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also, about them being called “elegant”, do you think there’s a reason they use that term as a loan word here? elegant seems like an odd way to describe them

i’m so sorry if this is so long,,, i’m a big Neo 3 fan and will consume every little crumb lol

Splatville's Splatfest Food Guide. Bancala Walker pages 82-83.

Translated and typeset by me.

I think these pages are cute. Most of the inkling language script on this page is gibberish, but there's a few things that are translatable:

"OISHIIYOO" : It's delicious!

"CHOTTO MATTE TANEEE": Just a moment please

"IRASSHAAI" Welcome to the store! all of these are written with drawn out vowels like you'd hear a streetfood vendor call out.

This cart is selling "Ice kacang", a malaysian shave ice dessert.

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the image quality has been obliterated here... here's an imgur mirror for the fullsize image.

We went to the Grand Festival! Bancala Walker pages 78-81.

Translated and typeset by me. Big thanks to @SalmonidJester for (painstakingly) cleaning the pages.

been meaning to translate this for a while now. this is some rare characterization for new Agent 3, as in-universe, these pages are written by them!

Currently LIVE with @ardnin and CosmicCloud! In honor of Splatoon's 11th anniversary, we're gonna be playing Splatoon 1 and talking lore. Come on down!

...did you play side order? inkipedia has the answers you seek.

as far as we're concerned, yeah. At the very least, they are intended to be gender non-conforming even in japanese. a correction on the band members: it's not that they're referred to gender neutrally, its that they're not referred to with any terms that clearly indicate a gender, something that is easy to do in Japanese, but very hard to do in English. in Japanese, third person pronouns(3PP) are not used anywhere nearly as much as in english, and can usually be avoided all together. This does not mean these characters are canonically non-binary, just that it's unconfirmed what they are. I have this disclaimer on all the band lore translations. going back to Acht, this ask I answered should answer this question...mostly. There is one addendum id like to make: Acht is only considered a bokukko in the JP fandom because of information from 2018: haikara walker calling them 彼女, she, and a dev interview referring to them as an 女の子, a girl. in side order and onwards, the japanese version has avoided referring to acht with gendered terms....aside from being a takozones, which is traditionally an all-female class of elite octolings, but acht's whole story is that their rejection of that life forced onto them... now mind you, 3PPs arent super common in JP. but in ordertune, a 3PP pops up again to refer to acht. and it's not 彼女 kanojo, she. it's 氏 shi.

what is 氏? i more often see this word as a name suffix (like -san but more formal and mainly just used in writing rather than speech). 氏, nowadays, is gender neutral. its usage here stands out to me because 彼女 would fit in that part of the sentence perfectly. and they didn't use it. (you can read the translation of ordertune here)

if you wanted a fully translated version of bancala walker, like the haikara walker translation....it does not exist and probably won't for another few years or so. MK_Squid, the person behind the haikara walker TL, is currently working on an Art of Splatoon 3 translation/typeset.

it's finally here, the thing i've been working on all year....

The Ultimate Splatoon Lore Iceberg.

clocking in at 1 hour and 49 minutes, it's my longest video yet. feature length splatoon lore babyyyyyy