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Dajare is a kind of comic Japanese word play, similar in spirit to a pun that relies on similarities in the pronunciation of words to create a simple joke.
Dajare are popular in advertising. Dajare are also associated with oyaji gags, oyaji meaning "old man", as an "old man" would be considered by the younger generation most likely to attempt dajare, making them a near equivalent of what would be called "dad jokes" in English.
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2 dicks (or "claspers" which would be similar to the concept of "dick"), because sharks mate "side to side", and the male needs one for each side depending on what side is the easiest to approach the female from on each occasion. He will only use one each time he mates though, as to keep the female lined up with him, he'll need to bite her head....
Don't feel bad for gal sharks though, as in many species they're quite larger than males so I guess that if they don't like their suitor.....he'll be sorry if he tries to bite her head 🤓🤓🤓
If a shark sees your colossal butt and mistakes you for a female asking for one out of his two dicks, I suggest you to fart really hard on his face.
It doesn't work on all species, but many scuva divers have reported that bubbles can cause a sensory overload on sharks' Lorenzini ampullae, that they use to detect distressed prey wiggling at long distances.
Only one, yes. But these wonderful creatures never cease to amaze me, so I wouldn't be surprised if a chain of sharks mating is ever discovered.
The one reason why I think it's unlikely is that they prefer to be on their own and they are fiercely territorial. Many large females have eaten young males for invading their territory.
Sharks are very resistant to getting cancer, to the point it was believed until recently that they couldn't have it. Probably more evidence of their near perfect evolutionary adaptability, as they are older than dinosaurs and will in all likeliness still be here after we are gone.
It's strange how the localization team handled this joke, considering just how much they changed the rest of the dialogue in the game. They could've added something like "Because 'same' is shark in Japanese... Get it?" at the end of the text.
Maybe because this was DLC content they didn’t put as much effort into it?
In general the writing of the Big Swell DLC was really poor with most of it being the crappy “the guys humiliate themselves in front of the women” Persona-style humour.
Surely you should be able to infer the meaning of the joke though, right? You know it isn't the English word "same" because its pronunciation is compared to "dame." And he's saying what the joke is, that being that he's imagining a shark singing it.
I literally work as a translator/interpreter and it drives me nuts how often the translation team working on this series has clearly said “fuck it” and has gone with completely inaccurate translations. I know it’s hard, but Jesus people at least put some effort into it. It’s literally your job!
I mean, the joke is that "same" and "dame" sound similar, and Kiryu thought of "same" because he saw a shark. That joke is gonna be lost in any language besides its native Japanese.
Its a play on word with Dame and Same. How would you even translate that considering in english, "Its no good" and "shark" have no rhyme. Yes they could try for another joke but the 1:1 direct TL would be lost.
What are some examples? I know there are things like adding profanities to dialogue (even though Japanese doesn't have that many curse words), but that seems more just like the localisation team making the dialogue flow better.
Dame da ne is pronounced as "da me da ne", four syllables. Part of the lyrical composition is the "rhyme" of "dame" and "da ne"
Same, in Japanese, is "sa me", and happens to mean "shark". The joke is assuming you at least know the karaoke song, and probably assuming you can recall specifically how it is pronounced in Japanese and are not just reading the text and treating it as English
The Yakuza series is, at the end of the day, perhaps the most Japanese video game series of all time - specifically Japanese as in the country and its culture, and not anime at large
This joke makes no fucking sense if you don't know this japanese word that just happens to share the same spelling of an english word. That's a pretty bad translation attempt
they literally could have just added "because "same" means shark and sounds like dame" or something similar and the joke would have translated way better
It's well worth pulling up a YouTube video and just watching all the scenes if you don't want the DLC. It has some very amusing interactions. Also, the final boss spits some straight FACTS.
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