she's a tokyo u graduate, how could she struggle, right?

Listener is such a scumbag that he purposedly put in weird kanjis so she couldn't read it!

The kanji is too easy,the tokyo u grad couldn't read it

FeelsBadMan it's our fault like always

@@ignis488 Korone said an overseas fan made it, so ironically they're more likely to have words as Kanji even if it's extremely rare for a native to have them in kanji.

"Maybe I'm not alone."

I wonder if she can read Kogane’s name from the idol master gacha cause Haachama couldn’t XDDDD

Tokyo U graduate btw

i wonder how she looks up the kanji without knowing the pronunciation

I mean some of those kanji were so complex they practically became a square ⬛

Sucks to suck Welcome to the suck Embrace the suck Words I literally live by.

@@SwolTako just remove the first line and you will be set for life

It's been in my lexicon. It's funny to see it here.

Ew.

"sucks to suck" was a phrase I used so much when I was big into csgo in like 2015-17

lmaoo thought the same thing

This (gender/race/sexuality here) speaks the truth

And thank you for the kind words! I feel like it can get kinda cluttered and confusing when there's both text translations and spoken translations on screen, so I'm glad you thought it worked!

@@JShayTranslations Maybe next time, you could put the translation text on the character’s text box.

@@grant6048 Personally I feel like it's better without doing so for those who might want to read it

@@librac5 kk

Unofficial sequel to "My Sister can Read Kanji"

it's like an RPG made out of my worst nightmares

kuso games are kind of a subculture the way that mario hacks are.

there's like 1000s of these

Is it not from like an RPG maker or something?

@@acapitala4936 it looks like it is made with RPG Maker, but idk which version.

@@milofranklin5386 It looks like RPG maker MV to me.

Modern problem require modern solutions

This is an endurance clip

Ikr 😂😂

Listener-san falls asleep three times during a Korone stream? Typical...

"Alright, sleep for one second."

d e t h

Lord of The Rings reference, is it?😂

dagg-kon

I see this as an absolute win!

A small price to pay

There's no hesitation. It is a good deal.

At 156m, she's probably got enough room for all of us

@@guardianofthesky7thapostle377 Me: "You know, I'm something of a scum myself"

Is that how we got "smell ya later" in Pokémon?

*Cute Anime Girl Sounds* Hai hai hai, *cute anime laugh* Listener-san

An endurance clip

Agreed. While he's a bumbling pervert, he has defeated several powerful bad guys, saved the town, even got really based and bombed a noble manor.

@@RoyalFusilier Darkness would have a crush on Listener-kun. Sadistic, psychopathic, lazy and treats you like shit? I can already see the hearts in her eyes.

Do it!

100% do it and post the link here

#NotallListenarsan

Yeah, some people when they play indie games and the game dev put too much kanji, the game dev is often seen as "pretentious", so I don't think it's a good thing to put too much kanji, even in books and writing.

Yup. Just like many English speakers when reading Shakespeare or other archaic language. Many people only know the words (or kanji) that they have heard before.

@@kiyopawn could it be deliberately inserted to go with the medieval theme? e.g like putting in olde englishe

@@Okatogurui i think its deliberately done to show how pretentious and trashy the hero is.

Hard kanji in manga and novels usually being covered by Furigana above it, still sometimes the author just put whatever kanji they want and made different reading just because it looks cool, happens pretty often with special attack name.

What does tskr mean?

@@aapzehrsteurer9000 Tskr is short for "tasukaru", which is slang for "Blessed!" or "incredibly appreciated!"

you don't have to settle. go to rpg atsumaru.

It's not so much the fact that there's three sets of characters, it's that this game for some reason uses some obscure ones that you don't see often (or at all nowadays). Most Japanese only know and need around half the kanji that are approved for general use give or take, and with modern word processing basically doing the thinking for you it's even less now than 25 years ago. Could be this game was simply made by someone who reads a lot more than Korone and so knows more characters from heart.

@@Krawurxus I didn't consider that, but the way JShay translated it, the words he chose were definitely formal, obscure and/or college-level English words, so I dig it. Looked like the scumbag hero was giving himself fancy-pants airs.

Two of those alphabets are basically like upper/lower case so that's not really an issue, but kanji can indeed be a beast.

@@Krawurxus The reason this game chose so many difficult kanji was to satirize other JRPGs that do the same thing unironically.

@@ErebosGR In any event, it was the cause of some very pleasant hilarity. I actually didn't pick up on her covertly looking up the difficult ones until JShay so brutally pointed it out to absolutely everyone 😂

He also keeps one Lvl. 100 guard in the castle to beat down the hero, take his smartphone before cheats can be enabled, and lock him in the dungeon. Story ends with the Hero whining about his imprisonment, receiving beatings for his sass, and ironically hearing the guard occasionally say, "Hehe, sucks to suck." Guard might even start dating Hero's girlfriend, too. At least he'll take the time to thank her for her cooking.

And he only gets to have a first nap!

How is that in even the most remote way ironic?

@@-Devy- I assume because its a silly low budget game using complex high tier Kanji.

I'm pretty sure that's the point though. The game is so 'poorly written' that even the Japanese have trouble understanding WTF is going on. Big kusoge vibe.

@@Archedgar japanese is just a dumb language

@@Archedgar not poorly written is because there is a few words that almost nobody use like sublime , so normaly people will not know it kanji

Honestly, you’re not far off.

Hey, at least we conquered the world

I love that out of all the fucked up shit Listener does it is having a girlfriend that really pisses her off

He was Chaotic evil player, I take it?

@@dragonknightleader1 he seems chaotic evil irl too

It's probably better to think of most kanji as more like words themselves than just another alphabet sometimes. Like even English speakers will run into complicated words they don't know the meaning of. Though it's a little worse in Japanese since you can't tell how a kanji is pronounced either(in games, some words will have the pronunciation above or below it in hiragana)

Also you say this like English is any better

@@1000drman I mean, in english you can at least go and ask someone "what does xyz mean?", since you can read it. You may not prounounce it correctly, but it should more often than not be enough for the other person to understand. You can read, and at least approximately pronounce a word that you don't know. This is completely different in Japanese. If you don't know a kanji, you can't go and ask someone "what does xyz mean?", since you have no idea how it's even pronounced. You'd have to write the kanji you don't know to ask somebody about it. Though as Asra said, sometimes you have furigana that help with pronounciation. But not always.

@@Asrashas You can't really say that too easily if you aren't native to English and talk with a language like japanese natively where they don't have xyz

@@1000drman Well yeah. But I'm not talking about English from a non-proficient perspective. I'm talking about English from a proficient perspective, versus Japanese from a proficient perspective. If confronted with a word they don't know in their respective language, the English person can at least take a guess to the pronunciation, and be usually understandable, I think. While the Japanese person can ... simply not. Even a person proficient in both languages will have the same problem. He can guess pronunciations of unknown words in English, but not of unknown kanji. Saying that English is more difficult for non-native speakers than it is for native ones is .. well, obvious. That is true for every language, including japanese. That's not an argument in any direction, imo. Also I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "where they don't have xyz". xyz in my text was just meant as a placeholder for an unknown word in the respective language. So an unknown English word for the English person, and an unknown Japanese word for the Japanese person.

最低~

I was thinking -Shield- Cautious Hero.

@@ErebosGR Shield hero did nothing wrong

@@chadthundercock5641 Sorry, not Shield Hero, I meant Cautious Hero.

Kazuma and the gang would have to follow behind isekai jerks like this and clean up their mess, which is implied to have happened already.

Sure, Kazuma is an opportunistic slacker, but he's nowhere near the level of this game's jerkass protagonist.