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Silvia | Italian | She/her | Ace | Married | Obsessed with: Cute High Earth Defence Club, Free!, Wind Breaker and A Love Too Captivating.

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Thermae, Chest Hair, and Coffee Crimes: Italians in Umatani Anime pt.1

If you're an Umatani anime fan you probably noticed that Italian characters and words appear several times in different series (I wonder if there's an Italy-lover in the team) but I'm here to share my (totally unrequested) take on this from an Italian perspective. 😅

Let's start with the more obvious: the Karls Knights names in Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu HAPPY KISS! Of course we have Fiore Kiss, Stella Kiss, Luna Kiss, Neve Kiss and Spazio Kiss where fiore, stella, luna, neve and spazio are all Italian words. The meaning being: Fiore = flower 🌷, Stella = star ⭐, Luna = moon 🌙, Neve = snow ❄️ and Spazio = space 🌠 (in the sense of the physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere) with no surprise for anyone, I guess 😅 They're shockingly accurate and in the singular form and that's not always a given in foreign shows. Well done Umatani team! 😁

We have this in Italy too. It's the "loves me, loves me not" game. We say: "M'ama, non m'ama"

Going back a little to Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love Love we have the episode with the twin Italian brothers. (s02 ep4) Let's start with their names: Bernardo is definetly an Italian name but not a very popular one. (source) Alan is even less popular. (source) I always thought of it as foreing name in fact! Salvatore, on the other hand, is very popular in the south area of Italy as a name litterally meaning "savior" but it can also be a surname so nothing to complain about here, too. 😊

That's true Yumoto! Your brother taught you well!

As for Alan being jelous of his brother's chest hair… well that's not an Italian trait per se XD More of a personality trait! I never met anyone with a body hair complex but I'm not a very social person 🤣🤣🤣 Italian men and boys are hairy though… More than Japanese men and boys are so… I guess it could make sense? I don't know 🤣

And last but not least we have the figure skating coach from Gekkan Mousou Kagaku (Delusional Monthly Magazine) named Roberto Morricone.

Oops Italian subtitles X°D Roberto is a much more popular name in Italy. (source) It's my dad's name! XD

And Morricone is internationally known as the surname of the famous Italian composer Ennio Morricone. This pairing sound much more familiar to me than the names of the twins in Love Love.

The interesting part is when Roberto enters the cafè and asks the bartender for a double espresso with no sugar. Of course, he IS Italian, so he drinks espresso and not just coffee! We are really proud of our espresso! I'm not kidding! XD

Is this an espresso? The scene is hilarious 'cos Rock is really puzzled by the request and maybe he doesn't have an espresso machine so he serves the poor coach something out of a carton box… I don't even wanna know what that was! Roberto notices right away that that's not what he asked for and clearly doesn't like it! OMG I'm with you Roberto! 🤢

That scene was particularly funny for me 'cos it reminded me of something that happend to my (now) husband when we were in Tokyo in 2015. We were tired for walking all day and he was upset and nervous (I don't really remember why) so we decided to take a break at Starbucks and take advantage of the free wi-fi in the meantime. My husband went to the counter and without even thinking he said in English: "One espresso!" and all the employees looked at him and than stared at each other. They even laugh or something and that made my partner's mood even worse… but then they served him an actual espresso (in the very little cup you tipically serve espresso in) and it was surprisingly good. So in the end he had more luck than coach Roberto Morricone I guess 🤣

And that's all. Kudos to the Umatani team for the good work they made with Italian words and chacters in their series. As an Italian I have (almost) nothing to complain about 🤣 I know this post was not interesting at all... So if you sticked with me 'til the end you have all my appreciation! ❤️💚💙💛🩷 As always sorry for my bad English but now you know it's not my first language! 😅🤣

Read part 2 here

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I managed to take better pictures of the dolls 😅

[magicalgirlsandcerulean]

Happy Binanshi.

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Me: Can you believe I'm reading a manga set during a zombie apocalypse?

My husband: Depends... Are there men who love men in it?

Me: Yup.

My husband: Then yes, I'm not surprised!

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The prettiest boy is here.

Shinkurou

Sousuke

Ushio

Akuta

Aaaand this is the last one for now, I wanna go back to my other project.

But the plan is to make the student council and Rakua, too.

[skybluekagikun]

Wow look at me in first on the leaderboard lmao that will literally never happen again (I just did the battle right as it refreshed for the day)

Also hi @sabagame 👋😁

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The little modern boy was the hardest one to make 🫣

Shinkurou

Narushi

Sousuke

Ushio

😱 Ushio is going to eat those daikons!

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Thank you @skybluekagikun for the tag. I'm really bad at these things, but I'll give it a try! 😅

Last song: Futten Toppa Love is Power (my "driving" playlist is full of anime songs!) Favorite color: Purple (the lighter, the better) Currently watching: I'm catching up on Stranger Things and The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer, plus some seasonal anime. Currently reading: A lot of BL manga! Like a volume a day! Also rereading Sasaki and Miyano / Hirano and Kagiura. Current obsession: Wind Breaker. The current arc is breaking my heart and I can't stop thinking about it. 😭 Currently working on: The Haikara plushies and the Big Boueibu Project.

I'm super bad at taking pictures

Last Google search: I don't remember X°D And I'm pretty sure I just made a res—wait, I searched for the name of a light/pastel purple color. 🙈

I'm supposed to tag 10 people, but I don't really know anyone on Tumblr T^T So maybe @mystofthestars, @thatlittledandere , @lidoxia and anyone else who wants to do this. 💜

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Can you hear him saying "Haikara! Haikara!"?

Narushi

Sousuke

Ushio

Akuta

[ukk0]

🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜

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Procrastinating on my “Big Boueibu Project” by working on another small Boueibu project.

But I’m sure that at some point I’ll procrastinate on the small project by working on the big one… ò_ò

Does that make any sense? 🙈

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Ooops 🫣

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so... how we feeling about the newest chapter?

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It took a while but "mami" is here 😊

Shikurou

Narushi

Ushio

Akuta

[thatlittledandere]

What's your favorite Boueibu OP/ED

Zettai Muteki Fallin' LOVE

I Miss You no 3 Meters

Futten Toppa Love Is Power

Anata wa Haruka Ittousei

Eien Mirai Love You All

Kokoro to Kokoro de

Zettai Saikou Happy Kiss

Warera Kedakaki Edelstein

Everlasting Love Is Life

Haikara de GO

Afterglow In Your Eyes

Voting ended onMar 30

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One down! Four (or 7? Or 8?) more to go.

Shinkurou

Narushi

Sousuke

Akuta

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Procrastinating on my “Big Boueibu Project” by working on another small Boueibu project.

But I’m sure that at some point I’ll procrastinate on the small project by working on the big one… ò_ò

Does that make any sense? 🙈