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[Reelya]

Nothing beats this album title:

Dokidoki Wakuwaku Pamyu Pamyu Revolution Land 2012 in Kira Kira Budōkan

That HAS to be a joke even in Japan.

BTW the singer claims that her full name is ...

Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Kyary for short.

[Leafsnail]

Doubled-up onomatopoeia words are pretty common in Japanese, and not just limited to childish speech/weird anime titles. One of my friends had to learn like 200 of them for a test. For example, to describe how heavily it's raining you can use one of these:
1. shitoshito
2. zaazaa
3. potsupotsu
There's been some research into whether people can work out which word is which without any Japanese knowledge just from the sound. See if you can guess the order from lightest to heaviest

Spoiler: answer (click to show/hide)

Potsupotsu is similar to "pitter patter", IE light rain where you can hear individual droplets. "Shitoshito" is in the middle, and "zaazaa" is heavier rain with a more continuous sound.

[Cruxador]

"Shitoshito" is actually the onomatopoeia for English-speakers caught in sudden rain without an umbrella. They all make that sound in anguish at the effect that it has on their hairstyles.

[itisnotlogical]

Why are Japanese onomatopoeia so adorable?

[Reelya]

Pyon Pyon

[Culise]

Pyon Pyon

Nya nya.

[Reelya]

Pyon Pyon

Nya nya.

-_- Nyoro~n

[Neonivek]

Why are Japanese onomatopoeia so adorable?

From the sounds of it... Onomatopoeias are less for adults to use and more for children.

Or alternatively that is exactly it, they are made to be adorable as a way to pay tribute to whatever it is.

There is a Japanese gameshow that was ENTIRELY just trivia being presented to judges... who judge how interesting it is. (My favorite is how much money it would cost to buy out a corner store)

[Cruxador]

Why are Japanese onomatopoeia so adorable?

From the sounds of it... Onomatopoeias are less for adults to use and more for children.

Or alternatively that is exactly it, they are made to be adorable as a way to pay tribute to whatever it is.

There is a Japanese gameshow that was ENTIRELY just trivia being presented to judges... who judge how interesting it is. (My favorite is how much money it would cost to buy out a corner store)

Well go on then, how much?

[Leafsnail]

From the sounds of it... Onomatopoeias are less for adults to use and more for children.

Or alternatively that is exactly it, they are made to be adorable as a way to pay tribute to whatever it is.

Some of them are, but eg "ame ga shitoshito futte iru" is something you could hear in every day conversation.

Probably the most interesting ones are for feelings or concepts that don't actually have a literal sound, but which are meant to be evocative. Wakuwaku (excited) is one example, there's a bunch of others you'll hear in anime from time to time like ukiuki (happy, hopeful). Kurukuru also comes up a fair amount and refers to something that revolves or goes around in circles.

[Neonivek]

I have to hand it to magical worlds / Schools... It really doesn't take much to hurl you into a dangerous predicament.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Little Witch Academia makes the magic equivalent of a escalator fail and hurl you into the abyss if you as much as eat saltines during it.

But at least it isn't an ordinary part of freeken detention like Harry Potter.

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Also Magic Language is REALLY inefficient

Two paragraphs worth of writing produces one sentence of Japanese or English.

Note: I am speaking of Little Witch Academia

[Cruxador]

I have to hand it to magical worlds / Schools... It really doesn't take much to hurl you into a dangerous predicament.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Little Witch Academia makes the magic equivalent of a escalator fail and hurl you into the abyss if you as much as eat saltines during it.

But at least it isn't an ordinary part of freeken detention like Harry Potter.

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Also Magic Language is REALLY inefficient

Two paragraphs worth of writing produces one sentence of Japanese or English.

Note: I am speaking of Little Witch Academia

I mean, I can easily produce one sentence of English from two paragraphs of most of my academic stuff, and that's ostensibly the same language.

[Neonivek]

Also I will say that my criticisms WAY earlier about Little Witch Academia

About how its visuals are distracting and often non-meaningful... and how it takes place in jerk world?

Yeah... I completely confused it for ANOTHER anime about a girl learning magic. (She was being sold as a slave and was rescued by a wizard who has a dead bison for a head)

[JoshuaFH]

Also I will say that my criticisms WAY earlier about Little Witch Academia

About how its visuals are distracting and often non-meaningful... and how it takes place in jerk world?

Yeah... I completely confused it for ANOTHER anime about a girl learning magic. (She was being sold as a slave and was rescued by a wizard who has a dead bison for a head)

I was actually going to ask you about that jerk world comment, but I thought that the term 'jerk world' had some laborious and specific definition that I just wasn't aware of because LWA is set in a pretty idyllic world from what I remember of it.

[Neonivek]

Naw I use the term Jerk World to typically refer to when a setting seems to have everyone act like psychotic pricks.

It is more common in Western horror movies and 80s Gorn Animes.

I mean yeah few characters are particularly nice in Little Witch Academia... but that isn't Jerk World.

While the anime I confused LWA with... had everyone be bewildered and constantly moan about how this girl WHO SAW HER MOTHER COMMIT SUICIDE (and blame her for it, may I add) for some reason isn't happy go lucky not even a month after it occurred. All the children finding her totally weird, adults constantly bemoaning how she isn't acting lady like. She getting betrayed and ending up in slavery. Yet this is still what I considered on the cusp a sort of "Lesser Jerk World".
-Though to admit that might be because everyone is a total jerk to her... UNTIL she meets the man in her life... then suddenly she is surrounded by nice people.