Tokyo Debunker imagines & theories

Mod Jirou

the blog's primary owner & mod

not sure how to run a blog

does it anyway

a few things in common with starter boy:

deadpan humor

looks tall and spooky but is very, very weak

the picture of Terrible Health & Lifestyle Habits but somehow still able to look after other people pretty well?

diagnosed workaholic

tries to be professional. gives up. tries again.

hard to tell through text when im enthusiastic

loves one (1) hatsune miku-colored mad scientist boyfail

Tired™

Mod Rui

Blonde Lover

Can run a blog, just low motivation to do so (Mod Jirou helps in this aspect)

Computer Geek and Sleep prone

Introvert

Hyperfixation GOES NYOOOOMMM

I can and will bite people.

Has no idea what to put here to stretch it out

A few things in common with Starter boy:

Can Flirt, Backs off really fast when its reciprocated

Doesn't like being touched (for different reasons)

Up all Night

Wears clothes that covers up a lot

we invite comments, submissions, and asks! talk to us and we'll say stuff back like NPCs.

thanks for reading! here's some closeups of our starter boys, from their casual wear cards:

Have you ever downloaded any text file in Japanese but when you opened it, they're all garbled, undecipherable text? That's most likely because the original JP text is encoded using Shift JIS and your computer couldn't read it一as most non-Japanese device do.

Kyklos' lines in Japanese are actually the result of an SJIS (old, deprecated) decoder trying to read a UTF-8 (modern) encoded string thus, it resulted in a garbled text. All you have to do is convert them back into the UTF-8 encoding and it will be readable. Here is the result, courtesy to Fujino-san:

English translation:

Guider: Oh, dear Master ......Can you hear my voice? I have brought you the Queen.

※ I translated 案内人 directly as it is but I'm not very sure if I capture the nuance right. "Guider" here is as in a navigator, an escort, the person who can guide you from one place to another.

Fujino-san had also confirmed that the displayed text on the English version is simply the result of trying to open an SJIS encoded text on a non-Japanese PC. So it's not the result of JP text → EN translation → garbled text, they're both actually encrypting the same Japanese text! Simply put:

JP → UTF-8 encoded text being opened as SJIS

EN → opening an SJIS encoded text on a computer outside Japan

Below is my personal thoughts regarding this revelation:

All this time we all thought that Kyklos is the last boss. That she is THE Big Bad and, in a way, MC's "goal". But now that we know she's basically just an escort and there's the existence of a "Master", this opened up to new possibilities. We used to wonder why would the Kyklos cursed MC in the first place and now we have a tiny bit of light to this. The Kyklos is working for someone else but... just who is this entity that the Kyklos refers to as her "Master"?

The way the shadows started clapping at MC's arrival, how the Kyklos spoke as if addressing a royalty... How is MC the "Queen"? Who (or perhaps "what") is supposed to be her subjects?

After recontextualizing the situation, I thought the cut off word is "She"一like when you capitalize the pronouns of higher/divine beings. But the cut off JP word is "シ" (shi, in Katakana) and I'm not sure if "Here stands She" is correct grammarly anyway so I think I was off base. Still, due to the capitalization in English, I'd like to think that it either stands for a name or perhaps a title.

To end this post, I'll bring up how Fujino-san pointed out that some of the compounds of the garbled text could form the word "Kusanagi" (highlighted below). It's probably just a coincidence一as Fujino-san admitted as well一but it's still quite an astonishing coincidence if true. Just as astonishing as how the date when MC were cursed is also the night of a new moon.