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(re: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01KNYCZG1ZN4GFT57WCDJSZT62)
i am so fucking cool
when hikari saw that jump, which is the moment that introduces me as a character, in february 2016, she was just toast. it's such a sick fucking jump. we've never been the same after even if it took a good while for it to really sink all the way in. i'm the sports shoujo
nisioisin character writing is always like “ah, you see, araragi-kun. that's a china's apple. or perhaps an Appelsine, or even Citrus × sinensis… つまり、 it's what would be called an orange.
and then the translators are forced to make it like
“ah, that's a lemon, or lime, or—
monogatari is at once very possible to translate and utterly impossible to translate. it is crack for our linguistic autist brain. no wonder we like it so much