Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season Episode 5 Discussion

animefan8800 said:
Holy fuck, that engrish! Adorable! Reminds me of how I miss Kiniro Mosaic. :(

Ominous ending thou...

animefan8800 said:
Holy fuck, that engrish! Adorable! Reminds me of how I miss Kiniro Mosaic. :(

Ominous ending thou...

BlackstarFallen said:
That girl skipped nine years of school!? She must be really smart. Also, the Engrish was pretty funny xD I wonder what the penguin has in mind...

cutemanabi said:
I think they screwed up there. Even if she had been in first grade, nine years would bump her into tenth grade, which is high school. If she's only a few years younger than Yuzuka and Chiya, she'd might even be post-high school. Since she seems to speak Japanese fine, it'd make sense for her to be tutored in Japanese to learn to write it before high school/college, but she appears to be going to elementary school. (Largely based on the fact she doesn't wear a school uniform and wears a randoseru backpack.) As smart as a nine year jump implies, I'm sure she could easily learn to write Japanese to post-high school level in a year. She wouldn't be able to get that advanced going to elementary school, as she'd be stuck at the current grade level lessons.

Frezlaj said:
Well, Japanese kids are taught kana and kanji (Japanese writing systems) from Elementary School; since Daiya/Dia (the blonde girl, which often implies that she has a foreign parent) ask for help to write in Japanese, that means it's something she really has trouble with. The blonde girl was probably at High School in the U.S., but when she went back to Japan (supposing that she learned how to speak Japanese before with her family, but didn't learn how to write), she had to go to elementary school, where kids learn how to read and write kana. She misspells さけ writing ちけ and also can't agree with the writing of 鮭 (fish[魚]+2earth[土]), which cloud represent "amphibians" ("fishes who evolved to live on earth") instead of "salmon" or other fishes. So, her advanced logic gets on the way of learning the basics of writing old Chinese Japanese, someone can't simply be good at everything.

cutemanabi said:

I know that, but the thing is, you wouldn't put a student back in elementary school when all they need to do is learn one subject, even if that subject is language. There'd be tutoring, special classes, maybe spend a year just learning the language before resuming normal studies, but they wouldn't stick them in elementary school. It would be disruptive to the normal students, and can also cause problems for the student needing to learn the language. (She's not going to be able to relate to the other kids, and them to her, so inevitably she'd get picked on and be isolated. It'd be a total disaster for everyone.)

Not to mention that with her being a child prodigy she'd learn kanji at a significantly faster pace than normal students. You'd have to keep moving her from grade to grade all through the school year, causing even more chaos for the entire school. And this applies to Japanese schools even more than English ones really, since kanji progression is built in by grade level. It's significantly easier to let English students get ahead on vocabulary (since it's just extra words, not basically expanding the alphabet) than it would be in Japanese learning to read/write kanji.

I'm not taking it too seriously, it just bugs me that it's so wrong. I guess it's because I was a education major at one point in time, so I know how this stuff works. (Ended up with a degree in computer science though.) Also, Daiya's an anime original character, so this isn't from the manga. Now it's not really important in the scheme of things, the show's still very enjoyable. But I do think they didn't think it through and messed up on it.