#ch 622

Yeah! It’s devastating!

Koala starts off speaking extremely politely, with polite forms and heavy use of kudasai (‘please’ but like, rather more polite) when asking the Sun Pirates not to kill her.

It immediately reminded me of something I brought up awhile ago, which is the level of politeness everyone shows the Celestial Dragons, even- especially- when the Celestial Dragons are committing atrocities against them. Koala’s speech when she first appears is very reminiscent of that speech pattern but taken up to eleven- she has that level of politeness in the face of cruelty pretty much hardwired into her.

After she’s travelled with them for awhile, though, her speech patterns appear to even out into something a lot more normal- by the time she leaves she’s talking much more causally and sounds like an actual normal person.

This? Regrettably the first half of it is obscured by the speech bubbles, unless there’s a better shot in a different panel elsewhere. It’s definitely something ‘justice’, but all I can see of the first word is that it ends with a ず/zu. I actually looked up this scene in the anime, but that didnt show me the whole word either, just that it ends in かず/kazu.