Hello everyone, this is YOUR daily dose of Japanese internet.
Recently a new Full Metal Alchemist mobile game was released in Japan.
It seems that, there’s a bug where the main character Edward loses his hair in a cutscene.
Some of the responses:
So vigorous!
ハゲめの錬金術師, meaning, bald-headed alchemist but being a very good pun on the anime’s title, 鋼の錬金術師。
Yeah, Ed actually canonically goes bald in the future.
It’s exactly like this scene (him saying “was taken from
me!” about his brother and his leg, but in this case could be his hair)
Someone pointed out its similarity to this funny picture. Almost the exact same.
This is a “Letters from your younger sister” gacha. For 200 yen, you receive, apparently,
“a letter written by hand from the bottom of her heart – because texting just won’t do this time”
This is what came out, apparently. The last sentence is a pun that is
very difficult to translate, but I’ll do my best.
To my older brother, You must be surprised
to receive this letter out of the blue. To be honest, there’s something I’ve been
keeping from you. Remember how our mom died after falling down the stairs last year?
The truth is, I pushed her. But it wasn’t on purpose! A fly landed on her shoulder and,
when I went to kill it, I pushed her. You must be shocked to hear this in a
letter, but it’s the truth. Only a fly can fall so fast.
The last line is basically the punch line, it’s a really corny dad joke.
(PUN: Fly is ハエ in Japanese, “fast” is 早い which can be said “casually” as ハエー.. ハエだけに転落スピードハエー)
There’s actually a few more letters in this series and among other similar gacha too.
Some are really creepy. This one has everything repeated like 5 times per line saying like
big brother, do not look at other girls, you are mine,
who is she? What are you doing together? I will not allow it, kind of thing.
In the replies to the fly pun letter, we get a meme that I’ve been saving for these
videos for a long time, so here we go. A lot of you will recognize this, it says 計画通り –
all according to keikaku – keikaku means plan by the way.
I’ll avoid spoilers here but if you haven’t seen Death Note by now bro, I mean…
While the famous scene in the west spawned the “keikaku means plan” meme,
the original shot itself is very commonly used online in Japan and has been for many years.
Here’s a small compilation of just some of the alternate versions I could find.
This street, 平和通り, where the 通り part would just mean Street basically, was
photoshopped to say 計画通り even. The English part is changed to KUKUKU
which would be laughing at the people you deceived. Here’s a similar shirt, too.
This hilarious picture is captioned,
“My first time seeing the real thing – look it’s floating! So cool!”
Huh?? How is it floating?? There must be little strings hidden somewhere!
I like how the legs are made of the
transparent background thing lol Legs? What are you talking about?
I include a personal story from my time in Japan in all of my videos. Today’s takes place over 5
years ago when I was an immature young adult living near Osaka. The city I was living in
had these little gutters running alongside all the streets, which is common in Japan. One day, while
walking down the street with my friends Taro, Japanese, and Gary, Australian, we saw a little
crayfish looking thing in the gutter. Gary said something like, excuse my Australian imperssion
“awh, what’s that, a yabby”? Which shocked me and Taro, who had never heard of a “yabby”, but it
turns out that’s what Australians call crayfish. (note on screen: there are australia-specific
species of crayfish called yabby, though). It was a funny joke to talk about “yabbies”
all the time until one day me and Taro, just the two of us, were again walking down the road and
saw another yabby! I guess Taro was one of those guys who as a kid loved to catch bugs and stuff,
because he immediately caught it with his hands and wanted to prank Gary with it.
To make it worse, Gary had a girl over at his apartment that evening. Later that night,
Taro went and snuck it into Gary’s bathroom sink, and within a few minutes we heard the girl scream
in fear. The next day when we went over to Gary’s apartment to ask what happened, Taro had brought a
cage and some food and a water dish for it, and told Gary that he now had to keep it as a pet,
which he reluctantly did for a few days… until we learned that it “mysteriously” went missing…
Taro still calls Gary “Yabby Slayer” to this day.
But Gary insists he felt bad and released it back into the gutter.
So, this actually isn’t a Daily Dose series,
this is a part of a series where I translate Japanese memes and what’s generally happening
on the Japanese internet. Check out the playlist for more! Thanks for watching.