#5-2

Another bright representative of Japanese culture in Gyakuten Saiban is the 5-2 case.

As we remember, in the English version, the place where Odoroki and Minuki are heading was built by Japanese migrants and is called "Nine-Tailed Vale" (a quite suitable and logical explanation). So - naturally, in the Japanese version everything is a little different. Let's see:

同日午後1時30分

九尾村・妖怪横町

Dōjitsu gogo 1-ji 30-bu

Kyūbi-mura yōkai yokochō

1:30 pm on the same day

Kyuubi Village, Yokai Yokochou

九尾村 (Kyūbi-mura) = Nine-Tailed Village

九 (kyuu) - nine

尾 (bi) - tail

村 (mura) - village

横町 (yokochou) - bystreet, side street, back street, alley, lane

This is not a vale (although it sounds nice), this is a village. A village with its own marketing ploy

ここは九尾村(きゅうびむら)。

妖怪ブームで話題の村です。

koko wa Kyūbi-mura (ki ~yuubimura). Yōkai būmu de wadai no muradesu.

This is Kyuubi Village. This village is the talk of the town due to the yokai boom.

妖怪････そういえば････ それっぽいのがあるね。

yōkai sō ieba sore ppoi no ga aru ne.

Yokai... Now that I think of it... There's something that looks like it.

で、この村に何の用事なんだい?

de, kono mura ni nani no yōjina n dai?

So, what business do you have in this village?

今日は村おこしのパーティーがこの村のお屋敷であるんですが････

kyō wa mura-okoshi no pātī ga kono mura no o yashikidearu ndesuga ko hanjō

Today, there's a village revitalization party at the mansion in this village...

Of course, Odoroki wasn't surprised that everything here was literally teeming with youkai themes. He was familiar with this culture.

And the celebration they were invited to here was the restoration and revitalization of an entire village.

妖怪ブーム。そういえば、 テレビで見た覚えがあるな。

yōkai būmu. Sō ieba, terebi de mita oboe ga aru na.

Yokai boom. Come to think of it, I remember seeing it on TV.

九尾村は、 妖怪で村おこしってわけか。

Kyūbi-mura wa, yōkai de mura-okoshi tte wake ka.

So Kyuubi Village is revitalizing itself with yokai.

The village simply uses the yokai as a tourist product to attract visitors. And there are no migrants involved.

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妖怪ブームに便乗して、パパとオドロキさんでコンビを結成!

yōkai būmu ni binjō shite, papa to odoroki-san de konbi o kessei!

Taking advantage of the yokai boom, Papa and Odoroki-san form a duo!

赤鬼青鬼コンビってのは どうでしょう?

aka oni ao oni konbi tte no wa dōdeshou?

What do you think of the Red Oni and Blue Oni combo?

パパがボケで、おどろきさんがツッコミです!

papa ga boke de, odoroki-san ga tsukkomi desu!

Dad is the Wise guy, Odoroki is the Straight man!

Here Minuki mentions two scenarios and tropes that are popular in Japan.

1. "Red Oni and Blue Oni" is based on the fairy tale: The Tale of Kind Ao Oni-kun (Blue Oni)

2. "Duo of Boke and Tsukkomi" from comedy genre Manzai

The Tale of Kind Ao Oni-kun (Blue Oni)

(Those who played Genshin Impact may know this story from the Itto Legends quest)

Red Oni wanted to become friends with the humans and live together with them in the village.

Blue Oni want to help his friend and went to the village and started to cause trouble.

After "defeating" evil Blue Oni, Red Oni became known as a kind demon who saved the village, and the villagers befriended him.

Ao Oni-kun (“Blue Oni” in Japanese) is considered a model of kind friendship for helping his friend. 

Besides the fairy tale, there are also character behavior patterns based on the red and blue oni.

The Red Oni is associated with passion, wildness, and defiance. A Red Oni character is often more brawny than brainy, extroverted, enthusiastic, determined, and filled with a zest for life.

The Blue Oni is associated with the opposite — serenity, control, and observance of authority — and tending to be more intellectual, proud, traditional, introverted, cultured, and good-natured. Blue Oni personalities are often more noble and/or respected by others, but also likely to puzzle or confound their peers because they are difficult to read and have a mysterious quality to them.

This is literally the plot of the entire fourth part of Gyakuten Saiban: the blue oni makes the red oni a hero in the faces of the townspeople, guiding him from the shadows. Naruhodo turned out to be that "necessary evil" that exposed the flaws of the judicial system that lawyers were thinking about, and Odoroki proved by his example that even the most complicated case can be resolved if you work honestly and believe in the truth until the end.

Second trope: Manzai

This is the Japanese variation on the ever-popular Straight Man and Wise Guy duo.

The tsukkomi is the Straight Man of the pair, roughly, while the boke is more or less the Wise Guy. The act usually involves the duo having a conversation on some subject, with the tsukkomi trying to correct the boke's misconceptionsnote and sometimes trying to have his partner act out a scene with him in order to help make his point.

The boke, meanwhile, sets up the gags by getting everything completely wrong, either because he's a moron or because he's being a smartass to the tsukkomi.

It suits them well, doesn't it?

Naruhodō does not try to impose his point of view on Odoroki, allowing him to find out the details and decide what is true. He constantly makes fun of him, about his status, while it seems that he never behaves seriously. At the same time, Naruhodō is very smart and wise, he wisely manages his knowledge and opportunities.

THINK A FUCKING GAIN

I now hate the ferryman :3