Sonna...
So I've spent the last day and some change watching an anime, Hajime no Ippo ("the first step"). I'm on the last of two movies right now, and it just occrred to me that the single most common phrase in anime* is 「そんな。。。ばかな！」 (Sonna... baka na!) which is usually translated as "That's... impossible!"
In just this hour of anime, I think I've heard it nearly twenty times, but I haven't been counting, so maybe I'm just imagining it.
In any case, they bandy it about much like Vizzini bandies about "Inconceivable!"
I'm sure other people have noticed this, too, and I feel a little silly for being so slow to follow it through.
I probably missed a lot of Sonna... baka na!s because of the way I was watching Hajime no Ippo: by keeping my finger on the Skip-five-seconds-forward key combo through the last forty-five episodes. Whenever they got into an extended match of "AAARRRRGHHH!" and it looked like DBZ syndrome would set in, I'd skip forward, check to see if it was over, then continue. By this method, I was able to watch most of the twenty-minute episodes in about ten minutes each.
So that's my new strategy in the event that I want to watch a Shounen Jump-styled anime from now on.
*Probably in manga as well, but I don't read much manga, so I dunno.
In just this hour of anime, I think I've heard it nearly twenty times, but I haven't been counting, so maybe I'm just imagining it.
In any case, they bandy it about much like Vizzini bandies about "Inconceivable!"
I'm sure other people have noticed this, too, and I feel a little silly for being so slow to follow it through.
I probably missed a lot of Sonna... baka na!s because of the way I was watching Hajime no Ippo: by keeping my finger on the Skip-five-seconds-forward key combo through the last forty-five episodes. Whenever they got into an extended match of "AAARRRRGHHH!" and it looked like DBZ syndrome would set in, I'd skip forward, check to see if it was over, then continue. By this method, I was able to watch most of the twenty-minute episodes in about ten minutes each.
So that's my new strategy in the event that I want to watch a Shounen Jump-styled anime from now on.
*Probably in manga as well, but I don't read much manga, so I dunno.
posted by William at
8/13/2008 05:45:00 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds about how I do it as well, when I even bother. Some of them have a decent plot, it's just spread over so much space that it's hard to follow. We need to make up the Cliff's Notes of anime.
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