I also LOVE the detail that Marina is showing her ears in her latest song!! She usually hides them, as they鈥檙e a giveaway that she鈥檚 an Octoling, but it seems she鈥檚 gotten more comfortable showing them with time 馃┓ Possibly helped by her singing with Shiver in this song, who is an open Octoling!
I had really fun with this splatfest! The OTH shows were great and tricolor was more fun than usual in mu opinion (the map has been a bit polarizing though from what I've seen. I enjoyed it myself.
Do not under any circumstances trust people who are vocal about hating Pearl. And if they say they hate her because "she's ugly" then you need to burn all bridges immediately and run.
yeah so I just read through all of Marina's Dev Diaries in Japanese while cross checking it to English localization, just to see how faithfully translated it is and....
GREAT NEWS there's like no significant changes! Like there's the expected minor moving things and wording it different to flow well in english of course, but in terms of overall meaning and characterization its very faithful.
I'll cover some minor changes I found but like. again these are so minor it doesn't really matter.
4th Entry
Localization: "Poor Pearl doesn't know what to do with a free moment anymore. I'm always catching her bouncing with anticipation."
JP: "Pearl is always bouncing from side to side whenever she has a free moment"
This is a reference to Pearl's side hops she did in octo expansion to get hyped and charge her special...this was localized to her "warming up her vocal cords" for the sake of story and the english version just refuses to acknowledge the side hops thing which is. minor inkling biology tidbit at most but eh whatever
8th Entry
localization: "I'll handle system management myself! And I think user guidance would be a great fit for Pearl."
imo in JP marina seems more certain and enthused about pearl being in charge of user guidance? I considered not adding this to this post it's barely noteworthy. pearlina crumbs ig
8th Entry
Localization: "All that experience making training stages from my days as a tutor at that training program is about to pay off!"
JP specifies that Marina tutored at a Takozones training program.
What's really annoying is that Takozones are just called something like "Rival Octoling" or "Enemy Octoling" or just "Octoling" in english, but they're supposed to be a specific rank of elite female octoling soldiers. this is just a longtime issue with how muddied octarian classifications are between english and jp lol
12th Entry
Localization: "Pearl is joining us too. She doesn't seem to get what it's all about, but she's usually down for whatever. Together, the two of us will make sure Eight gets through it safe!"
JP: "Pearl is joining us too. With her being like "I don't really get it, but 'cuz it sounds like fun I'll go!", us two will keep Eight safe!"
This is a super minor change but it's cute getting a quote from pearl where she sounds actually hyped for it vs a "yeah ig shes down for it"
Acht's Letter 1
Localization: ""You should be diligent and dedicated, like a true Octarian!" I heard it so many times that it turned into white noise."
I just wanted to share a pun here that doesn't translate
instead of "white noise" Acht says an equivalent idiom of "I got calluses on my ears (from hearing the same thing over and over)" The word for "callus" is homophonous with "octopus", tako. lol octopus jokes
personallyi think they could be the next splatoon idols actually. they have such beautiful singing we should get these fuckers on inkopolis news IMMEDIATELY,