...I don't consider shortening Japanese to Jap to be a slur, but okay.
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And it certainly isn't a racial slur, in any case.
...I don't consider shortening Japanese to Jap to be a slur, but okay.
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And it certainly isn't a racial slur, in any case.
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
I mean, it is regarded as such these days, but I don't want to fight about it.
Originally Posted by Deathhappens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
Can't believe I've been racist towards myself all this time.
Honestly if I got called a Jap I wouldn't see it as something odd. But it's a bit hard to care after you had a roommate that used say "Boom, just like Hiroshima!" after scoring kills in Super Smash all the time.
Some people still regard it as a slur, but unlike "Nippon" shorted, it has been sorta "reclaimed" I guess. I don't personally count it as one, but the scars are still there so I try to be respectful about it. Liike Menwearpink said, I've seen a lot of Japanese use it and its equivalent has been used in multiple other languages without issue. The main stem of it being an issue is in English/American centric conversations where the scars from the word can still be prevalent. It still has a decade or two before it entirely fades, and you can see the usage of the term going up a lot as it slowly starts to be reclaimed.
True. Americans essentially turned it into a slur during WWII, and that's kinda why I called it out in the first place. It's still kinda off-color. Also, I didn't know Japanese people are actually reclaiming it, since I read Japanese-Americans still find it quite offensive. Also, I'm just going to assume n-word rules apply in this case.
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Also, there is no way in hell the scars of that time are going away, especially with the resurgence of anti-Asian hate these days in America.
If that branch on Lancelot's new animation is a reference to this, then that's a neat detail
Ain't that the lore behind Knight of HOwnoer
Yeah, the NP subtitle of "A Knight Does Not Die With Empty Hands" is literally the "Alas . . . that ever a knight should die weaponless" from the quotation
So we know the one above Douman is Evil Spirit Left Minister, to the left is Chernobog and to the right is Itzpapalotl. What about the other monsters? Frog, bull, monkey and uhh bird
Just shikigami iirc, some of them show up in his attack animations
I think they have something to do with the four cardinal directions? Don't quote me on that though.
You are thinking of the spell Douman used to summoned Touta, Suzuka and the others
That spell make it so Douman and each of them represented one of the Eight General Gods (八将神)
As I understand about it, this deities are use in onmyodo for divination and preside over someone's fortune, and are related to cardinal directions, the zodiac, etc.
Honestly I never understood the hasshojin stuff, because when he goes 3rd ascension mode in-story he mentions that and how he represents all 8 and whatnot, and then right after he's just a high servant with itzpapa and chernobog, so which is it???
Well counting Douman himself there are 8 creatures in that image, too
I count 8 excluding Douman, there's that bird in the back.
Nah there's only 7: Birb, Cherno, Jaguar Butterfly Wing Aztec, Minister, Monkey, Frog, and Cow.
Well, for whatever matters, that image appears when Douman brings the subject of the eight general gods for the first time in the story.
After that, as they are summoned, Touta, Suzuka, etc. call themselves by the names of those gods
I was talking to some other people and was considering this;
There's very few methods to travel lostbelt to lostbelt.
- Vitch can travel between them, bringing people with them
- Be Caenis/have Poseidon's blessing
- Douman doesn't technically travel but just sends Shikigamis
- Travel through the reverse side like QSH
- Travel Chaldea-style
As far as we know there aren't any other ways? Which begs the question- how does Pepe get to LB6? He's clearly not coming with us and Vitch had already left with Beryl. This means he got there somehow. I'm curious if I missed something, but as far as I remember he needed Vitch to get from LB4 -> LB5. The one thing I thought of is this from Case Files Volume I:
Shugendo-arts is the type of magecraft that Pepe uses. Wouldn't be wild to assume he knew this- but it'd still be odd for him to be able to get from LB to LB. Interested if anyone else has an idea.My master told me this later, but apparently this was an example of a fairly well known Shugendou technique, a magecraft passed down in En no Ozuno's teachings, known as Raven Flight or Tengu Flight. If taken to the extreme, it could be said to be one step short of True Magic, an ability close to spacial teleportation. Using this, Seigen casually floated up to and landed on the chandelier.
However Holmes made it to and from Camelot?
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