Kanata activated Miko's gamer mode with Kanji

she leans forward and does that look of pure concentration and determination.

That was so funny.

and she definitely had her mouth open trying to say whats written HAHAHAHAHA

and gets it wrong

It's to the point where I'm starting to think that Mikochi's avatar expressions changes based on her real expressions instead of a toggle.

@@venerablesimp nah, mikochi is a real anime girl

I wonder if she’s ever reached for her streamdeck irl to change her face before realizing she isn’t streaming

​@@khov Watame is great, so is Chloe and Fubuki but honestly I think Miko is in a league of her own and it isn't close. She's spent years perfecting combinations of her models expressions and her irl expressions along with camera angles to get different subtle emotions to show. For example she uses an angry face to show anger but depending on the shape of her mouth and camera angle she will also use it to show seriousness or confusion. If she gets scared she can use the crying face but when she wants to show she got scared by a prank she'll use a surprised face and quickly switch to crying and then angry when chat laughs at her. It's the details and how fast she does them that makes her feel so lifelike.

@@Shivalry1018 Yeah, watching Miko you almost forget that's not her real face.

Her mom will tell her again that it’s embarrassing 😂

Don't get too close, you'll go achu achu too

Personally I see 弄ぶ way more than 弄る because usually that's just written in kana.

Ooohhh, a rare useful information in a YT comment section! TSKR!

I'm pretty surprised that もてあそぶ is considered a more obscure reading since I see it a lot in light novels and shit.

And also her *e l i t o n o i s e s*

Miko is the only reason why I discovered Hololive. Now I'm basically watching every member of Hololive.

She might be the GOAT.

Shes probably the main reason I got interested pretty sure it was Miko and Korone that really dragged me in I actually knew about Kizuna AI but never understood about Vtubers till way later when I started watching Hololive during the pandemic

And she was right at every part lmao 🤣

that means she constantly rubs her two braincells together. Because she's always cute.

I know you're joking, but I think I remember reading somewhere that even many actual native Japanese speakers that can't read *all* of the kanji. And then there are even kanji that are older and aren't really used anymore that would be confusing, too. Personally, to compare it to English, it's like how some people have a larger vocabulary than others.

@@Pseudowolf Well, I hope my friend is joking too. Yeah, that's true, I think a japanese people/student in youtube(I forgot) said the most difficult subject in school or for them is kanji.

@@Pseudowolf There are more than 50,000 kanji and an adult only needs to know a few thousand to read newspapers.

@@Pseudowolf It's not about vocabulary. It's pure *visual memory and effort.* The Kanji or the Hanzi's like an advanced form of hieroglyphs than the alphabets we're taught. In other popular writing systems you do not have to visualize anything to use high level vocabulary so it's really not comparable. Also it's a good thing that the Japanese students are forsaking the Kanji/Hanzi. Because they were first created to save space and takes too much time and effort to master so it's completely useless in modern times. Basically in such societies people with ADHD are fucked. Which makes up roughly 13% of the student population. So you can say that China, Taiwan and Japan operates at about 87% efficiency.

Some people also believe Anya Melfissa is not really Indonesian.

Not really, it just time consuming. The first one "弄ぶ" give you the context of the kun reading (moteaso.BU) instead of the typical one (iji.RU), the later being the one that Mikochi confuses with. The other three expresion "笑止千万", "臥薪嘗胆" and "罵詈雑言" are yojijukugo; lexeme of four characters that are akin to adages or proverbs. Some have a more common use that others because they are idiomatic phrases, so you need a certain background to understand them.

@@TehAsdfg Hoo I see. I often heard cool-sounding 4 letter kanji, I didn't know they are called yojijukugo. And that they are not common enough for even native JP to understand or even read. TIL I guess. Thanks.

@@venerablesimp Ya the yojiukugo is very similar to their cn counterparts, so I wouldn't be surprised in seeing a bunch of proverbs that's commonly used as well. It's probably why the proverbs basically only use the cn-based (I think it's like on'yomi?) readings of the kanji (笑 = shou instead of the common wara). With Japanese, the whole like "multiple different ways to pronounce the same word" always trips me up too.

To be fair Miko did read the "hardest" kanji of them all corectly; 詈 ri All other are jouyou (taught in school) or jinmeiyou (used in names) If you don't know this kanji you would probably guess that it is pronounced gen, gon, kon or ken.

At some point, being that much more time consuming just makes it hard, if for no other reason than you start forgetting things you've already learned by the time you've learned the last few items. Japanese has so many edge cases and exceptions wth Kanji that you are 100% going to forget a bunch.

No kana and no context...

TL note: 計画 means plan

Miko is an Elite member. She is still learning english and japanese ^~