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Ohhhh. Okay. I saw someone mention a “mini-series” and I thought there was a live-action adaptation on GO or something. SPAM AWAY

SOON

THERE WILL BE A LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION SOON

Isn’t that only on video games?

Anyway, on Mako’s conversation with Stacker, it’s probably due to her upbringing with Stacker, and not knowing that Raleigh understood Japanese, that she told him “He’s not what I expected.” And, yeah, that did strike me as kinda rude, but I also interpreted it as a curious, “Huh, what happened to the cocky pilot from 5 years Part curiosity, part confusion. It’s also a hint that, despite Mako’s reserved nature, she does have a headstrong side. like when she swaggers into the combat ring

Last two things, the Mark-1 Jaegers, the ones shown destroyed in the beginning, lacked an escape pod, according to other source materials. Part of the ‘hastily designed for combat,’ that Pentecost told Raleigh after he revealed he was dying from Cancer near the end. Mako’s last line to Pentecost being, “I love you, Sensei,” was also something I knew, from, in your words, my geeky knowledge. I barely caught the aishiteimas, but from the context I understood. Leaving it unsubbed made it personal

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Yeeeeah… I’m not entirely happy with that layout, but I’m shite at that stuff as it is. xD Those things can be a little tough to find. (Though a fun note, if I ever have trouble finding someone’s I just add /ask to the url and bam, pops right up)

There isn’t really much stress? It’s pronounced pretty evenly across the whole name. And if I had to say there was stress there would be more on the Ma than ko, but on the consonant. Raleigh (or specifically Hunnam) was putting a lot of emphasis on the vowel. Again, it’s kind of a personal opinion thing, it was just something that just really stood out to me during the final fight and only on my second viewing. 

The subtitles I remember (and mayhaps there is some strange issue here where mine were different than the ones in the US - assuming you’re there) and also what I remember hearing was more like ‘I imagined him differently’ (I think it was a little longer, but I do recall the specific use of ‘differently’), with Raleigh’s response (supposedly - see previous note) being ‘Different or worse?’. Which, overall came across to me as ruder. Even with the curiosity and confusion, I would think she’d understand his brother’s death 5 years before would have hit him hard, even if she didn’t know the full details about him still being connected. She’s got her own bundle of issues stemming from her parents’ deaths and they have obviously shaped who she has become. You’d think she’d understand something like that in him.

As for the hint to her character, yeah, I can understand that and totally accept it. Still, idk, it just kinda bothered me. I feel like it could have been shown another way (though the play out of the rest of the scene with Raleigh’s accepting it calmly and even amicably followed by his nod of respect would have had to happen another way — which I actually might have liked because yeah, I’ll point back to my issue with Raleigh’s apparent fluency of Japanese.) 

Yeah, I remember hearing that somewhere about the Mark-1s, though I wasn’t sure if it was just a fan developed idea that increased the pain of Cherno Alpha or if it was legit. But were those all Mark-1s that they showed in that scene? The one where the narration turns darker about how the kaiji were adapting and they were starting to lose? Given that only those 4 jaegers were left obviously all the others from each gen had been demolished at some point or another. I’m just running off of what I remember seeing, and that was mostly just a bunch of destroyed jaegers on land… They were kinda bulkier models like Cherno I suppose… /shrug/

Got some responses for ya. Yeah, the female Kaidanovsky does have braided hair on both sides.

It’s possible that the escape pods have both floaters and parachutes, but the likelihood of Jaegers dying on water is higher than on land, considering their main objective is to intercept and push back Kaiju away from the coast. Kaiju making it to the land is already a partial mission failure, I think.

The fact that the “Anteverse” receives a signal is somewhat foreshadowed with the ability to drift with a Kaiju and access their hivemind from Earth. I realize that drifting and wireless signals are probably two, different things, but eh, I take what I can get.

I’m curious now, how do you pronounce Mako?

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So this is my first time dealing with a submission! Thanks for your commentary and question. ^^ Also, I’m posting this using my phone so I have no idea how this is gonna look…

1. Hell yeah, glad I caught that. *w* A note: I was curious on that one because a lot of fan art just shows her with short hair and I wasn’t completely sure. My need for more stills and gifs and just everything Kaidanovsky is great.

2. You say that and I just wanna smack my head and tell myself ‘duh!’ Good point there. Though considering that no less than three fights we actually saw (Australia with … fuck the name slips my mind, the one that broke the wall, Tokyo with Onibaba, Hong Kong with Otachi) ended up on land, I would still hope there was a failsafe. Partial mission failure or no, better the pilots eject and can be used again than loose the Jaeger and them imo. It’s hard to see exactly what sort of damage the destroyed Jaegers went through in that montage of news reports at the beginning (once they started losing), but I did notice they were all on land. It makes me wonder if they didn’t eject because they didn’t want to, couldn’t because of structural damage, or couldn’t because that might have killed them anyways.

3. I don’t know about that. The story itself mentions the hivemind, however when Newt and Herman drifted with the kaiju they weren’t necessarily actively accessing the hivemind. The key thing about drifting (apart from it being necessary to control the massive robots) is the fact that it is sharing memories. What seems more likely to me, given that the baby kaiju/kaiju fetus and the portion of the brain Newt had in the lab were actively dead (okay the brain I think might have technically been alive if I’m remembering it correctly so that might be a bit different but the baby kaiju was certainly dead) is that Newt and Herman simply accessed the brain’s latent memories of the “Anterverse”/hivemind. So an active hivemind link is debatable. But that doesn’t address the fact of the hivemind working to send back the info needed to adapt the kaiju anyways so Imma just stop here on that. |D

4. So. Mako. Number one, I am not, in any way, Japanese. That said, I did study it for 3 years in university and I think more importantly I do live in Japan and have a for almost a year. I have a full time job working around native speakers (of a range of ages) and though I don’t always understand what they’re saying, I can hear how they pronounce things. But two, I’m going to note that it may have just sounded funny to me, I didn’t ask my friends, even though I asked them about what they thought of the Japanese used in the movie (I think all three have been here for at least 2 years now and I know two of them speak pretty good Japanese themselves). Three, I’m kinda sucky at linguistics and explanations of pronunciation and sound (I can’t transcribe that shit) so I hope this makes sense.

With that out of the way I’ll try my best. I think most people know that Japanese is a fairly, mm… syllabic language. There are a distinct number of syllables with very specific pronunciations (accents and regionalisms aside) all pretty much stemming from the five vowels – a, i, u, e, o. Now you likely pronounced that the way English speakers tend to despite it being in a different order (the usual being a, e, i, o, u). Well, there’s the main difference.

a, i, u, e, o are said more or less like ‘ah’, ‘e’, ‘oo’, ‘eh’, ‘oh’. All other syllables build off of this sound pattern, simply by adding consonants. The vowel sound will remain the same, the beginning will just change (such as ka, ga, ra, ha, ba, pa, za, na, and ma).

So putting that together Mako’s name is (more or less) something like ‘Mah’ + ‘koh’. To me it sounded like Raleigh was putting a strange twang on the ‘a’ in her name that I couldn’t describe, but likely could point out to you in a specific example.

Note 1: Like I said, Tendo also does it a bit, mostly over the coms in the last bit with the escape pods, but his last few pronunciations sound correct. No one else really says her name as much in such short amounts of time that it’s otherwise apparent.

Note 2: This is deviating a little, but still on the subject of language and I made comment in the tags of a reblog. The scene where Raleigh lands at Shatterdome and Mako greats him and Pentecost is a bit strange to me. Yes, it’s entertaining and was handled really well all things considered but a few things pop into my mind. One, Mako is being exceptionally rude here, talking about Raleigh like that, right in front of him in a foreign language. I would think Pentecost raised her better than that and overall it’s kind of a dick move that isn’t entirely in her character. Two, unless Raleigh had been studying Japanese all this time or had studied it for some reason had a really fucking good memory for languages, I do not see how he would have been able to pick up on what she was saying enough to respond as he had. It was in no way the most complex Japanese you’ve ever heard, nor the fastest, but it also wasn’t exactly simple. Three, they either put in a wrong subtitling for his response or used a poor take, because he doesn’t even really say a complete sentence, or even more than one word, which is ‘different’. Maybe. My friends even said they had to look at the subtitles to 'see what the hell he was saying’.

Fun fact, I saw the movie in English with Japanese subtitles, but the English subtitles were still there.

Except Mako’s last line to Pentecost at the end of the movie. Question for everyone, was that subtitled or just given as it was an you figured the meaning from her tone of voice and the situation (and maybe your own geeky knowledge)? Spoiler, she says ‘Sensei, aishiteimas’ which is ‘Sensei (or teacher, or respected person or whatever you with to translate that as), I love you.’ I kinda assume it wasn’t subbed and just came across in the tone, but I’m curious.

I've caught bits of it here and there, but yeah I based it off the 'Amst I bovvered' sketch

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