buildup feels. like akihiko has multiple mental blocks to work through before he can accept that someone actually genuinely likes him and wants to be with him and he really does grow as a person, and has to before he can let femc into his life. the writers didn't put the romance before the final ranks (which a lot of other persona romances do), like she openly flirts with him 3 or 4 times and he just can't admit how he feels because he honestly doesn't think he deserves any of this. and he overcomes that with femc's help but without it feeling like she's swooping in to fix him. and then the final links are really sweet and you get to see sides of them both you didn't see before. probably top 3 persona romances imo
[Image: fanart of Utena Tenjou and Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena in a simplified cartoony style with flat colors. At the top are drawings of Utena and Anthy facing each other with their hands to their chests, Utena shouting with determination while Anthy looks concerned. Between them are quotes reading, “wait for me, Utena!” and “Himemiya, take my hand!” Underneath this is a top-down view of the two holding hands across the divide of their inverted circular bed, a close-up shot of their hands reaching toward each other with the fingers touching, and a panel of Anthy looking blankly at the viewer as she grips onto Utena’s shoulder and presses into her back.
At the bottom is a large drawing of Utena pulling a sword from Anthy’s chest as the latter, wearing her Rose Bride dress, leans back with Utena’s other arm around her waist. To the left of this are drawings of leafy branches taking on a humanoid shape as they hold up Anthy’s school uniform, the Sword of Dios, and Chu-Chu smiling mischievously. To the right are drawings of a smiling Anthy doll standing with Skipper from Madagascar with epaulettes and a white rose attached to his chest, Utena and Anthy standing together in their school uniforms with their skin and facial features replaced entirely with darkness, and a small rose. End description.]
Even before the whole lavenoor being exposed for grooming incident. Some of you need to realise that lavenoor was always problematic in both her tumbler posts and in her writing.
First she always says those who read yandere are sick and disgusting people even if they read as a coping mechanism or as a source of fiction or just for simple entertainment, as if......her three most popular and most of her fanfictions aren't YANDERE X READER! She is basically calling her own audience stupid and disgusting. We all know no one is reading her fics for social commentary.
Second , she mischaracterises the original characters all the time and even disrespect the source material. Tell me how is Snow white, a kind hardworking and a romantic girl , TURNED INTO A HORNY MURDEROUS SIMP?! And don't even get me started on Beau, Rampion,Arien,and Jasmir. Why is Belle who is literally just a book girl who's modern equivalent would be a tumbler girlie is this genius sapriosexual? And on top of that this "genius " ain't even that much of a genius, at most he is slightly smarter than the average modern person but not as smart as the story wants you to think. Why is Jasmine, who is very confident, sassy and snarky this doormat of a prince, even the sultan is done dirty , why is she this cunning women who uses her son when in the orignal disney version the sultan is such a goofball. She doesn't even do the stories justice. She make sit seem like disney has non con in sleeping beauty and snow white , when in the actual movie it was made clear that it was the only way to save them and the prince in sleeping beauty knew about it because the fairies told him and the prince in snow white was just giving a farewell kiss to her since it was implied that they knew each other and were lovers. Would she rather have prince Philip not save Aurora because she didn't give him her consent? It's not like he has to have sex with her in order to wake her up just a little peck on the lips. She said that ariels main motivation was prince Eric but no from the very beginning she wanted to be with humans, prince Eric was just a bonus.
And beauty and the beast . She said it was romanticising Stockholm syndrome. She didnt even do the most basic research about this movie or the mental illness. Belle wasn't kidnapped she made the choice to stay with the beast for her father, and even then the beast was the one who changed in the end not Belle. Belle only liked the beast when he turned in a better person. And the fact lavenoor had the audacity to act like the beast was a problematic character when she redeemed the MYSOGONISTIC GASTON WHO ONLY SEES BELLE AS A TROPHY AND MADE HIM INTO A UWU LESBIAN! WHY?
And even the side characters and the og princes are done dirty. Why is rampion'sl mother having an affair with male mother gothel? Why is the og alladin seen as this superficial guy who only cares about looks as if the mc didnt like the love interests for their looks at first as well. Why are the fairies from sleeping beauty judgmental old hags, why are the princes non con perverts? Why??
And at last her writing and the mc. To be honest , I only read iaptbap because it was one of the very few disney x reader fanfics that was extremely long. I didnt really liked it all that much cause it was way too preachy for me and it was like the story was telling about consent like I am 5. The mc always preaches about consent but kisses Tyrian and lady eboshi without their consent and did the same with arien. And she straight up harassed tyrian in his arc. Lavenoor makes the seem like mc is this unpopular girl when everyone either lusts/loves her or hates her no in between . And even lavenoor as a person herself is problematic. She always acts like her words are the gospel truth and refuses to even hear a different opinion and treats criticisms as hates and has the audacity to claim anyonewho write a disney genderbend story is copying her. First of all, it it's a FANFICTION ,second of all that specific genre has existed for a long time while not the most popular it is still pretty known.
And the way she treats other cultures in stories like representation is the only thing that matters about them and not insert actual cultural and historucsl context for some reason. The culture and societal expectations in ancient arabia and europe are very different but she never implemented these .She always preaches about representation but there is very little representation in her own story even though disney has other poc stories and characters as well. Lilo and stitch,esmerelda, Mulan, megara ect. But she says she won't do mulan and emeralda because one is sexualised and the other is a feminist icon . As if jasmine ain't both of it yet she took away all of Jasmine personality and makes her live in a matriarchal society even thought the patriarchy isn't even a focal point in the movie. And she also disrespected arab culture, even before Islam Arab people were always modest due to it being their culture and dur to the severe dry heat of the desert. But jasmine is wearing reavealing clothes in the movie and in this fanfic even though it is historically inaccurate. She doesnt even represent any of the cultures in her story accurately . France, Germany, Norway, Italy, Arabia, Luisiana have so much culture but there is little to none in her story. And why is jasmine's story the only one that is actually affected by the genderbend? In the other arcs the genderbending didn't hatter much but gor the only Asian character it did.
Ahd the dialogue felt so unnatural as well. In winter's arc when mc and winter went to the dwarfs cottage mc wad trying to convince the dwarfs to let winter stay. She od it by basically saying since the female dwarfs are working in a male dominated field they must not care abouts gender roles and thus wouldn't care about winter's gender and they should take him as a housekeeper. Like shut up girl! You don't need to say all that much just , "say since you probably don't want to cook or clean after a long day at work winter can do it for you." That is it. No need to bring up gender. Same with rojos story even he asked her if his cloak is beautiful or not, and she brings up the fact that she likes how gender neutral his cloak is. Just say it's pretty!!
And also why is princess monotone even in this story?it is neither a disney nor a grimm brothers property. I never even watched this movie but the way people talked about it she completely butchered the story. Abd she is also do rude to her own audience like I am pretty sure that she hates them.
And once a fan of hers talked about her getting bullied because of her paleness and lavenoor said that 2hile what she was going through was sad she wasn't a victim of racism. LiKE WHAT!!! Every race and culture in history has been victim of racism and slavery!
There is so much more I can say about iaptbap and lavenoor but this post is getting too long. I just wanted to rant.
New artwork of Franchouchou for the upcoming special Zombieland Saga x Yomiuri Giants collaboration event to be held at the Yomiuri vs. Hiroshima game on September 10th.
From conquering Kyushu to conquering the nation, the cast will be making an appearance the Tokyo Dome to participate in the first pitch.