Understanding an untranslatable joke from a manzai routine in the Japanese version of Xenogears

4 comments

1. This was interesting!

2. It’s so niche and in-depth that I can’t not be impressed and interested. Thank you for the read! Looking through the rest of the blog now.

3. Reminds me of one of the previews for a cowboy bebop episode. My wife and I are watching the Japanese dub and she starts losing her mind laughing. I can understand Japanese no problem, but didn’t understand why she was laughing.

   Apparently they were parodying a famous romantic watch commercial, nearly word for word, and it totally went over my head. I haven’t seen the English version in a long time, but would love to see if they translated it as is or just made something unique for the preview.

4. Great read, thanks for sharing!