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This Troper actually shows the following Tropes (among others):

• Adaptation Displacement / Early Installment Weirdness: My reaction when I was reading the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga for the first time, since I knew only the 4Kids adaptation of the anime: Japanese names? Swearing? No card games? A noseless, shark-toothed Pharaoh wearing ankhs on his wrists playing death-threatening games?
  • Then the card game came by for the first time in the second volume *
    actually the third, since at the time manga volumes were spliced so the series could be longer and more expensive to complete-thing later they stopped to do, with Yu-Gi-Oh! volumes being as the Japanese ones starting from Issue 13, actually the Japanese number 7
    : Magic & Wizards? The monsters have different names? Power-up cards increasing stats by percentages rather than fixed values? Holy/Mystical Elf is shown with her eyes opened while being decapitated by Minotaurus/Battle Axe?
  • And then the Italian edition started to confound me with monster names changing between issues or even chapters *
    Is Summoned Skull's manga name Demon, Demoniac Summoning, Demon's Summoning or The Devil's Evocation?
    , mangled translation of English words written in Japanese *
    Harpy and Dinosaur becoming Happy and Dynausor, for example
    , and weird adaptation choices *
    Why they translate mind with anima, which actually means soul, rather than mente? Why they usually keep Yen as the money value, then they shift to Euros in chapters where money is actually shown? you know, European 50 Cents are identical to Japanese 200 Yen...
• Berserk Button: Let's just say diminutives piss me off. Also:
  • Reading Dethroning Moment Of Suck entries bashing my favourite scenes from various series. *
    that one about Jimmy Neutron is wrong: Australia is not a continent, is just an island part of the Oceania continent!
  • Footnotes explaining stuff I already know. *
    why a 13-years old shouldn't know what karate is?
    • Also the footnotes in mangas about how much is in Euros that pricetag in Yen they just mentioned.
    • Or including Translator's note at the end, which in my mind amounts to "The translator wants to say he's smarter than you".
  • Wrong footnotes, like:
    • "Gamera is Godzilla's enemy" *
      found in Issue 2 of the latest Dragon Ball reissue
    • Getting the description of what Takoyaki is wrong. *
      In Italian, octopus is polpo, while polypus is polipo. Find someone who doesn't use polipo as a synonym of polpo. Cue "Takoyakis are polypus dumplings" footnotes, when the official Italian translation used in various anime is octopus meatballs.
  • Everytime Hasbro releases some Transformers waves everywhere except for Italy. Examples include every Generations wave after the first one, every Revenge Of The Fallen Voyager Class figure starting with the Long Haul one and, most important, the last waves of Animated, like the ones with Waspinator and Wreck-Gar.
    • Also some waves have being released everywhere except for the region where I live, like Movie Jetfire, Animated Lugnut, Blitzwing and Grimlock and Power Core Combiners after wave 1, except for a single wave 3 5-pack. Albeit sometimes they arrive later (examples: Animated Soundwave and ROTF Lockdown. The first was released in Wave 3 along with Jazz, Snarl and Oil Slick in Italy during November 2008. In Genoa, where I live, he and Jazz arrived only in December 2009. ROTF Lockdown was announced in commercials along with Recon Ironhide and Bludgeon in January 2010: the latter two actually were never released in Italy, while him was released in Italy only at December of the same year... but as an exclusive for a singular chain of stores and duty-free shops on boats.)
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: One day, four years ago, I was bored. Then an idea came up to me: what if I phoned to the Official Nintendo Magazine and had a chat with the chief director? And I did it. Next month, guess what? The mail section includes a reference to my phone call. There aren't enough words to describe my joy.
  • Discovering that for the first time there was going to be a New Super Mario Bros. Wii tournament in my town, getting signed in, getting first place and winning a Nintendo 3DS. If this is not awesome...
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Subverted.
• Fetish Fuel: For some reason, I like White Gloves. And ties too. Obviously, at this point, Maka is the only reason for me to watch Soul Eater.
  • For more normal fetish, I like Gothic Lolitas.
  • For the reason above, My first Cosplay will be Kyon, just because I want to wear a tie.
  • Jossed: It will be Cilan, since he is the best Pokémon character ever.
  • Also, I just got a fetish for stockings.
• Genre Savvy: And proud of it.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: The fact that I can't talk to my friend Matthew without imitating his voice since we were 6 should be a good start. But the weird thing is my Mikuru Asahina impression. Sadly I have no way to record, so I can't do videos of me singing Koi no Mikuru Densetsu. And also I can't do Homestar Runner Italian fandubs, sadly because I can do every character's voice.
• Security Blanket: Number 74 of Digital Japan Magazine, the first Italian magazine to date with an article about Haruhi Suzumiya inside. And it doesn't matter if on the cover they said the series title is ''SOS-Dan'', or that the article contains a leftover box from a Bleach review, or if an Air Gear article haves an Eureka Seven pic, or if the index lists Code Geass as an Hentai. I love it.
• Shout Out: My personal Transformers Universe is filled with them:
  • Speedbooster, the local Autobot speedster, is based on the Initial D parody in episode 6 of Lucky Star, down to have Yui's car as his altmode.
  • His best friend, Skyjack, is not based so much from his G2 counterpart, but more on G1 Powerglide and from Kukai, whose Chara Nari is also called Sky Jack. His Targetmaster Barricade is based both of the Movieverse Decepticon and the omonimous Nerf gun.
  • Nightbeat is very Inspector Gadget-esque, with Eject and Rewind acting as his Gadgetinis.
  • From the Decepticon side, we have Frenzy, Rumble and Slipstream, which are basically Yakko, Wakko and Hello Nurse.
  • Skywarp is a freakish mixup between Animated Lugnut, Movieverse Bonecrusher, G1 Skywarp and Abomination.
  • Runabout and Runamuck are a hybrid of the Katayaragi twins with Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm. Their paintjobs are inspired from the SHIPS, being one white with blue stripes and black legs and the other one black with purple stripes and white legs.
  • And on top of everything, and coming back on the Autobot side, Grapple and Hoist are Leonard and Sheldon AS GIANT ROBOTS!
  • Shifting towards a different Hasbro franchise, my character Bubblegum Spit is a Pony version of "You Do Voodoo"'s Bad Girl version of Diana.
  • In my Pokémon games, every Mon gets a name referring to something else it reminds to me. Examples are Geronimo the Raticate, Heatblast the Blaziken, Sid the Slakoth, Dedede the Empoleon, Omi the Mienfoo and Ganon the Emboar. Weird case is a Clefable named Starscream. You know, Clefairy is star-shaped, so...
• Shout Out Theme Naming: My actual team in Pokémon Black is formed by Swanna, Pidgeot, Beheeyem, Lopunny, Gallade and Furret. Their nicknames? Haruhi, Kyon-Kun, YukiNagato, Mikuru, Itsuki-Kun and Tsuruya.
• Stock Yuck: I hate this thing, but then I dislike every vegetable in the universe except potatoes and eggplants. And cheese.