You're not even a real robot-girlfriend-waifu...you're both analog and acoustic! [Dramatic gasps]
But yes, reasonable translations (translation itself meaning "to carry across [meaning]") with context notes are vastly superior to whatever political-agenda-charged rewrites "professional"*...
I pray you are correct. Although, while de jure/officially they aren't "dating", de facto/in reality they have been dating (and basically cohabiting) for months.
Or, to explain it another way, Medieval Denmark be like:
"Mansion" is a loanword (garaigo) whose meaning shifted in Japan, where it specifically means "apartment block" or "apartment complex" instead of "manor house". In this case, it was back-translated literally.
Edit: And lesseffective beat me to it. At least there's a Wikipedia list with more...
As one who has traveled through the ancestral cradle of all Gals, the San Fernando Valley, I ask that the Gyaru Vanguard spare me once the Genki Triumvirate (of Gyaru, Tomboys, and Childhood Friends) finishes their conquest of Earth. :salute:
Listen, I was in Deshaan yesterday, and Almalexia and Vivec have been really quiet since this chapter dropped. :meguusmug:
Continuing my previous nerdy ponderings, it's not so much Sou's smile being out of the ordinary (to us) so much as this world has had some crazy evolutionary pressure put...
Going back and rereading the first chapters, rather than going "hurr, dumb tsundere", I feel bad for Rimu.
She already realized (back in chapter 2) that intellectually, she knows she can't keep Takeshi's power (and his hands) to herself, but emotionally, she hates it. With that first...
Yup, my first thought was "acute panic/anxiety attack", and hypoxia from too-shallow breathing/elevated heart rate does make a lot of sense for as far as a mechanism goes.
PK'ers in anime/manga: Epic dastardly villains who love drawn-out fights of skill and hidden elaborate mechanics
PK'ers in actual games: Griefers who hot-mic profanities and use quick, cheap exploits.
Barring magical-skill-reason shenanigans, the dopamine and oxytocin combo would make most girls at least want to feel clingy and snuggle while on the happy-brain-chemical high.
To paraphrase my favorite deconstruction of the "getting your boobs massaged makes them bigger" myth, "If a girl gets...