大海原と大海原 ・Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea Absolute Beginners Book Club Chapter 3 Thread

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This manga seems to like putting sound effects into speech balloons.

Best I can figure it it’s the sound of the ruffling of the sack the ocarina is in.

Since 魔法(まほう) has が, that means that 必要(ひつよう) is a description of 魔法(まほう). “My magic is necessary”.

If a sentence ends in だ (such as 必要だ), and you want to add the explanatory の after it, that だ changes to な. Thus, 必要だ＋のだ becomes 必要なのだ. And this なの often gets spoken as なん, resulting in なんだ.

This “explanatory” aspect changes the meaning from a statement (“My magic is necessary in this sea…”) to an explanation (“It is because my magic is necessary in this sea…”)

I’ve previously written a lot about the explanatory の here (highly recommended!):

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