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Guide to Understanding Genocider’s Many Names

Genocide Jack has many names and it can hard to understand why so many people use different ones or spell them differently, so I attempted to make a guide that is as comprehensible as possible.

Something to know before hand

Kanji: More complicated, such as 翔

Hiragana: Simple and smooth, such as しょう

Katakana: Simple and sharp, such as ショウ

Let’s get the “Genocide” part out of the way

This part of her name is written in katakana, (ジェノサイダー) and you’ll notice the line at the end. This means the sound is extended, so instead of “da” it’s “dā”. Japanese doesn’t have an “er” so this is used instead, since they sound similar. Her official title is Genocider. The localization simply switched this is be Genocide. I’m not sure why, maybe since Genocider isn’t actually a word, but that’s just my best guess.

Syo VS Sho

Here’s where it get complicated.

In order to make sounds like “kyo”, “bya”, or “ju”, two hiragana are need. First, a character ending in i, such as ki, bi, or ji, characters pronounced like ka or bu cannot be used. Second, one of the three y’s (ya, yo, or yu) in a smaller form.

The character “ki” (き), combined with “yo” (よ), would make “kiyo”. But if the “yo” is written smaller (よ→ょ) then the “i” from the first hiragana is replaced by it. So since きよ is Kiyo, きょ is Kyo. Same for “bya”. びや is Biya, so びゃ is Bya.

Now, we have our “exceptions”, shi (し) and ji (じ). You’ll notice they look very similar, which is why they are both “exceptions”. For “ji” (じ) and “yu”, (ゆ) rather than jyu it’s just ju (じゅ). It’s different since in the case of kyo and ko, it’s a whole other sound, but jyu and ju are pronounced the same, so the y isn’t needed.

But in all my examples, you’ll notice the first hiragana is two letters, which is why it gets tricky for “shi”. Like jyu, shyo is unnecessary, however, h and y are pronounced the same here, so you can remove either one and get the same sound.

Quick Note: I used “kyo”, “bya”, and “ju” as examples since there are Danganronpa characters with those in their names, but, just to clarify, they aren’t the only combinations possible.

The reason I put exceptions in quotes is because this is romanization, there is no rule book saying you must write it this way. While Sho is the most common way to write this, it doesn’t mean Syo is wrong. In fact, the games themselves use this.

However, they also use Sho.

So, really, both are correct.

Syou VS Syo / Shou Vs Sho

> I’ll be calling her Sho/Shou here for convenience.

翔 should be spelt with a “u”, since it’s しょ“sho” then う “u”, so “shou”. Still, a lot of times the u is excluded because it doesn’t sound too different in English. English speakers pronounce “Shuuichi” and “Shuichi” the same, so I suppose the u is unnecessary. You’ll find this is common in a lot of different translations. Even Japanese media that use the alphabet, like the pictures above, will sometimes leave out the u, if following an o or another u.

Jack & Jill

These are just the titles that are strictly English. Since the whole thing about Syo in the beginning was that she’s a serial killer, society will assume it’s a man, so the public will give her a masculine name. In English, people will hear Sho and see it’s foreign, so there’s no gender association. I think it was changed that way so we’d see it as masculine. While I think they should’ve kept her Japanese name like everyone else in the game, I cannot deny how easily Genocide Jack rolls off the tongue.

Overall

All the names work, use whatever you want.

I hope this made sense to at least one person. If it doesn’t, feel free to ask for further clarification!

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What canon manga ending

It's Byakuya and Senku time again

I've tried to put into words how Senku feels about Byakuyas death and I finally think i understand a fraction of it. Senku feels guilty. So so guilty because he never got to tell Byakuya how grateful he is, how much he loves him, he never got to see his father one last time.

But more than that, the guilt crushes him because he sees the way Byakuya cares for him every day. The village was a gift from Byakuya to him, the platinum was gift from Byakuya to him, Lillians record was a gift from Byakuya to him. Senku has to live every day, is able to survive another day because of his dad. Byakuya always planned for exactly what he thought Senku would need, he as and always will do whatever is necessary for his son to succeed and yet Senku will never be able to do the same, he will never be able to do the same for his dad as his dad did to him. His dad gave everything he could to Senku up until his dying breath.

Senku feels guilty because he's been aware of how much his dad has done for him up until his dying breath and the only thing he can do now for his dad is to revive humanity, even if he has to die to do so.

I've been drawing DCST stuff like all night, and I'm actually pretty proud of this one. I am just sad I draw so small--this is 100% res... Ah well.

My #1 kinny ♥ Senku the best

Sometimes it's ok to be wrong and irrational about things for as long as you are willing to aknowledge that the thing you think is fucking stupid. I have an irrational pet peeve about people who are super slow eaters. Like it just irrationally annoys me when you're having a meal with someone and they're like num num num num num uwu like they've got a gerbil-sized mouth in a human-sized body and can only take bites the size of a fingernail clipping.

It's like walking behind a slow walker but you can't like climb over their shoulder or anything. You just have to sit there and wait and watch them swallow one atom at a time, consuming one single sandwich at the same speed as rust eating an abandoned tractor. Watching their meal get cold before they're halfway through, and watching it start growing mould in the corners because they can't finish their food before something faster than them starts eating it.

I know people don't do that on purpose and it's entirely irrational of me to be frustrated about it, but

aaaaaaaaargh.

kusuo who got too used to his mom taking pictures of him so when aiura holds up her phone for a quick selfie kusuo instinctively smiles at the camera and holds it until aiura is done