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WCDT strips 4016-4020 (3rd to 7th June 2019)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Case on 06 Jun 2019, 19:24 ---What's with the "oraoraora!"?
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I'm fairly sure I have seen Japanese soldiers/pilots cry "Ora ora ora" in comic booklets (from the 70s, Finnish edition/translation of Commando) depicting events during WWII. I thought it was either a battle cry (like "Banzai") or an alarm call alerting peers of a sighted enemy, or a cry to taunt your opponent. I'm prepared to be wrong about this though. They would obviously use creative license, and my recollection is not what it once was.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 06 Jun 2019, 21:31 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 06 Jun 2019, 19:24 ---What's with the "oraoraora!"?
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We are culturally illiterate, Case, left behind in a changing world. Let's go get a sasparilla and moan about kids these days.
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Question from a non-murrican: sarsaparilla is something similar to root beer, right?
One of the weirder things: personally, I think Anime got popular in my part of the world due to western adoption, not coming directly from JP
BenRG:
Well, at least Momo isn't going around, telling her friends that May is a man-stealing [[expletive]] and that they shouldn't associate with her anymore. Yes, I think that she'd literally say 'expletive' in a different tone of voice because she's installed a profanity filter.
Seriously, this doesn't surprise me. We know that Momo has a violent streak that she normally keeps on a tight leash, so we get this 'slow boil' problem with her. Beating up an innocent punchbag is probably a good thing and stops her from just reaching the point where she's tasering people at random for looking at her funny. That said, she does desperately need a boyfriend or some other way to regularly let off tension!
For the life of me, I can't tell if Bubbles' comments in panel 4 are sarcastic or serious. I have this problem a lot with her but not as much as I sometimes do with Brun!
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 06 Jun 2019, 19:48 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 06 Jun 2019, 19:24 ---What's with the "oraoraora!"?
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure reference, methinks.
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And, having never even heard of the animé in question, the whole thing flies right over my head.
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Fixed a typo
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Case on 05 Jun 2019, 19:16 ---I'd rather we stay well clear of labeling sentients - real or fictional, artificial or natural - as garbage.
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These people might beg to disagree. Being Garbage is how they make their living after all.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 05 Jun 2019, 17:31 ---You're right, I'd forgotten all about the synthetic boyfriend. Still, he was clearly a beta phase project that drew stares at that time.
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And in that arc, Faye explicitly says "AnthroPCs are one thing, but you don't see fully humanoid robots running around everywhere."
Clearly, once the humanoid robots were produced, they became a big hit almost overnight. One supposes that many AnthroPCs may have upgraded to human-sized chassis once they could do so.
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 06 Jun 2019, 21:57 ---I'm fairly sure I have seen Japanese soldiers/pilots cry "Ora ora ora" in comic booklets (from the 70s, Finnish edition/translation of Commando) depicting events during WWII. I thought it was either a battle cry (like "Banzai") or an alarm call alerting peers of a sighted enemy, or a cry to taunt your opponent. I'm prepared to be wrong about this though. They would obviously use creative license, and my recollection is not what it once was.
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I suspect you may be thinking of "Tora tora tora" instead.
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