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Xanatos wrote:Fact: "Yamaku" is (unintentionally) an anagram of "mayaku" which is a Japanese term for illegal drugs.

Once again, why do you even know this?

The only characters who appear in the prologue are Hisao and Iwanako.

At least three of the five endings involve the girl saying or directing something to Hisao in some way in the good endings (Hanako kisses him, Emi asks him what he wants to do today, and Rin asks him what that feel means)

Mirage_GSM wrote:

Xanatos wrote:Fact: Google Translate renders the Japanese character for "ha" (as in HA-nako) as "blister" when translated to English...So, bit of a dark joke there.

Wrong.
Hanako's name does not even contain the character "ha".
It is written as 華子, which contains the chatacters "hana" (flower) and "ko" (child)

Interesting. Doesn't change Google's translation though. Dunno why you're pointing it out. I know how it's written.

@OtakuNinja: I googled it.

Xanatos wrote:

Mirage_GSM wrote:

Xanatos wrote:Fact: Google Translate renders the Japanese character for "ha" (as in HA-nako) as "blister" when translated to English...So, bit of a dark joke there.

Wrong.
Hanako's name does not even contain the character "ha".
It is written as 華子, which contains the chatacters "hana" (flower) and "ko" (child)

Interesting. Doesn't change Google's translation though. Dunno why you're pointing it out. I know how it's written.

@OtakuNinja: I googled it.

You google way too much weird stuff.

As someone who knows Japanese, I can confirm that her name means flower-child. What "ha"-character did Google use?

OtakuNinja wrote:You google way too much weird stuff.

As someone who knows Japanese, I can confirm that her name means flower-child. What "ha"-character did Google use?

I just wondered if Yamaku translated to anything. The rest came from an old thread from the forum. From 2009.

And I dunno. I know the character isn't actually in the name. I was just going by the letters to make the joke work.

Xanatos wrote:

OtakuNinja wrote:You google way too much weird stuff.

As someone who knows Japanese, I can confirm that her name means flower-child. What "ha"-character did Google use?

I just wondered if Yamaku translated to anything. The rest came from an old thread from the forum. From 2009.

And I dunno. I know the character isn't actually in the name. I was just going by the letters to make the joke work.

I think its mentioned somewhere that Yamaku doesn't really translate (apparently it literally has no meaning, along with Iwanako).
I believe what it said was "As long as it sounds foreign"

I think its mentioned somewhere that Yamaku doesn't really translate (apparently it literally has no meaning, along with Iwanako).

I believe it was a reference to a mistranslation from another fanproject.

And on the subject of translations....

Hakamichi can be translated as "road to the grave".

I think its mentioned somewhere that Yamaku doesn't really translate (apparently it literally has no meaning, along with Iwanako).

According to Google, Iwanako means "say no" and Yamaku means "Congestion film".

OtakuNinja wrote:

I think its mentioned somewhere that Yamaku doesn't really translate (apparently it literally has no meaning, along with Iwanako).

According to Google, Iwanako means "say no" and Yamaku means "Congestion film".

The thread I got the drug bit from mentioned that Yamaku could somehow be translated into "pile of inferiors" or something...*cough*

Man, that must have been akward when they founded the academy.

The problem about Japanese is that you can give any polysyllabic word at least a dozen different meanings depending on which Kanji you use to write it. Most of them would be extremely obscure readings that wouldn't even occur even to a Japanese native speaker without the use of a dictionary.

Xanatos wrote:

Oddball wrote:Lilly is the only character whose "nude sprite" is completely naked.

True. Though I think Shizune benefits from it. <.<

Is the link in that pic real? Or is it just fan art?

Kaze wrote:

Xanatos wrote:

Oddball wrote:Lilly is the only character whose "nude sprite" is completely naked.

True. Though I think Shizune benefits from it. <.<

Is the link in that pic real? Or is it just fan art?

Nah, it's not in-game, that's for sure.

Fiandra wrote:
Nah, it's not in-game, that's for sure.

Unless theres some DLC I haven't heard of.

Fiandra wrote:

Kaze wrote: Is the link in that pic real? Or is it just fan art?

Nah, it's not in-game, that's for sure.

It's pre-ordered DLC that comes with Jigoro x Othello bedroom scene.