Forum - View topicHas there ever been 1337 speak in a manga?
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Super Baka Kimura
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Well, has there?
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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Maybe if you count the random "Kitaaaaaaaa!" and kaomoji in the Densha Otoko adaptations.
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v1cious
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in Gantz, the ball speaks in l33t speak... but this was a scanlation, so i don't know if the japanese version is like that.
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Wolverine Princess
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Well, there's a lot of 1337 humor in MegaTokyo, but it's an OEL title, not manga.
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darkhunter
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Not sure what's important about this thread, but I'll chime in. X-Day has tons of l33t speak when the characters are chatting with each other online and it has a realistic feel to it.
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HitokiriShadow
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The Gantz ball 'speaks' with backwards kanji/kana/letters and doesn't always use proper grammar. It's not really l33t speak. One of the scanlated chapters was done in l33t speak as a joke though. That was pretty funny. ---------- I don't know if Japan has an equivalent of "l33t speak." If it doesn't, then it certainly wouldn't appear in any manga. But has anyone heard of that Christian american 'manga' called Serenity? It's about some 'bad girl' and some kids at her school trying to convert her and it's so bad its amusing (and this is coming from a Christian). I noticed volume 4 at Borders the other day and glanced at it and there is one part where two characters are IMing each other and it tries to immitate net speak. But it is quite clear that the script writer had never actually read any netspeak. |
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outlawwolf
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I've heard of it and for the sake of continuing to be an anti-religious christian, I will not even read it, even for the so bad it's good humor.
Also, I don't think the japanese are in the habit of abusing their language like we are. |
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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uh, that's a total misconception (the japanese arn't above us) Just like how we have slang, there are japanese street slang that many regular american anime fan might not be aware of because it's not express in most anime/manga. Last edited by darkhunter on Mon May 01, 2006 2:24 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Saturn
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yeah, the Japanese have deconstructed their language at least as well as Americans have English
 As for net speak, the equivalent would prolly have to be the emoticon/katakanago type stuff you see on forums like 2ch-- stuff like
(*´Д`)ﾊｧﾊｧ and, as someone mentioned, ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!! |
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hentai4me
 Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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thats a Russian Cyrillic character, sounds like 'D' as in 'Date' so wh would the japanese use it in their 'netspeak'? |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#East_Asian_style |
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hentai4me
Posts: 1313 Location: England. Robin is so Cute! |
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yes...but why use a character from a different language for it? we dont go around using Kanji in our netspeak... |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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Because the shape of Д is similar to an open mouth of a worrying face, while ∀ represents a smiling one. |
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outlawwolf
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Holy crap! Really? Are you for cereal? Cause I've just been telling that to just about every japanophile for as long as I can remember. I didn't mean that they don't have slang, I'm well aware that every country in the world has their own slang dialect used by the youth of that said nation. |
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frentymon
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The most slang that I have heard is are "ae" and "ai" being inverted into "ee" (urusai=urusei, omae = omee). I never quite understood that, and it seems to be something used only by boys and tomboys.
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