Speaking of which, am I only one who thinks the act of consoling sounds really saccharine in Chinese even though the words and sentiments expressed are pretty much exactly the same as an English speaker would use?
Creticus said: am I only one who thinks the act of consoling sounds really saccharine in Chinese even though the words and sentiments expressed are pretty much exactly the same as an English speaker would use?
I think it might just be Hy's writing style. He's so very verbose.
=3= Nuuuuuh, again that damned Komarisa stealing the easiness of others indirectly! That should be Patchouli's Place! PATCHOULI'S PLACE! YUNYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Not really, I was referring to the words that the 'big sister' is using.
She's basically saying, 'What is it, little Marisa? Did you have a nightmare again? Don't be afraid, big sister is here. Let's go to sleep together, alright?' Which is fairly normal for words to console a child that has woken up from a nightmare, but sounds (to me) really cheesy when it's in Chinese instead of English.
It's the repetition of 'Don't be afraid' twice that really gets me.
JusticeItEasy said: =3= Nuuuuuh, again that damned Komarisa stealing the easiness of others indirectly! That should be Patchouli's Place! PATCHOULI'S PLACE! YUNYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
JusticeItEasy said: The Patchouli that warned everybody about "Popular" Marisa's lies, but has to shut up because of the Mushroom making a case against her.
For me she's like the only yu deserving a good ending in this story full of scum manjuus and annoying too dumb to live pastries.
Oh, that Patchouli. You've a good point.
zidana123 said: Hmm... but if you say it out loud, it's 'bu pa bu pa,' which is even shorter than 'don't be afraid' :(
Right, but the repetition makes it sound really childish. Which is pretty appropriate when speaking to a immature yukkuri, but nonetheless annoying. Not as bad as yukkuri slurring though - I don't think there's much that's worse than yukkuri slurring in Chinese.
JIE: even if she did deserve it, that Patchouli's screen time is too short for any further development IMO. She's just a step forward from the other mob characters such as the yukkuri crushed during the escape.
Let us have a moment of silence then, for the Patchouli that laid down her life on the day of the Yukkuri Escape Incident, a martyr of manju. May she find peace in her eternal rest.
I don't think she's dead, my problem is that I prefered her to be with the miss, komarisa is too dumb to live and her ""well meaning"" attitude didn't make up for the fact that way to many of her actions leads to problems and suffering.
It's like those movies that dumb people get others killed, at some point all the well meaning intention of the world won't make you sympathize with the idiot that got so many others killed or facing suffering.
JusticeItEasy said: Komarisa reached that point for me...
Jumping out to defend the only thing that seems worth to defend in this comic, what has the Marisa exactly done from your point of view? I only have seen her bring suffering to the Reimu (Who might not even have been adopted in the first place if it wasnt for her).
Its easier to be negative, for starters they are Yukkuri, they are not meant to be very smart, let alone Koyukkuri's, Good ideas can have bad results, but you cant get good results from bad ideas (on the long run at least)
moi86 said: >Jumping out to defend the only thing that seems worth to defend in this comic.
>not defending nice Patchouli's right to be with the miss instead of retardo Komarisa. Wut?
Now being serious and putting aside the silly "implying >" thingies.
The problem with Komarisa is that she's stupid even in Koyukkuri standars, with some notorious self entitlement and whose ideas just make things harder for others, Forcing her mother to adopt a koyukkuri when their life was already hard enough being 2 strays with no home, food or promising future, the whole restaurant slip with koreimu that gives her extra suffering while Komarisa unknowingly save herself from this suffering and Finally she ends up joining Popular Marisa's plan.
Her actions never brought any good, at least in the abyuse storyline, In the good end storyline though, I would agree that in the end her actions in the long run may had helped reimu get a new family (Though I would still find her annoying).
It probably doesn't help that Hy's artstyle, in my opinion, makes yukkuris extra obnoxious looking when they show more expressions than the "stand by" content face.
...Komarisa is a baby, though. I understand speaking of "retarded" for adult yus (because, well, they are), but Little Marisa isn't too far off the curve for a baby of...every kind of animal of its age. Careless, wants attention, cries a lot. That the MOTHER (and yu parents in general) is also too stupid to direct her is a different matter.
I had seen baby yu's way more smarter and attentive than this Komarisa, and they weren't geniuses or anything, they just payed more attention to their surrounding and were slightly more empathic than Komarisa, she really is FAR from being the brightest crayon in the box, doesn't help that, like her mother, she loses perk just to suffer further (breaking her teeths trying to eat grass.)
Though Yeah, Reimu and Marisa weren't very smart or good parents either, even if Reimu meant well. Ironically Komarisa inherited the "extremely stupid but well meaning" aspect of her mother, better than being a horrible jerkass like her father I guess...
Whos this patchy you're talking about anyways? the one that got food poisoned when her owner decided to buy cheap food substitute (atta boy)? or the one that just happened to be "there" when they came in the adoption center (which for all we know, escaped along with the other "smart yukkuri's" unless I missed something.
We are over analyzing this, but I think you are confusing stupidity with ignorance If this were a stupidity case, the komarisa would have those moments we all love like the ones from the koreimu look at panel 188 post #48192 , "Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever"
moi86 said: Whos this patchy you're talking about anyways?
Didn't you read my previous comments?
JusticeItEasy said: The Patchouli that warned everybody about "Popular" Marisa's lies, but has to shut up because of the Mushroom making a case against her.
For me she's like the only yu deserving a good ending in this story full of scum manjuus and annoying too dumb to live pastries.
The Adoption Center tried to reach out to the community, hoping friendly citizens would adopt the yukkuris. But many people felt that "Stray Yukkuris were unsanitary" and would not take the yukkuris in.
Some pet stores offered to take in the yukkuris and sell them as pets, if the Adoption Center didn't charge for them. The yukkuris underwent training and were then sold as pet yukkuris to a Senior Citizen Center to keep the old people company.
Of course, this included Little Marisa.SealedThe escape incident had caused alot of questions for the management of the Adoption Center. Many Yukkuri enthusiasts began to file complaints with the local government in anger. As a result, the local government had the Adoption Center closed for review.
And so, those yukkuris still left in the Adoption Center were left without a home."Yuyu... It's Big Sis... Easy Big Sis... Yuyu..." Little Marisa remembered, it was the very easy Big Sis that was holding her. Big Sis' hands. Big Sis' embrace. Warm and soft, like Mommy's face. No, Big Sis was even easier than Mommy's face.
"Yuyu... yuyu... Little Marisa, what is it? Did you have a nightmare? Don't be afraid, Big Sis is right here. Little Marisa can come and sleep with Big Sis, okay?" Big Sis comforted Little Marisa.A ray of light appeared after she sobbed a few times. Immdiately after, a large pair of hands slowly reached for Little Marisa.
Little Marisa could already no longer remember how many times this pair of large warm hands would reach for her when she was crying, in order to comfort her and remind her of the warmth of her mother.
Gradually, gradually, Little Marisa stopped crying and nestled into the warm pair of hands."YUAAAAAAAAAAA!" Little Marisa was shocked awake from a nightmare. In her dream, her most missed mother had smashed her most adorable little sister into bean paste.
The horrible vision terrified Little Marisa. There was nothing but darkness surrounding her. Little Marisa began to cry and scream.