Subtitles God-Sent For Blogs

Kuro reminded me about something: Anglophone blogs have a great advantage over Japanese anime blogs[0]: subtitled screencaps! These things add a good deal of expression or sometimes a tongue-in-cheek call-out, playing off the way readers reconstruct the material[1]. How about this one, from AKB0048, which I was saving for a retrospective post:

Pretty cute, isn't it? The context for the quote is AKB0048 member lecturing her understudies on the importance of physical conditioning. But Kuro came up with the best one in years[2]:

For those unfamiliar with the setting, they are linked of "cabled" and the words are transmitted mind-to-mind. Yes, it's Mr. Porky in the background. Look at the Chiyuri's eye!

[0] Aside from subtitles, what I saw about Japanese blogs in general is rather horrifying. Some explain it with the competition from 2ch. If anyone knows any good Japanese anime blogs, please let me know. I only follow Moero Amazon, and good as she is, Aira is apparently unfamiliar with a cocept of hyperlink.

[1] See also the famous ad for Canal+ where incorrect reconstruction is the main point of the video.

[2] Of course, the creators came up with it first, but how do you capture it in the raw?! A clip on Youtube is nowhere as effective.

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