What not to wear

[louiselux]

You don't have to be in comics fandom to revel in the cracktastic Evolution of a superhero's wardrobe by derryderrydown. See Roy Harper's costume evolve from a really rather sweet miniskirt and washing-up gloves look through the dark ages of camo chaps (!) and trenchcoat, to clingy spandex with boomerang motif!

Alternatively The Inner life of Schwarz by daegaer has crystalline tears, heroin, puppies and other scary things.

I watched an episode of Gensomaden Saiyuki last night with the US dub on it. Why does Hakkai talk like a surfer dude? Why? After the angelic tones of Akira Ishida (did I mention I'd like his voice piped into my inner ear 24/7?) it's a bit hard to take. Some of the dialogue did make me laugh though, so I think I'll persevere with it.

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[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I was a bit surprised by the swearing, because as far as I can tell, going by the subs and the manga translation, Hakkai is quite formal in the way he speaks and if he swears it's not in the subs (which is odd if you think about it, if they swear openly in the dub). So Hakkai does swear? I like that - what does shimatte mean?

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

Uh... ^,^;; El? Help?

It's somewhere between k'so and ch', I can tell you that... I suspect they gave him pretty much an exact translation, but I have no proof. -vOv-

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I never did know what those two words meant and now I've actually been motivated to get off my sorry backside and learn something:-)

I've been poking around on various scary anime translation pages and shimatte seems to be a sort of all purpose mild swear word something like k'so (which it shit?) but a bit less strong.