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I have some time this week so I cleaned up the auto subtitles from Youtube and ran it through DeepL for this episode.


Maomao's Diaires
“Hairpin”

Some day before Maomao was abducted

Jinshi-sama, Jinshi-sama.
What is it?
Lady Gyokuyou wants to see you.
Okay, I'll be right there.
Hmm.
Hmmmm.
What is it? It's annoying.
I demand an explanation!
What exactly are you talking about?
It's the hairpin. Why don't you wear the hairpin?
(Oh, I totally forgot.)
You, I don't think so, but…… did you sell it?
No, I didn't.
(I was going to.)
Really?
It's true.
(I told you I didn't sell it!)
Be sure to wear it next time.
Ah, stop nagging.

Here is a trivia from Maomao.
In neighboring countries,
hairpins have been worn as magical objects since ancient times.
It was believed that the pointed stick had magical powers and
also served as a talisman and a charm against evil……

Now

Shisui has left.
The hairpin...
The person who gave it to me is a stickler.
I hope it comes back to me
grudgingly like its former master.

Next episode, “The Shi Clan”
Her stage opens.

To be continued


猫猫のひとりごと
『簪』

猫猫がさらわれる前のある日のこと

壬氏様、壬氏様。
どうかしたか?
玉葉妃がお呼びです。
そうか、すぐ参る。
うん。
うーん。
何なんだ? 目障わりだな。
説明をしてもらおうか。
え、一体何のことでしょうか?
簪だ。どうして簪をつけてこない?
(ああ、すっかり忘れてた。)
お前、まさかとは思うが……売り払ってしまったんじゃ。
売っておりません。
(売るつもりだったけど)
本当か?
まことでございます。
(売ってないって言ってんだろ!)
今度は必ずつけてくるように。
あ、しつこい。

ここで猫猫の豆知識。
隣国では古来より、
簪を呪術具として身に付けていたらしい。
先の尖った細い棒に呪力が宿ると信じられ、
お守りや魔除けの役割も果たしていたとか…

現在

子翠は行ってしまった。
簪…
あれをくれた人が粘着質だから、
元の主に似て
恨みがましく戻ってきたらいいな。

次回、『子の一族』
彼女の舞台が幕を開ける。

つづく

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There are quite a few anime / manga related contents in UT magazine 2025 SPRING SUMMER Issue 12 from the Japanese clothing retailer UNIQLO.

  • Doraemon meets the Louvre
    • Interview with Yukiyo Teramoto, Director of Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 45th Anniversary
    • Kunio Okawara: The Visionary Behind Gundam's Mecha Designs
  • MANGA Curation
    • Interview with Junji Ito, Manga Artist of Uzumaki
    • Q&A with Hitoshi Iwaaki, Manga Artist of Parasyte
    • Q&A with the Team Behind Berserk

The PDF is downloadable for free at the linked page, the contents are in English and Japanese side-by-side.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Loulan said there was a purpose she brought Maomao there, which Maomao has yet to fulfill as far as we can see.

 

They pre-announced this would be released tonight after the latest episode aired and we can now see why, because it incorporated scenes from the episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The way Maria said "My throat doesn't hurt anymore!" it was like a line coming out of a throat medicine commercial 🤣

People's faces when they found out what they ate was panacea:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There was a matching number of assassins (that were not decoys) as number of guards, no one went for the prince and princess, did they not planned this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice switcheroo trick. Wolfram was a great fighter but was outsmarted.

It was both happy and sad to see Vincent and Bocchan in flashback.

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Diederich got a bit chubby for an English secret agent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The opening scene was intense, they manage to fit so much into it. I kept thinking of a certain other anime that had long recaps recently as a great contrast.

Poor guys who helped expose all the wrongdoings and got no voice lines, except one who was only credited as "Pyrz's son".

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And we had a whole episode of the great and emotional saving of Girtonia, only for the trash ex-prince to ruin it at the last minute. We knew he was going to do it, it was foreshadowed, and he did it, he broke the seal. You knew it was bad when you heard the demon lord said "well done".

We have maybe 2 episodes left I think? It'll be great to see how this concludes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Goddess was so impressed with Ageha that he grew a skill because of it. We can also say he moved her to go seek a remedy for his illness.

When Regulus did his sword training, Ageha said it was soft ground but we can see some rocks on it. Somebody could get hurt really badly if they fell on the wrong spot. But I guess in the world where a 3 year old can split the ground, a few rocks might have been no problem.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

So we found out

  • Shisui is Loulan
  • Suirei and Loulan are half-sisters sharing Shishou as a father
  • Shisui was Suirei's original name, which Shenmei forbid her to use (because it bears the character of the "Shi" clan) and Loulan borrowed it when she needed a name for her alternate identity

I don't understand why though Loulan's name has no "Shi" in it, I thought it was important that she is marrying to the emperor as a representative of her clan. I originally thought Loulan was a title (something like the Duke of Edinburgh) but they seem to treat it as her name.

 

The video has subtitles disabled so I used turboscribe.ai to help get the transcript.

カンナです。スペシャルメッセージ言います。映画、『小林さんちのメイドラゴ ン さみしがりやの竜』が、6月27日、金曜日に公開です。感動の超大作で す。小林も、トール様も、みんなかっこいいから、みんな絶対見てください。 えっと、えっと、イルルや、才川とかも出てるし、音楽もすごいし、その、えっ と、ドカーンって感じで、アクションもすごくて、とにかくすごいから見て、 100回見るのがノルマって、トール様が言ってた。じゃあ、エルマ様は、 101回見に行くって喧嘩してた。でも、そこまではしなくていい。じゃあ、映 画館で待ってます。絶対絶対、見に来てね。ばいばい。

Here is DeepL's translation, edited:

This is Kanna. I have a special message to say. The movie “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved” will be released on Friday, June 27th. It is an emotional blockbuster. Kobayashi, Thor-sama, and everyone is cool, so please watch it. Let's see, let's see, Iruru, Saikawa and others are in it, the music is amazing, it's like, uh, boom, the action is great, it's just amazing, so watch it, Thor-sama said the quota is to watch it 100 times. Then Elma-sama was fighting about going to see it 101 times. But you don't have to go that far. I'll be waiting for you at the cinema. Please definitely, definitely come to see it. Bye.


Also, 2 more commercials just came out on Kyoani's Youtube channel.

親子編 (Parent-child edition)
バトル編 (Battle edition)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Kurt created an onsen (hot spring) so onsen manju can be made.

The other shop’s owner: ???

Kudos to Yuri for reminding Kurt to get proper permission.

I think the manga executed the “manju kowai” joke better. You see this episode from the viewpoint of the other shop owner and he’s utterly confused by all the impossible things Kurt did.

Kurt managed to foil the meticulous plan by getting employed as the Margrave's chef in the short time before Lise arrived at their meeting.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Musk's 130-day mandate as a special government employee in the Trump administration was set to expire around May 30.

Thought many speculated before that Trump would let Musk soak up all the DOGE unpopularity and dump him at this time limit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The episode started with a recap of last episode's big twist reveal (a very bold choice on the author's part considering the chemical is extremely infamous in real life Japan). This episode continued with how the whole village was artificially constructed for a single purpose, and showed that almost all the villagers were German soldiers who saw our protagonist as English spies. That explained why Germany was reluctant to accept aid from England with all the strange cases around the area. So even though the German emperor was the Queen's grandson the relation between the two countries weren't very good apparently.

Sullivan was a prodigy, she could read fluently at the age of 3 and understood advanced chemistry.

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A little poison gas wasn't a problem to a hell of a butler.

There are still a number of episodes to go, I guess we'll see how they escape the village and how the Phantomhive servants fare against German soldiers in combat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

There are multiple ISPs that offer 10Gbps Internet service in Japan and South Korea, I imagine other densely populated cities might have them also. There is also the Swiss ISP that offers 25Gbps Internet service since 2021.

Though I agree it is probably more used for LANs.

 

Update:

"Idol" / YOASOBI (Oshi no Ko) won Top Global Hit from Japan, 1 of the main awards. It also won Song of the Year for Creators so totally 4 awards.

"Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" / Creepy Nuts (Mashle) won the main award Song of the Year, bringing up its total to 8. Creepy Nuts also won Best Japanese Hip Hop/Rap Artist.

"Lilac" / Mrs. GREEN APPLE (Oblivion Battery) won Karaoke of the Year: J-Pop with Mrs. GREEN APPLE winning the main award Artist of the Year.

more than words / Hitsujibungaku (Jujutsu Kaisen) won Best Japanese Alternative Song with Hitsujibungaku additionally winning Best Japanese Alternative Artist.

Feel free to comment if I missed any.


Original post:

The Oshi no Ko song also won Best Music Video, and is nominated for 2 of the main awards (Song of the Year and Top Global Hit from Japan) while YOASOBI is nominated for Artist of the Year.

Creepy Nuts / "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" (Mashle) won 7 subcategories, and are nominated for Artist of the Year / Song of the Year respectively.

The 6 main awards (Song of the Year, Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Top Global Hit from Japan, Best Song Asia) will be announced tomorrow (22nd May).

There are other anime songs / artists nominated / awarded, you can check the official site (it has English version) and Wikipedia entry for more details.

For those interested, tomorrow's ceremony will be streamed on Youtube from 19:30 JST.


From Wikipedia:

The 2025 Music Awards Japan, part of the Music Awards Japan series, is the inaugural award ceremony to be held at Rohm Theatre in Kyoto on May 21–22, 2025. It is organized by the Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA), an organization founded by five major Japanese music associations.

From the official site:

We will be conducting a rigorous voting process with over 5,000 voting members, consisting of music industry professionals from various fields, including artists, creators, recording company employees, promoters, music publishers, overseas music award judges.
Nominees and winners will be decided and awarded through strict voting by these members.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You made me realize a Maize Maze has a real part and an imaginary part.

 

goo dictionary” is a free dictionary service launched in 1999 by goo, a portal site operated by NTT DoCoMo.

The service offered Japanese language dictionaries, English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, thesaurus dictionaries, four-character idioms, kanji dictionaries, and terminology dictionaries from Shogakukan, Sanseido, Gakken, and other language dictionaries and terminology collections.

Goo announced this service will end by 25th June, after 26 years.

 

Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning just made a very interesting collaboration in Japan.

 

The mini-anime titled "Maomao's Diaries" is named "Gaoshun's Diaries" this week. Featuring such lines from Jinshi as:

  • (Refering to Suirei) Pretending to be a eunuch! It is so infuriating!
    Scene of Ka Zuigetsu pretending to be a eunuch

  • (Referring to Loulan) Allowing a maid to take her place without regard for her own position! Outrageous!
    Scene of Ah-duo posing as the crown prince

Gaoshun: Regrettable.

 

Lycoris Recoil Cafe's X account made a mojibake nonsense comment and linked to the cafe's website:

縲舌遏・繧峨○縲
蝟ォ闌カ繝ェ繧ウ繝ェ繧ウ蜈ャ蠑秋P縺ォ諤ェ螂?樟雎。縺檎函縺倥※縺翫j縺セ縺吶?
蠕ゥ譌ァ縺セ縺ァ蟆代??蠕?■縺?◆縺?縺代∪縺吶→蟷ク縺?〒縺吶?

When people fixed the mojibake, the tweet reads (translated):

【Notice】
There is a strange phenomenon on the official website of Cafe Lyco Reco.
We would appreciate it if you could wait for a while until it is restored.

Click on the link of the website and you'll see what it means.

 

Let’s say I’m logged in lemmy.zip. I discovered there is a programming themed instance at programming.dev and would like to check out what communities are available there. I can’t do it via search; it matches the search term with community name or description but not the instance name. I can go to programming.dev on a web browser and look at its list of local communities; but then I’ll have to search for each community I’m interested in in the app to subscribe with my lemmy.zip account.

Is this doable in the app?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/37609260

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ‘s Imperial palace said Thursday that it has fired an employee for stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen ($24,900) from Emperor Naruhito and his family over more than a year.

Thought somebody who worked in such proximity to the Imperial family would have been thoroughly vetted……

 

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ‘s Imperial palace said Thursday that it has fired an employee for stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen ($24,900) from Emperor Naruhito and his family over more than a year.

Thought somebody who worked in such proximity to the Imperial family would have been thoroughly vetted……

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