Comments on: Japanese and Dimensions

By: Akatsukin

Akatsukin — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:56:26 +0000

For full disclosure, I knew that it was more metaphorical than literal, but that was the translation decision I made at the time and I don’t regret it. Thanks for taking the time to write out this whole explanation though.

By: htsuji

htsuji — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:11:36 +0000

“Jigen ja nai / Jigen dewa nai” is a commonly used Japanese phrase when something is completely…
1. unexpected
2. out of question
3. off topic
4. too different from something currently discussed to compare
or such. (You don’t need to think of correct definition with geometry here. It is a metaphor.)

While Yuzu and Kaede expected Yuu could buy a yakisoba bread or a cup yakisoba. They are different but that is still not completely. For instance, you can make a yakisoba bread from a cup yakisoba easily — just by putting some noodle in the cup onto a bread.
But as for the yakisoba flavored Pokitz, that was far from what Yuzu and Kaede expected. What they felt there was something like: “We had a argument which was more likely for Yuu to buy something as yakisoba. And finally, we found the answer that was completely unexpected!”

If I make the subtitle, I would like to write, “The answer is out of the question!”

By: sweet_kungfuman

sweet_kungfuman — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:07:29 +0000

ooh i see ^^. I rarely hangout on irc so I didn’t know any of this, thanks a lot for the info!

By: Kitty

Kitty — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:12:54 +0000

what this post has to do with evetaku is this:
a) it requires you to actually be in #evetaku irc channel to understand a bit and
b) it’s a running joke that requires you to understand how everyone is like, but here to explain how it goes is this:
v1.5 is basically a running joke on #evetaku because one of their TLs, puddi, did that with an episode once, where instead of calling it a v2, it’s a v1.5 and there’s the joke, because some people have actually had v3 releases, so the joke’s there (gdi explaining jokes kills them)[also, latter half of explanation may or may not be most accurate reason]

By: Moshi Moshi

Moshi Moshi — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:12:53 +0000

How autistic do you have to be to not understand this joke?

By: sweet_kungfuman

sweet_kungfuman — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:57:58 +0000

mmm … I’m more interested in why you’re making this post and what is this has to do with evetaku … because for me, the joke is pretty clear even without the explanation, and I also don’t see people raging about it on your web o.o;

By: EinsamerWanderer

EinsamerWanderer — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:34:02 +0000

My two cents: I think something more along the lines of “That’s a level lower than even a cup” would work better, but the whole thing can be understood on context regardless of the wording.

By: zyzz4evr

zyzz4evr — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:34:42 +0000

>taking the b8
Come on man, I thought you were better than this.

By: A. Crush

A. Crush — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:01:18 +0000

>There is an inherent irony and humor in how far gone the Pokitz is from the original

Even without the Japanese context, and not connecting the part where they were discussing flavors, I thought the joke was pretty obvious,
although it really only works in Japan since they have the snacks that are the flavor of actual foods. Of course, that’s funny in and of itself as well, in addition to someone picking it out as a lunch for someone who requested “Yakisoba”.

The use of “dimension” might be confusing to some people, but as long as you get how far removed the snack is from anything Yuzu and Kaede were expecting, even cup noodles, it works. Guess it helps to know that the “food” flavors of snacks are still funny/weird to Japanese people, too, and humor like this pokes fun at one of the possible (but absurd) consequences of the existence of food-flavor snacks.

By: Kajitani-Eizan

Kajitani-Eizan — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:36:17 +0000

I am no expert in Japanese, but I don’t think this works on an English or a Japanese level. Pocky sticks are (sort of) one-dimensional, but it’s still a really obtuse joke. More importantly, I don’t think that’s what the line was saying… the remaining relevant piece of context that you didn’t mention is that the girl was chanting “Cup! Cup! Cup!” right before (as she was the one guessing they would bring back yakisoba cup noodles). I am guessing the meaning was more like, loosely, “What planet is this?”.