Back to this scene because I’m having a slight embolism and I really want to share this one. Let’s have a look at the original version of this line:
Akechi
所詮、烏合の衆⋯復讐なんて気概、アイツらにありませんよ。
shosen, ugou no shuu... fukushuu nante kigai, aitsura ni arimasen yo
No chance. They're nothing but cattle anyway... They have no backbone without his guidance.
Absolutely not. They're just cattle. Without him, they haven't the resolve for anything as strenuous as revenge.
Specifically, let’s have a look at this little phrase, 烏合の衆 ugou no shuu, translated as “cattle”. Does it look familiar?
How about that first kanji? Seen it before? Look, here it is a bit bigger:
Something missing from it, maybe?
THE PHRASE AKECHI USES THAT IS TRANSLATED AS “CATTLE” LITERALLY MEANS A MOB OF FUCKING CROWS. CROWS.
C R O W S.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Now, this is a valid translation. It’s a corresponding idiom: they say flock of crows, we say herd of cattle; the meanings are equivalent. But we have lost a little hint in there, invisible to Shido, that Akechi does not mean what he says.
Remember, “Crow” was the name Akechi chose for himself. He walked in saying “I think karasu (crow) would be a good codename”. So is he foreshadowing here, or even expressing, in a bitterly ironic way, what the Phantom Thieves will eventually tell him: you are more like us than you are not like us?
Or is he just using the idiom, without thinking? But he seems to think about every word he says, as is clear from the fact that so many of them have double meanings.
So when I said in my earlier post, “oh yeah, he actually does think the other Phantom Thieves are useless, he despises them”... I’m not so sure any more. I think there’s a bit of conflict here, which is why he evades the kill order on them.
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Blackstar Theater Starless - Black Live III & Blackstar IV Split
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BLACK LIVE III Blu-ray
DAY1 Disc / DAY2 Disc / Tokuten Disc
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BLACKSTAR IV
✨ Disc 1:
Hana wa Kasuka ni / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita) & Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA)
Mosquitone / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
Seaside Escape / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Kaijin ni Tsumi / Zakiro (Singer: Shakemii)
Idaten / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
Cry:Pta / Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
Hitoshizuku no Himitsu / Maica (Singer: Kradness) & Rindou (Singer: Ajikko)
That’s my life / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Ugou Shima (Akira ver.) / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Hakuchuumu / Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
PRISMATIC TEAR / Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto / Shinku Horou)
Too bad / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita), Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA), Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto / Shinku Horou), Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi), Rindou (Singer: Ajikko), Maica (Singer: Kradness), Sinju (Singer: Stungun), Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii), Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
– Special Track –
Scarlet Desire / Haseyama (Singer: SOPHIA Mitsuru Matsuoka)
White Wish / Unei (Singer: Masaki Ota)
✨ teamK Ver. Special Disc
Nami no mama ni / Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto)
caprice of love / Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA) & Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto / Shinku Horou)
Temptation Game / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita) & Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA)
Run away together / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita)
To the world / Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA)
UnlockU / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita)
The lament moon / Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA) & Maica (Singer: Kradness)
You are mine / Kei (Singer: Ray Fujita), Rindou (Singer: Ajikko), & Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA)
Hyakka no Sakigake / Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA) & Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto / Shinku Horou)
✨ teamW Ver. Special Disc
Kodoku no Yoru, Inori no Tsuki, / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Payback / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
ALL IN / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Nagori no Hana / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
Tsukikage Akaku / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
TURNT UP / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi)
MASTERMIND / Akira (Singer: Taro Kobayashi) & Yakou (Singer: Akito Matsumoto / Shinku Horou)
✨ teamP Ver. Special Disc
Trick or Truth / Maica (Singer: Kradness)
Luminous Snow / Rindou (Singer: Ajikko)
Hinageshi / Rindou (Singer: Ajikko)
Violet / Sinju (Singer: Stungun)
Futatsuboshi ga Deau Yoru / Maica (Singer: Kradness)
✨ teamB Ver. Special Disc
Kiraboshi / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
Fushichou / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
San B Uta / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
Kaikinisshoku / Heath (MC: Takuya IDE)
✨ teamC Ver. Special Disc
Kurenai ni Shiro / Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
Sword of love / Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
ermitage / Yoshino (Singer: Tomoki Saito / Academic BANANA) & Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
vow of love / Zakuro (Singer: Shakemii)
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set my sights (on you) by staqua
(T, 1.8K, 1/1)
Todoroki shrugs. "I was hoping you could help with that."
Well fuck. Katsuki thinks of the circular ones, thin gold frames that would bring out Todoroki's eyes or however the fuck that shit worked. Thinks of the thin rectangular ones like a sexy librarian and-
"-ugou? We're here."
Yeah. This'd either be the best or worst fuckin' idea.
OR: outta all the friends in their shared dweeb squad, Katsuki's not sure why Todoroki chose him to help look for glasses.
(but he's not complaining)
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