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[DeKaFu]

Japanese writing and how things are pronounced are a little different. Phonemes ending with an "u" sound are by convention often the place holder for an unvocalized sound. Think a syllable boundary between two consonants in English. "Batman" would be written "Ba-tu-ma-n" in Japanese but still pronounced "Batman". For example in Paranoia Agent, the villain is always stated as "Shonen Bat", not "Shonen Batu", but the word "bat" here would in fact be written with the syllables "Ba" and "tu". Say "BAT" in English and notice that no matter what you do there's a slight hiss of air after the final "T". That slight exhalation of air is what the "u" in Japanese "tu" actually signifies. English also has that sound, we just don't write it down so we forget it exists.

This is a good explanation, but you unfortunately picked an example that's an exception and therefore wrong.

There is no "Tu" syllable in Japanese. It is replaced by "Tsu", and is never used to represent hard T sounds in loanwords. Instead, "To" is used. "Battoman" is how Batman is spelled, and "Shounen Batto". It's still generally voiced in a reduced way when they're trying to say an English word, though. D is a modification of T in Japanese, so the same goes for it. Bird = "Baado", Bed = "Beddo" etc.

[Twinwolf]

Episode 10 of Madoka Magica.

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[Reelya]

Japanese writing and how things are pronounced are a little different. Phonemes ending with an "u" sound are by convention often the place holder for an unvocalized sound. Think a syllable boundary between two consonants in English. "Batman" would be written "Ba-tu-ma-n" in Japanese but still pronounced "Batman". For example in Paranoia Agent, the villain is always stated as "Shonen Bat", not "Shonen Batu", but the word "bat" here would in fact be written with the syllables "Ba" and "tu". Say "BAT" in English and notice that no matter what you do there's a slight hiss of air after the final "T". That slight exhalation of air is what the "u" in Japanese "tu" actually signifies. English also has that sound, we just don't write it down so we forget it exists.

This is a good explanation, but you unfortunately picked an example that's an exception and therefore wrong.

There is no "Tu" syllable in Japanese. It is replaced by "Tsu", and is never used to represent hard T sounds in loanwords. Instead, "To" is used. "Battoman" is how Batman is spelled, and "Shounen Batto". It's still generally voiced in a reduced way when they're trying to say an English word, though. D is a modification of T in Japanese, so the same goes for it. Bird = "Baado", Bed = "Beddo" etc.

Oh yeah sorry you're right. it's shounen ba-to. So a silent 'o' is used when needed.

[Twinwolf]

And now Episode 11.

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*Indistinct screaming and sobbing, somehow at the same time.*

[Reelya]

Watch a show to cheer yourself up next. I recommend Air or Angel Beats or AnoHana. It's amazing how many cheerful and uplifting animes begin with "A".

[Orange Wizard]

Ah, Angel Beats. The only anime that I would recommend while utterly despising the ending.

[Sindain]

Watch a show to cheer yourself up next. I recommend Air or Angel Beats or AnoHana. It's amazing how many cheerful and uplifting animes begin with "A".

You're a terrible human being.

[Twinwolf]

Watch a show to cheer yourself up next. I recommend Air or Angel Beats or AnoHana. It's amazing how many cheerful and uplifting animes begin with "A".

You're a terrible human being.

It's fine; I've watched Angel Beats, and it being on that list was enough to tip me off about the rest.

Also;

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*Uncontrollable sobbing*

[Flying Dice]

Ah, Angel Beats. The only anime that I would recommend while utterly despising the ending.

The ending-ending or the post-credits ending?

[Orange Wizard]

Ah, Angel Beats. The only anime that I would recommend while utterly despising the ending.

The ending-ending or the post-credits ending?

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Basically everything after the two-thirds mark where it went all friend-euthanasia

[Flying Dice]

Ah, Angel Beats. The only anime that I would recommend while utterly despising the ending.

The ending-ending or the post-credits ending?

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Basically everything after the two-thirds mark where it went all friend-euthanasia

Ah. So basically everything after

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it stopped being a slice-of-life comedy with a strange choice of setting.

[Spehss _]

Finally got around to starting Yuru Yuri Season 3. Fun things are fun. Yurus are yuru.

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I kinda miss the Akarin opening though.

[Reelya]

Ah, Angel Beats. The only anime that I would recommend while utterly despising the ending.

The ending-ending or the post-credits ending?

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Basically everything after the two-thirds mark where it went all friend-euthanasia

While the final plot twist was already planned out, Angel Beats was apparently cut down during planning from a much longer show to ~13, so they had to fast-track some events to finish it up in time:

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each character is meant to have addressed some aspect of their life before they died, and that's meant to be the only way you can move on. While this was true for the first few characters, and was also true of Kanade right at the end, a whole lot of extra people needed to disappear in a hurry so they were basically able to "move on" to their next life without going through the complex soul-searching and resolution process, just by deciding they would. WTF was up with that? That just breaks the entire premise of the show. So we basically never get the inside scoop on why most of the main characters were even there.

[Furtuka]

Apparently in the universe of Concrete Revolutio the Beetles have magic guitars that make people high and turn into hippies if they listen to them live, and give people superpowers if they hit the strings in a certain way.

Have I mentioned how much I love this show?

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In the actual plot department, from the conversation with Fuurouta at the end it seems like future Jiro is trying to make a superhuman team to rebel against the Bureau.

[miauw62]

My best friend likes anime but doesn't like humanity has declined, what can I do about this? :V