See the first chapter. Alya flirts with Kuze-kun in Russian, thinking he can't understand her, when in reality he can due to (a) picking up Russian from his grandfather's love of Russian movies, and (b) interacting with a mysterious Russian girl he used to hang out with at a local park when he was young. (Said girl turns out to be Masha, not Alya, as we find out later in the light novel). Kuze-kun figures that Alya would freak out/pass out if he revealed his secret to her, due to the relatively intimate things she said to him; so he keeps it to himself, also figuring she would be more truthful while commenting to him in Russian if she continues to think he can't understand her.
Dude, its the same thing as with the koreans, and their "duke of the north" shoujo manhwa love interest trope. Its such a part of the culture(?) its simpler to accept it.
Well, its kinda your problem. The characters there most likely wouldnt really have perfect russian pronunciation, what with their constant moving between two countries and thus, most likely, irregular usage of russian.
Weeeeeell, russia in large will be a different world for japanese person
For one, them nippons can't hold their liquor and does not know shit how to drink responsibly xD
Probably not. It depends on the level of troubledness. A lot of people like to tease others, but not actually hurting them. It's kind of like saying you're a masochist if you think it feels good to scratch yourself.
At first, he didn't think it worth commenting on, since she was just blowing off steam in general. No point in embarrassing her unnecessarily, after all.
Fwiw the English dub legitimately has good Russian, and the English VA cast has done a great job with the dub so far. I found the Japanese dub unwatchable because her Russian was barely intelligible, but I have no problem understanding what the English VA is saying in Russian and the show is pretty great in English too.
I should mention, as I did at the end of the previous chapter, that we don't translate the russian text and that it's best to ignore it. Russian and japanese are two wildly different languages, and while the russian text is direct with its meaning, the ultra literal translation of the jp text is something like "The reason for omitted topic is omitted subject doesn't know anything omitted predicate object" which just drops any indicator of what the subject is. Based on the context, it makes the most sense (in our opinion) that she is referring to his lack of knowledge about the flowers, "you're choosing those flowers? You gonna propose? Nah, it's because he doesn't know anything (about what the flowers mean)." rather than talking about her not knowing how a proposal is done or something like that. Also, the russian text has in the past, as commented by other russian spakers, been pointed out as being somewhat unreliable, also sometimes being completely different from what the jp raws say.
I was unable to find the images actually posted on her personal twitter account, but I did find them posted by the official roshidere twitter account https://x.com/roshidere/status/1814254607507288259Good to see the anime getting its deserved success.
That "fetish, aye sir" part
I really hope the recording took more than one day, as it was depicted. That'd seem really exhausting to me...
Also, could someone find the art sample to be found somewhere on X mentioned on page 19? I did a quick search but didn't find it...
Oh, thanks! I have a gander at that. And yeah, from trailer alone it was apparent what jdub actress tried, probably tried really hard, but it still 11 kinds of off the mark every time
Sheeeeet, a shame, she prolly had a C- on speaking
or never been to russia and had some practice, speaks really bad, and I had known couple of japanese students who were learning russian and linguistic, and well, they still spoke poorly, made lot of mistakes, but nothing this bad.nuh uh
