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#3151: Jul 16th 2017 at 10:04:36 AM

After looking at The Idiot from Osaka page, I think it really depends which side of the stereotype the character's supposed to display.

Laid-back, slow-moving, accent treated as a sign of stupidity, that's all definitely something Southern.

New York/Jersey maps more to competitive and short-tempered, maybe the money obession that sometimes turns up.

But, um, yeah. It doesn't really matter. Regional and accent stereotypes from different countries don't match up that cleanly and every region tends to have multiple types associated with it.

Something I'm curious about, if anyone here's from that side of the Pond: What British accents do you think carry stereotypes broadly similar to Osaka?

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#3152: Jul 16th 2017 at 10:07:35 AM

Ni No Kuni translated it into a Cockney accent and it fit really well, even with the Manzai duo that spoke it sounded great and humor wise it was quite appropriate.

edited 16th Jul '17 10:11:51 AM by Memers

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#3153: Jul 17th 2017 at 10:32:15 PM

So a random topic came to my mind after​ a friend of mine brought it up: If Kimihito didn't exist and the series was instead about the main girls having to live in the same house together {Probably because of Smith's lazyness}, what would the character interactions between the main cast be like without a guy for them to get jealous over and cause harem antics?

edited 17th Jul '17 10:33:12 PM by marston

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#3154: Jul 17th 2017 at 11:01:10 PM

It'd be an interesting change, I think. Kimihito is pretty neutral and is basically the canvas background for the girls' different colors to stand out on. I'm not sure it would work quite as well without him there as a catalyst, either.

It's been fun.
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3155: Jul 18th 2017 at 4:21:39 AM

They're only roommates because of Kimihito, so you'd have to alter their personalities and situations to get them all to room together.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3156: Jul 18th 2017 at 8:02:41 AM

Oh right, I completely forgot about this thread. Must've gotten knocked off my watchlist or something.

Anyway, I was the guy who brought up that idea, mainly out of curiosity for how the girls would act in a more neutral setting without having jealousy and competition over him to color their interactions. Like you guys pointed out the main problem is definitely explaining why they'd all be under one roof. The only thing I could think of is that the nature of the homestay program would be different and that the girls would be living independently rather than with host families. Smith being Smith, she finds it easier to deal with by dumping them all in the same place so she doesn't need to run around as much to check on them.

There's also the possibility that they end up under Smith's care rather than with a host family due to past disciplinary issues. Like Miia kept trying to seduce her hosts, Papi forgot where she was supposed to be and would fly away, Centorea got in a fight with someone jaywalking, etc.

As for the dub, I'm pretty neutral on it.

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#3157: Jul 18th 2017 at 8:17:31 AM

I think at this point they have enough chemistry with each other that you could make an entertaining Kimihito-less setting. Actually some of the better stuff is when the girls are bouncing off each other without it being about him. Instead of a host family thing, it could be a boarding house situation. I'd guess that Ms Smith could be the superintendent or something. You could even fill out more rooms with the MON girls to give them more face time with the others.

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#3158: Jul 18th 2017 at 5:22:43 PM

Honestly, I think it would work out, even if a few things needed tweaking. Kimihito's a good guy, and you always need someone to play the straight man, but their personalities are varied enough that I think it would work. Especially as a more balanced daily-lives sort of series.

It's been fun.
marston Since: Sep, 2011
#3159: Jul 18th 2017 at 7:03:27 PM

I mean, Centorea already serves as a Straight Man to the other girls anyway, even though she has her own quirks too. Plus having the girls all end up living together without Kimihito wouldn't be too hard when you consider that Smith would probably dump them all at the same house if it meant less paperwork to do, future consequences be damned.

firewriter Since: Dec, 2016
#3161: Jul 18th 2017 at 10:26:30 PM

In a harem-less setting, I could as you see the girls living in a boarding house run by a host who takes in monster girls for the foreign exchange program. How about instead of the usual harem hero, it would be a middle aged couple with a daughter around the girls' age?

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3162: Jul 18th 2017 at 10:28:43 PM

Yeah, Centorea would honestly make a pretty good Straight Man to the rest of the cast once Darling is out of the equation. Her quirks are most evident when she's interacting with him in some capacity. Outside of that, most of the jokes involving her are mostly about either trying (and failing) to keep herself out of the group's shenanigans or the size of her knockers.

It could also work where you have being the straight man as a rotating position, with different girls filling the role depending on the specific plotline. Since it would be even more of a Slice of Life kind of thing, it would be easier to shuffle things according to whatever the subject of the episode is. Like one of the early episodes could be them trying to figure out the food situation (since Darling isn't around) and they Miia and Centorea get into some sort of argument over each other's cooking. And the B-plot is Papi ordering dinner from a delivery place, only to forget she did so, and then ordering again. And then at the end of the episode there would be a Brick Joke where all the food shows up at once.

[up]That could be interesting, though when I came up with the idea, my goal was to try to isolate the girls to see how they acted when it's just them. Not that that idea couldn't be quite entertaining (there's a lot of potential there depending on what personalities you give the daughter and the parents), just that it wasn't quite what I was going for.

[up][up]That would end up just being the same as the original manga, only it's a Yuri series now. Which I would be fine with. tongue

edited 18th Jul '17 10:35:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#3163: Jul 18th 2017 at 10:40:42 PM

[up]I'd also be fine with that. Though, iirc, someone actually wrote a fanfic along those lines called Monster Yurisume or something like that [lol] Though I think the protagonist was a female from the get-go, and not a genderswap of Kimihito.

edited 18th Jul '17 10:41:08 PM by BlackSunNocturne

firewriter Since: Dec, 2016
#3164: Jul 18th 2017 at 10:47:11 PM

@Japanese Teeth

The family would be just ordinary, with the daughter being kind of curious about monsters and acts like a sister to all the girls who come into the house. I think the daughter who has been an only child all her life would love to have girls her age be kind of like surrogate sisters to her. Also her parents would see any monster who comes in the door as a surrogate daughter of theirs.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3165: Jul 19th 2017 at 8:24:15 PM

I'd personally like the family to be a bit more quirky, but that's just me.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3166: Jul 20th 2017 at 5:00:23 AM

I just remembered that "Monster Musume without the Harem Gere" already exists. It's call A Centaur's Life and I recommend it to anyone not familiar with it.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#3167: Jul 20th 2017 at 5:40:37 AM

It's definitely a different beast, though, and while I liked it at first, the later chapters started getting weird, if I recall right. Definitely worth a shot, but you won't find much similarity to MonMusu there aside from the monster girl aspect.

It's been fun.
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3168: Jul 20th 2017 at 7:35:11 AM

Yeah, from what I've heard that's quite a different series.

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AtomicKitKat Atomic Kit Kat from Radiotight bunker Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#3169: Jul 24th 2017 at 12:39:56 AM

There's a huge 72 page double chapter this month.

Chapter 53 https://imgur.com/a/J8Zrq

And 54 https://imgur.com/gallery/KWOu3

edited 24th Jul '17 12:41:03 AM by AtomicKitKat

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#3170: Jul 24th 2017 at 6:19:50 AM

I feel like at least some of those pages have to be out of order.

It's been fun.
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#3171: Jul 24th 2017 at 7:38:15 AM

Looks like we're in for another Kaiju fight.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3172: Jul 29th 2017 at 7:48:26 AM

Both OVA episodes an the shorts have been dubbed as well.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#3173: Jul 29th 2017 at 8:30:37 AM

Ah, is the second OVA out? Last one I saw was the one with Polt.

It's been fun.
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3174: Jul 29th 2017 at 8:43:51 AM

I didn't know there was one until I found the dub of it. The second OVA is the chapter focused on Rachnera's previous host family.

WoodyAlien3rd from Persimmon Land (Italy) Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: Omelette du fromage~
#3175: Jul 30th 2017 at 4:07:16 AM

Okay just thumbed through those chapters 53 & 54 but I can't figure out what the hell is going on. So that's the mysterious broker, and he unleashed the dangerous girls as part of those experiments they're conducting in that sort of facility? What's going on with Suu and what about the giant monster? Was Rachnera actually working with the broker in order to have the 3 girls attack Kimihito and provide the results for the experiments? And another stupid cliffhanger at the end which just copies the Giant Suu/Giant Kii fight.

What I liked though is the big number of half-naked girls in the facility, especially the ones never seen before (love the arachnid and frog girl).

"Effective Altruism" is just another bunch of horsesh*t.

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