Oct 31, 2025
To:Pope Evaristus
haha! let's see if Moeka-sensei can pronounce Massachusetts properly! ..
You know, it's really funny you bring up Abenobashi because it was one of the things that popped into my head while I was looking for things to read/watch to get into the headspace for this one ...
Abenobashi was actually one of the shows that's been on my to-watch list since I was an impressionable teenager exposed to FLCL for the very first time and I wanted more and Abenobashi was the obvious choice, same studio and visual style et al. ..
Which makes it all the stranger when I have to confess I still haven't actually watched it. I don't sail the high seas anymore so if it's not on streaming I'm SOL-- BUT! I did make an attempt earlier this year. It's on YT, albeit in ... um ... dub. The original JP voice does exist, however the subs are in Espanol, which I don't know at all, so then I made an attempt to watch Ep 1 and try to see how much of it I could understand. Hey, life long anime watcher--surely I must have learned _some_ of the langauge through osmosis right?
Well, guess not, as I understood very little, as it turned out. (At least I can try and lay the blame squarely on their Kansai accents.) ... Well, dialogue aside, I was still following the story for the most part. .. At least I thought I did until they started to turn into mushrooms.
Alright, so then my next bright idea is, YT has that CC real time transcription service now right? So I'll just play the JP sub version alongside the English dub version, muted, with the CC transcdriptions turned on, and use that as like makeshift subs. .. Which was just a terrible experience all around, and makes sense why nobody sane would do this. ... (Maybe I should just watch the dub at this point.)
Wasn't streaming supposed to make this all easier!?!