I'm so fed up with this shit. Gaming is almost gone.
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You tell them that wordplay and puns aren't necessary in every single thing ever, in KANJI, and I might go back.
But those two things make everything a fucking nightmare to consume outside academic settings.
Reading manga translations and the 40 hoops they jump through to explain or make a single joke work makes it sound extremely exciting to understand.
But there is so much history, local memery, geography, folklore and more baked into their daily wordplay that it requires not just learning a language but the entire country for some works.