1 Yeah, reverse the Japanese incantation and you get raburii de chaamingu dakedo shi wo yobu mono. "Lovely and charming but a harbinger of death" is a decent translation.

Crunchyroll's translator completely missed this... I guess paying your translators peanuts has its consequences.

2 I noticed the same thing about Sera.  As for Kyoko (major spoilers so don't read if you haven't seen the episode people) nothing is making sense here. Obviously, it wasn't a last minute substitution at the end of ep. 4, because from what she says (and we've seen), she was already the bad guy.  So what was that scene of Kyoko's murder?  Add to that, the creepy shot of all the phone booths just before the eyecatch...and is the "granny" in 305 something special, or just a random person she picked to replace her?  Why go to the effort?  Just manipulate memories and the records to indicate the room's not been used. Way more questions than answers, but I disagree about Kyoko's status - she's got a nasty combo of powers that the good guys haven't found an end to yet, and then she hints that she'll have to be killed another, oh, nine or ten times to make it stick.  Better to have her as the real boss and fight over the next seven episodes, than defeat her, and then the "real" boss shows up in the last two episodes.  Too cheesy.

3 Yeah, Sera's "modified" compliment to Ayumu towards the end of Episode 4 was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.  It's obvious she's growing to admire him...and isn't too happy about it.

4

About Kyoko and Ayumu: Kyoko is killing people in order to use their souls for power. The dog said that her victims aren't showing up in Jigoku.

But Ayumu did show up there, according to the dog, and that's why Eu was able to bring him back. Why was he different? That, plus him somehow stealing Haruna's power, suggests that even before he became a zombie there was something quite special about him.

5 Andrew, I have a suspicion that Underwater's translator had read one or more of the books, and picked up the reversed incantation from there.

6

I just had another idea.

In DBK late in the Majin Buu story arc, there's a point where Goku and Vegita fuse, creating a person who calls himself Vegetto. Goku's voice and Vegita's voice are really a lot different, so what voice to use for the fused being?

Well, they used them both. The two seiyuu delivered every line together. It's a bit eerie, but you get used to it surprisingly fast.

All the fantasy-voices for Eu we've had, with a different seiyuu every episode. And we've been told that Eu is deliberately not speaking because her words have unfathomable power. It's a case of Checkhov's gun; you know that when the time comes, she's going to say something at a critical point, and it'll be a game changer.

I wonder if, when that time comes, it'll sound like a chorus? What if all the fantasy voices come back and speak the line simultaneously?

7

This is a test. These are not real spoilers. I wonder if something changed?

Looks like each paragraph in a spoiler gets its own box now.

Like these three. I wonder if this is a side effect of using a "span" instead of a "div"?

Pixy?

8

No, it seems that the first one gets its own box, if it's part of a preceding paragraph.

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3.

9 OK, I don't understand what's going on, but it doesn't seem to be what was intended. Paging Pixy Misa.

10 More fun with quirks mode, with very different behavior between browsers. I was reading your comments in Safari and Firefox, and wondering what you were talking about.

In those browsers, the spoiler tagging ends after the first paragraph, so there's only one box, but the rest is now not hidden behind a spoiler tag at all. I had to fire up a Windows machine and use IE to see the multiple spoiler boxes.

When you create a multi-paragraph spoiler, the tags look like this: "P SPAN /P P /P P /SPAN /P", which IE is willing to take a stab at. Safari and Firefox turn it into "P SPAN /SPAN /P P /P P /P", which leaves the later paragraphs visible.

The most reliable solution would be to replace any P tags that end up inside a spoiler with a pair of BR tags, to preserve the illusion of paragraphing in a way that won't force browsers to guess what you were trying to do. Requires Pixy dev time, of course, so reverting to the old behavior might be easier.

Maybe we should go beat up the guy who originally decided that you couldn't put a DIV inside a P.

-j

11

Maybe we should go beat up the guy who originally decided that you couldn't put a DIV inside a P.

A decision that bad, I'm guessing was made by a committee.

12 Actually, after reading through the HTML 3.0 draft spec, it looks like the primary culprit is Dave Raggett. I'm sure others were involved, but he was the sole author of the document whose formal DTD specifically excluded the shiny new DIV tag from being used in a P context.

This was in the days when everyone was firmly convinced that HTML tags should be purely semantic, leaving the visual representation up to the browser. In that alternate universe, a labeled DIV is just an abstract classification.

-j