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
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
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.
Reaction Image RepositoryI 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.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI 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.
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.
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.
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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.
edited 18th Jul '17 10:35:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryThe 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.
I'd personally like the family to be a bit more quirky, but that's just me.
Reaction Image RepositoryI 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.
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
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.

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?