2024-01-27
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| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-27 |  きんいろモザイク |
 Anime |
3 episodes | 1h15m |
So with CCS down, I decided to start a new anime in Japanese. I basically just looked at the level 10-20 range in Natively and picked one I recognised. So Kiniro Mosaic it is.
Episode one felt a bit like cheating since the first half took place in England and so had a lot of English spoken. It was kind of funny seeing which voice actors were good at English pronounciation when their characters weren’t supposed to be, or vice versa.
Can I mention how weird it is to see an anime episode set in England? Like these are places I’ve been for the scenes in London, and the English countryside and Irish countryside are quite similar, so it’s super weird seeing how familiar the scenery looks compared to how anime portrays the Japanese countryside. (However, she did also seem to find a time machine on the way to the countryside, or maybe the host family are just really into that retro vibe. It’s like being back in my great grandmother’s house. She was born in the 1800s.)
Mostly I’m trying to watch these anime raw, but this one also has some hard Japanese subs for the dialogue that’s in English in the Japanese dub. The choices are… interesting. I’m not sure this is actually the most useful to Japanese people lol:
Found an interesting use of では - アリスのせいでは for what context makes clear is “It isn’t alice’s fault”. Rather than contracting ではない into じゃない, the character just dropped the ない, I guess?
The line being translated here is “uhh… uhh…uhhh”:
Episode 2:
Again with the foreign characters (and only the foreign characters) saying にっぽん like Meiling in CCS a while ago. Is this like a stereotype of foreigner speak? TGAA even extended that into the English text.
Thanks to ご注文はうさぎですか？and School-Live, I keep expecting this character to pull out a weapon.
One thing I’ve noticed is kinda funny is the contrast between the realistic backgrounds and the quite chibi character designs.