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Making them distinct is one of the points I think the official localization nailed, so I don't have any advice to add beyond "look at how NISA did it". Both are characters marked by their normality, so their dialogue are something that the more you overthink, the more likely you are to stray off the mark. The actual content of their dialogue should also make their personalities come across differently enough even if there are no special tricks in the dialogue.

I actually don't have all that much to comment on. They're generally pretty good. The overall tone and humor is transmitted smoothly, and unlike with Danganronpa, I don't remember any situation where the language affected the difficulty of the mysteries (before anyone brings up case 5-3, no, that one was exactly as nonsensical in Japanese).

The first game is an Alex Smith translation, and like every Alex Smith translation, it gives me the same reaction of "this is an incredibly bold adaptation choice I would never have personally made, you very clearly know what you're doing, so I can strongly appreciate this being a translation that exists as long as it isn't the only translation that exists".

Then all the other games are the result of Janet Tsu doing a much safer and overall pretty flawless translation job (the frequent typos are a scripting issue, not a translation issue) while burdened with the consequences of Smith's more creative ideas for the first game. It's really funny how much loc-exclusive lore she had to bullshit on the side to make it viable for this series to be set in the US.

Exactly how I put it there: they're both hard workers devoted to the same Master. While they have their personal priorities, they're among the only three Apostles who can be called loyal to Maris, seeing that U-Olga is unaware of everything, while Holmes, Muramasa, and Moriarty are traitors.

Do you have any opinions and/or observations about Junko & Tsumugi (either as a romance or a platonic relationship)?

Technically most of my Shirogane posts are EnoShiro posts by default because I see the core of her character to be in the desire to be Junko instead of herself.

Their canon relationship is as otaku and waifu, the truest and purest form of love that is, but the parenthesis of the question makes it sound more like anon is about a Danganronpa S scenario where the two exist in the same plane of reality.

I think Shirogane would find a real Junko impressive, because she actually is, but wouldn't treat her like an absolute ideal like her canon counterpart those. Shirogane's issue is with finding her reality lackluster compared to the fiction she religiously consumes, so cooler things existing in her new reality doesn't solve the problem because there are still cooler things going on in anime.

A. A reference to some companion that Hakuno will have in EXTELLA 2 or 3

B. A reference to some companion that Hakuno will have in EXTRA Record exclusive content

C. Ronnie

He's been a consistently great addition to the comedy events, whenever he doesn't make himself wholly absent.

Aside from his joke threats to Olga, his most prominent character trait is being very dutiful. He inserted himself as Chaldea's administrative advisor only as an excuse to fulfill his Grand Servant mission, but since he's burden with that responsibility, he puts on the work to make Chaldea's operations run smoothly, be it by running Olga's errands without protest, or by taking proactive measures liking bringing Goredolf as a substitute director or playing along with obvious distractions so Olga can feel safe to handle missions with U powers.

On the flip side, he's incredibly apathetic to anything unrelated to his duties. That's a flaw shared with his matured self. We even get him in the Antioch Singularity swiftly dealing with Snow Tracks then peacing out because the rest of the Singularity has nothing to do with Hassans or Beasts. Azrael is the same but even more single-minded because he still doesn't have the Hassans to care about.

The one point where the young pre-Hassan feels different from his adult self is the way he seems to have fun with his violence, instead of being purely professional and merciful about it.

Heracles is already plenty characterized through Alcides. I consider this to be my best Alcides post, and I think it's the best place to answer your question too.

That fan is for the Lapse Club in the 11th anni's school setting. Kama and Molay make sense as members since they have an express interest in corrupting Fujimaru. Jinako, Osakabehime, and Metatron fit because they are distinctly lazy people.

Douman is probably only there because he's so cartoonishly evil that he felt like a natural inclusion. The choice really didn't give me the impression that ReDrop understands his character. He's surprisingly devoted to his responsibilities. We do have Arctic Summer World as an example of Douman encouraging Fujimaru to ignore the good of the world and have a good time, but that was Ibuki's idea, so it should be her at the Lapse Club instead.

Looking inwards in general is something I don't do unprompted. I exist in the world and that certainly means something to the people in my life, but I never felt like I have any responsibility over their impressions of me. I do have an annoyingly recurring tendency to being liked by people I don't respect in the slightest, which maybe could have been avoided if I cared more about controlling my image (or being a more openly confrontational person, I guess), but it sounds like too much (and too constant) extra work and I have much better things to do with my very limited time.

As for my relationship with gender, I don't think I can be anything other than cis because that requires having solid personal definitions of what masculinity and femininity are.

I was raised under house rules where everything I owned was also my sister's and everything she owned was also mine. Sure, our differences in age and gender gave us very different friend groups in school and consequently very different interests, but we did grow up encouraged to play with each other, freely using each other's toys, so the divide between what a boy can do and what a girl can was pretty non-existent. Some kids around me had strict ideas of masculinity but that was too alien to my home situation for me to be able to take them seriously. It all felt silly, arbitrary, and dumb to child me.

On a very similar note, my mother also tried to enforce some strict standards for a gentleman's behavior, but that was so incompatible with my father's conduct that I quickly could tell it was not that serious, and grew up following my father's example of not giving her arbitrary gender ideas genuine attention.

Living in the current culture turned gender into something I'm capable of earnestly examining and discussing, but my upbringing really grounds me centrally on the thought that the definitions of masculinity and femininity are very arbitrary, and not personally relevant to my experiences, so every engagement starts and ends with an attempt to figure out the other side's definitions. I feel like this "outsider" outlook certainly helps navigate conversations easier than people have personal stakes and opinions on these topics, but conversely, I'm not gaining anything from being in these discussions.