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Q: Why does Ayaka Ohashi have the nickname "Hego-chin"?

Ayaka Ohashi is a Japanese voice actress (seiyu). She has nicknames such as "Hasshī" and "Hego-chin". The word "Hasshī " is thought to be derived from her family name "Ohashi" . However, there is no character anywhere in her name that could be the source of the sound "Hego-chin". These days, she'...

voice-acting

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Memor-X

2:15 AM

^ twitter.com/kaifu_ato/status/1315361151560032256/photo/1

^ twitter.com/monn_ney/status/1321481104184934400/photo/1

it's Catra's Birthday today/yesterday depending on timezone

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Dimitri mx

8:46 AM

morning

Memor-X

9:31 AM

morning

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JNat

11:23 AM

mornin'

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Sakamoto

2:50 PM

Q: Toradora: At the very last episode after the credits when taiga comes back, did she come back to stay or did she just visit?

Toradora: at the last episode after the credits when taiga comes back , did she come back to stay or did she just visit?

toradora

Derpy

3:18 PM

SCOOP!!! LEAKED PICTURE OF THE NEW DRAGONBALL SUPER SEASON!!!

Now with 20% more Baby Frieza

@Sakamoto mumble... let me check.....

Yep, I KNEW someone had to do this.

She was a friend all along.

Derpy

4:01 PM

(btw, this also reminds me I still have to find a better storage place for the Taiga figure I had rescued from an anime con)

Eddie Kal

A while ago I asked a Toradora! question on Lit

Q: Freudian/psychoanalytical interpretation of the triangular relationship in Toradora!

The central theme in the Japanese light novel/manga Toradora! (とらドラ!) around which the entire story unfolds is the love triangle between the male protagonist Takasu Ryuji and his two girl friends, Aisaka Taiga and Kushieda Minori (Minorin). At the beginning of the story Ryuji has a crush on Minor...

character-analysis japanese-literature manga toradora

Derpy

4:19 PM

@EddieKal I am not a fan of Freud, nor psychology in general. I had always had that felling that "If I can't understand my mind, how can I explain others?". But as for your question....

It seems that the average relationship in Japanese stories follow some common tropes.

First, no one shall be happy.

Eddie Kal

@Derpy I share your distaste for psychology, but Freudian ideas are a different animal

Derpy

At best you reach a status-quo of "open relationship but"

See the teaching of the Two Of Spades Sensei, Makoto Shinkai

Voice of a distant star? Enjoy your relationship mixed with General Relativity.

5 Centimeters Per Second? Spend your life regretting, then do nothing when you meet her again

Eddie Kal

@Derpy "Two Of Spades Sensei"?

I have seen some of Shinkai's works, but can't remember the details or the stories

Derpy

@EddieKal In tarots, the two of spades represents a crossroad.

So, many cultures give it a meaning of "you were dumped", the two meet and go separate ways

Eddie Kal

I see

Derpy

4:27 PM

The fact that the "spade" symbol is similar to an upside down heart helps.

and if you look at many Shinkai words, he seem to love love stories going wrong

Voice of a distant Star probably being the worst one.

Anyway, another thing I notice is that any triangle shall be resolved in only two different ways:

a) one options dies (also known as the Aerith Principle) or...

b) one option sacrifices themselves for the sake of the other.

Toradora is option b, Minori was lucky that Truck-chun wasn't around, or she would probably have been removed from the picture more drastically.

As for your question, isn't one of the themes in Toradora that both characters were pursuing an impossible ideal and not noticing what they already had?

Hence the reference to the Dragon and the Tiger destined to be together mentioned both at the start and the end of the comic/anime?

Eddie Kal

@Derpy Hmm but they are not together at the beginning of the story like they are at the end

Their love interests were not each other

But feelings change and some feelings develop between them

Derpy

I don't know, I got the felling that the story implies some form of destined connection that they were fighting against in a way by looking at someone else

Eddie Kal

I mean that's a totally valid reading of it

And the thing about psychoanalysis, which is a totally different discipline from psychology, is psychoanalysis is not about what the author intended

Derpy

4:45 PM

anyway, I somehow fear the question will stay ignored.

Eddie Kal

@Derpy I agree with your analysis of relationships portrayed in Japanese narratives. A lot of people often talk about some ideas when they discuss Japanese culture: wabi sabi, the aesthetic idea that life is imperfect, and it has to be imperfect, that is just the way it is, and it is sad but also extremely beautiful because it is imperfect

There's also this idea that the transience of happiness is the saddest and most beautiful thing ever (物の哀れ mononoaware)

Derpy

To be fair, while I recognize the themes you mention here, the way I was suggesting it was that often they choose the easy-out.

Eddie Kal

Also love shouldn't be direct, straightforward, or showy. It should be implied, inhibited, because feelings are delicate. There's a popular saying in Japan: Japanese people don't say "I love you"

@Derpy You mean all anime creators choose the easy way out?

Derpy

@EddieKal I mean that I usually see three endings:

A) no resolution => Orange Road (mythical lazy )
b) girl (always the girl) dies => Cloud&Tifa&Aerith (lazy)
c) one of the two options quit the fight and start working to make the other option win => Toradora (somehow lazy)

also, it is mostly two girls, one boy.

unless you step into the "too many options" - see Ranma & Co in which case there is only one "right option" and all the other are there only for added drama

Eddie Kal

5:02 PM

But there's also a lot of works with a happy-ending style resolution

I watch/reach too much to remember specific details but just some recent ones I watched

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, the guy from outer space stays on earth forever with the girl

Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, all the main characters basically pair up at the end

Derpy

@EddieKal Was the relationship the focus of the story? Doesn't count otherwise :P

Eddie Kal

@Derpy I'd say yes about the two I have listed.

Derpy

Let me see.....

> Since long ago, human civilization had lived on the ocean floor. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two.
After their school-(Nami Middle School) closes down, four 14-year-old middle school students from the sea village, Shioshishio, have to attend Mihama Middle School on the surface. What follows is their struggles to adjust to a new environment and the relationships between the sea and land people, while dealing with their own newfound feelings that have just started appearing with the …

Eddie Kal

I am racking my brain trying to think of more. I can't remember what else I have watched in the past year. A lot but I am blanking on the titles

@Derpy Yeah and the story revolves around who likes who and why can't the main guy be with the main girl, and why the heck does the girl die at the end of the first season (she doesn't die, just gone for a whle)

And the twist in the second season is: why the heck does the girl come back missing her ability to love

Derpy

naaaah, too much plot in this one, enough to avoid the curse. It only applies when the relationship of a couple is the central point and everything else is just needed for background :P

Eddie Kal

5:11 PM

lol

I don't know what to say to that

I see your point, and I agree this much: Japanese narratives seldom show ラブラブ (love-love, meaning a happy relationship)

We don't often see a couple joined at the hip, showing off their affection and remain happy throughout the story

That doesn't happen

But resolutions do exist

Derpy

yep, I know, I was mildly joking in there.

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Sakamoto