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[Mindmaker]

Watching Rozen Maiden ~desu

[Chaoswizkid]

I'm excited that Durarara! is coming to Adult Swim tomorrow, since my internet right now is horrifyingly slow. From all of the positive reviews of it here, it should be quite something.

[ToonyMan]

I'm excited that Durarara! is coming to Adult Swim tomorrow, since my internet right now is horrifyingly slow. From all of the positive reviews of it here, it should be quite something.

Shizou?  Shizou.

[FuzzyZergling]

Nice. JJBA is a fun series.
[...]
Also, unless you're getting it from somewhere else than I did, prepare yourself for massive amounts of engrish and generally bad scanlations.

You were right. Arc 1 was awesome, high quality. Arc 2 was still good, but a few chapters out of order. Arc 3 was of horrible quality, and I haven't started Arc 4 yet out of fear.

[quinnr]

Watching Rozen Maiden ~desu

Shugo Chara by the same artists (PEACH-PIT) also has some ~desu in it, but not as much. Just made me laugh a bit when I heard it.

[Neonivek]

Watching Rozen Maiden ~desu

Shugo Chara by the same artists (PEACH-PIT) also has some ~desu in it, but not as much. Just made me laugh a bit when I heard it.

Dang it... What does Desu mean again?

[Chaoswizkid]

Watching Rozen Maiden ~desu

Shugo Chara by the same artists (PEACH-PIT) also has some ~desu in it, but not as much. Just made me laugh a bit when I heard it.

Dang it... What does Desu mean again?

I CAN HAS FIELD THIS QUESTION! I IS PROPERLY EDJAMAKATED TO ANSWER IT!
The suffix '-desu', most commonly pronounced 'des', is used at the end of sentences/words to state 'he/she/it/I/you is/are x'. For example, "Chaoswizkid-desu" would be "I am Chaoswizkid," so long as it was assumed that I am the subject (The proper way of saying that would be "Watashi wa Chaoswizkid-desu."). To my knowledge, the overuse of ~desu and the definition thereof actually means little to nothing, since it doesn't follow this grammatical ruling.

If someone knows more about the whole ~desu thing and its meaning, feel free to speak up about it. I just wanted to be sure that people knew that it stands for something else other than what seems to be word-spam.

[FuzzyZergling]

I always assumed that it was a filler word with no real definable meaning, similar to "the" or "as" in the english language.

[Vector]

Yeah, "desu" is basically "is."  There's a lot of different forms of how to say "is" in Japanese, but "desu" is mostly considered the politeness-neutral one.

So you can say:

"Sore wa nan desu ka?"

[That over there what is, huh?"
[What's that?]

"Kuruma desu."

[Car is.]
[It's a car.]

Or stuff like:

"Sou desu yo ne."
[That way is yup uh-huh]
[Ah, so that's how it is.]


Japanese is fun.

[JoshuaFH]

SO I watched Pom Poko today, finishing off another Miyazaki classic. It was an excellent movie. I greatly recommend seeing it, as it's just an excellently presented story with really great characters, in a very nice story.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The legend of the Tanuki kind of baffles me, since I have no idea why they're supposed to have such huge testicles. So huge, that they act as tool, transportation, weapon, and temporary building material.

I do feel really bad though, because I think that if the Tanukis had played their cards right, they COULD have saved their forest. They just didn't have the correct leadership, planning, education, charisma, or personal restraint to pull it off, inspite of being fantastic, magical creatures.

[Vector]

Apparently the original "Japanese racoons" have pretty big balls, which the Japanese then blew out of proportion to make the animals into serious Symbols of Virility.

[JoshuaFH]

Apparently the original "Japanese racoons" have pretty big balls, which the Japanese then blew out of proportion to make the animals into serious Symbols of Virility.

I mean, like, seriously, I can never look at Super Mario World's cape the same way ever again.

[Chaoswizkid]

The Tanuki discussion reminds me of Shaman King... oh Shaman King... how the hell did you ever end up as a Saturday morning cartoon...

[Neonivek]

Apparently the original "Japanese racoons" have pretty big balls, which the Japanese then blew out of proportion to make the animals into serious Symbols of Virility.

Do they? I thought it was just a connection they made to old people.

Since they have the animal and the mythological creature of the same name... that I dare not spell out of fear of spelling it incorrectly.

[Acanthus117]

Code Geass Episode 9, or Lelouch kicks things into high gear.

Spoiler: Spoilers for episode 9 (click to show/hide)

Seriously, Lelouch is pretty smart, but I'd like it a little more if he could tone down the dramatics what the hell am I saying this is Lelouch we're talking about. I like the whole "Lol I rescue prisoners but if you attack me you're boned" bit, and the giant rail-shotgun was fucking awesome.

Also, Cornelia's collar thing is still ridiculously stupid-looking.

Well, if I was him I'd probably have shot Euphie, but that's only because she's sub-viceroy of Area 11 and because I'd do it for the lulz. But anyways since she's family and not (from what I have seen) a totally insane shithead focused on gaining the throne it's perfectly understandable that Lulu didn't cap her ass. (also, the flashback of Cornelia and Euphemia playing together was sooo cute)

Did I mention that the Black Knight uniforms are awesome? They remind me of the black uniforms the Military Police wear in Fullmetal Alchemist, but awesomer.

Another thing to note that the juxtaposition of Milly talking about arranged marriage and 'renewing the Ashford family name' and telephones and giant robots and shit is rather jarring.

Hrm, maybe I'll watch Rozen Maiden too.