{"id":6530,"date":"2011-09-04T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2011-09-04T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T01:04:06","slug":"dalians-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/09\/04\/dalians-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalian&#8217;s Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying <em>The Mystic Archives of Dantalian<\/em> (<em>Dantalian no Shoka<\/em>). Sure, it has lots of implausibilities, but I&#8217;m willing to overlook them. In the gothic-horror genre, style and atmosphere always trump plausibility.<\/p>\n<p>However there&#8217;s one thing that keeps bugging me. Dalian has a verbal quirk: she constantly says &#8220;Yes&#8221; in English when confirming someone else&#8217;s statement. That&#8217;s not unusual in that lots of <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> girls have distinctive quirks in their speech.<\/p>\n<p>Except that&#8230;even though the dialog is in Japanese, the story is set in England, so presumably everyone is really speaking English. What would be the English equivalent of saying &#8220;yes&#8221; when speaking Japanese?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that she is actually saying <em>&#8220;hai&#8221;<\/em>? Or more likely, given her tone of voice, <em>&#8220;sou desu&#8221;<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>That wouldn&#8217;t be totally unreasonable. She shows a great deal of familiarity with East Asian literature. In the 1920s that would probably imply that she can at least read Chinese or Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>I would be interested to know what Gakuto Mikumo, the author of the <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#light_novel\">light novels<\/a>, really had in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (Dantalian no Shoka). Sure, it has lots of implausibilities, but I&#8217;m willing to overlook them. In the gothic-horror genre, style and atmosphere&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/09\/04\/dalians-yes\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-dantalian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}