randomthoughtpatterns:

randomthoughtpatterns:

Sure, but he’s talking for most of the chapter so you’ll have to tell me which ones you mean.

I got some clarification on this ask. So, the question was more about the way Furuta talks than any specific lines.

Nothing groundbreaking here to be honest, except there’s one funny joke I’ll spend entirely too much time explaining. Let’s roll. By the by, the major thing that becomes immediately apparent is that Furuta talks in different ‘voices’ represented visually by different fonts. He speaks in normal voice when he’s serious, but every time you see him smile he’s speaking in a mocking, childish voice. (sorta like trolling with “uwu pwease mistew”). Pity if they don’t get Miyano Mamoru to CV him, he’s one of the few people who can really pull off such duality.

Anyway: the word Furuta uses for ‘real swordfight’ is funny because it breaks the 4th wall a little. It wasn’t really used to mean ‘real swordfight’, but instead was used specifically for the climactic swordfight right at the end of a movie back when practically all Japanese movies were about samurai. So this line can totally be read as “I’ve always wanted to try [drawing] a real good fighting scene” in Ishida’s voice.

The next line Furuta says has a double meaning and both of them are shitty puns. He says, “Useless shogunate!” Now, keeping in mind his previous line, this is clearly him continuing to play-act the samurai movie he thinks he’s in. OTOH, this line is a meme. So backing up a little, the Kamakura shogunate in Japan was officially established in 1192 (or it used to, schools now teach it was in 1185). No one could remember all these dates without a good ole’ mnemonic, and the mnemonic for 1192 was “let’s make a good country [with the help of] Kamakura shogunate” (’a good country’ is ii-kuni and the numbers spelled out are ichi-ichi-ku-ni). At some point imperialistic worldview fell out of fashion and people noticed that ‘Kamakura’ sounds like ‘namakura’, meaning “useless”/”weak”. So the mnemonic became “let’s make a good country [with the help of] a useless shogunate amirite”.

The crazier Furuta gets the more he starts talking in memes and internet slang to the point you’d think he spent the last 20 years being a 2ch admin.

There’s also a lot of double meanings whenever he talks. In addition to examples above, he uses the kanji for “the world” when he offers Kaneki to play house. I think he might be offering they prepare the world for the eating, Nidhogg style (if we go with the dragon imagery, or maybe

Ouroboros), since “playing house” in Japanese is written as “preparing meals”.

Then he calls Kaneki associate special class & uses the wrong kanji again: instead of 「準特等」he uses 「純特淘」which doesn’t particularly make any sense tbh. It’s just weird. There’s a lot of this shit, like when he calls stabbing Kaneki ‘sealing the letter’ and ‘omotenashi’ (google this, it’s a concept). Furuta is random when he gets going.

Also I hope everyone was as thoroughly entertained by Ishida drawing Furuta as Amon (a demon from Devilman) as I was. Too bad Ishida has abandoned the Tarot symbolism because we could’ve had fun with the Swords. But since we’re all about religion this time around, it’s probably the Michael vs Lucifer throwdown.