You thought this was a video about Japanese…But it was me! A Bobobo video! Special thanks to Mari Morimoto, Anne Yatco, and my Japanese Professors!

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Music:

Unicorn, Jeryco
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Stay - Otis McDonald
Phantom - Density & Time
Wander - Emmit Fenn
Papov - Yung Logos

Intro: (0:00)
Sentence Endings: (3:48)
Passive Sentences: (4:38)
Long Sentences: (5:11)
No Present/Future tense: (5:47)
No Singular/Plural: (6:18)
No 2nd/3rd Person Pronouns: (6:43)
First Person Pronouns: (7:16)
Indecisive Sentences: (8:41)
Weird Units: (10:18)
High Context: (11:02)
Non-Existent Words: (12:22)
Formality: (12:48)
Cursing: (14:48)
Onomatopoeia: (15:53)
Idioms/Metaphors: (16:52)
Kanji: (17:21)
Sounds: (18:41)
Sounds - Dialect: (19:25)
Additional Thoughts: (20:09)
Additional Thoughts-lossless translation: (20:43)
Real World Comparisons: (21:16)
Bobobo Name Comparison: (22:23)
Additional Considerations in Manga Translation: (24:39)
Bobobo Culturally Difficult Translations: (25:08)
Bobobo Kanji Translations: (26:00)
Bobobo Sentence Ending Particle Translation: (26:54)
Anime Adaptation: (27:53)
Subtitles Difficulties: (28:31)
Dubbing - Voice Acting: (30:03)
Dubbing - Difficulties: (30:32)
Bobobo Full Comparison: (31:07)
Bobobo Localization Comparison: (31:45)
Localization!: (32:10)
Localization - Effects of Market: (34:17)
Censorship: (35:12)
Recap: (36:59)
Dubbing - Additional Thoughts: (37:15)
My Request: (38:13)

Sources (in order of appearance):

Jenny Mckeon Quote:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurenor...

Interagency Language Roundtable scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale

Foreign service language institute language difficulty (current):
https://www.state.gov/foreign-languag...

Foreign service language institute language difficulty (prior):
https://effectivelanguagelearning.com...

Japanese Particles:
https://japanese.awaisora.com/syuujyo...

Night on the Galactic Railroad (Milky Way Railroad)
Author Miyazawa Kenji
Translation Sarah M. Strong
1991
Identifier 63_20211019_20211019_1744

Japanese First Person Pronouns:
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9...

Tatami Mats:
https://www.aeras-group.jp/column/a17...

Japanese Units:
https://www.dainippon-tosho.co.jp/uni...

More Japanese Units:
https://book.asahi.com/article/13294969

Measuring Time:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%...

Eras of Japan
https://yattoke.com/2017/04/08/social17/

Salt in Green Vegetables:
https://proverb-encyclopedia.com/salt...

Language speeds:
https://www.cnsinternational.es/7-fas...

Japanese Stories for Language Learners” by Anne McNulty & Eriko
ISBN:9784805314685

Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording) (Paperback)
By Eriko Sato, Anna Sato, Anna Sato (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9784805316627

BOBOBO:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...

ASAHI Television Programming:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...

Ghost Stories History:
https://animecorner.me/the-weird-and-...

American Version of Crayon Shinchan:
http://jin115.com/archives/52220534.h...

American Bannings of Crayon Shinchan:
https://www.recordchina.co.jp/b105090...

Exploration of Potential Censorship in Modern Crayon Shinchan:
https://subculwalker.com/archives/79862/

Yugioh Censorship:
https://www.thegamer.com/yugioh-card-...