For those who were wondering, 漢気 basically means "manliness" so 漢気に溢れた would be "overflowing with manliness."
I wasn't really sold on him when all we had was his chibi and his appearance in the animated opening, but seeing his character art and hearing his voice has endeared him to me a bit more. I'm not interested at all in the old dude and I doubt that will change even after we get more info but I definitely want to know more about the butterfly guy.
Can't say I'm super fond of the girl. She may not be a loli but the fact that she doesn't speak the language very well and also seems to have a childish voice and personality is just...ehhh. Her design is cute though.
It seems Fuka's monster form could be a chipsqueek. As for Murakumo, who knows. I was leaning towards a silver wolf but they both could also just be completely new monsters.
It seems the last two possible girls are the ones in the trailer and homepage. Their color schemes are quite similar so I can only see one of them being marriageable???
nongo wrote:It seems Fuka's monster form could be a chipsqueek. As for Murakumo, who knows. I was leaning towards a silver wolf but they both could also just be completely new monsters.
It seems the last two possible girls are the ones in the trailer and homepage. Their color schemes are quite similar so I can only see one of them being marriageable???
Spoiler:
I think the one on the left is actually a bachelor!
nongo wrote:It seems Fuka's monster form could be a chipsqueek. As for Murakumo, who knows. I was leaning towards a silver wolf but they both could also just be completely new monsters.
It seems the last two possible girls are the ones in the trailer and homepage. Their color schemes are quite similar so I can only see one of them being marriageable???
Spoiler:
I think the one on the left is actually a bachelor!
Murakumo looks better with every little drip of info! The design choices for him feel very cohesive (VA included). This is based on nothing, but his name sounds like something for a yokai, which just kind of adds to the cohesion for me.
Not too much of an opinion on Fuka. I'm just getting "wild child" vibes. Whatever comes of that...who knows.
Murakumo is a 'were', isn't he? The translation is gobbledegook (humane and humorous aren't very good adjectives to describe personality) but it mentioned that he's a 'wear animal'. Werewolf? I know we've had animal-ear candidates before, but did we have an actual 'were' before, with both human and animal forms? Think Murakumo will actually be shown in both forms, if he has 'em?
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Was he officially called a 'were' creature of some kind? Looking at the design again it still does feel very Japanese to me...so I wonder what he'll end up being called. There are some yokai that have monster and human forms... (There's so many uh, sub-classes of yokai I get very lost keeping track of it all.)
That'll be interesting to see for sure. Werewolf would be a pretty different connotation than I think we've had before.
Er, well...yes, he was officially called one, and yet, no, lol. Because this is what it says:
A 'wear' animal. I assumed this meant a 'were' animal, and am guessing 'wolf', though I'm far from a judge of animal ear types. But given the quality of translation, it could mean anything? That he's worn? Like old or roughened? Lol.
Myosotis44 wrote:My Japanese isn't all that good, so I simply cleaned up the Google Translation.
Fuka (CV: Aki Toyosaki)
The were animal, “Fuka”, is unable to read or write human language yet, but it seems that she can intuitively understand the lies that others have told her.
Murakami (CV: Shunsuke Takeuchi)
The were animal, "Murakumo," who runs the inn, is a hearty and rough person, but he is an innkeeper with a humane and humorous personality.
It seems like these two are the East Asian themed bathhouse characters of the game. Their names are in hiragana like Hina's. Also, does anyone know what "漢気に溢れた" means (overflowing with something)? I couldn't find anything about it on the Internet and it was translated as "humorous."
My Japanese is rusty, but I recognize one of the kanji means energy, like energetic, I believe. So it’s probably most closely translated to jovial or jolly like rope said.
Kikki wrote:Er, well...yes, he was officially called one, and yet, no, lol. Because this is what it says:
A 'wear' animal. I assumed this meant a 'were' animal, and am guessing 'wolf', though I'm far from a judge of animal ear types. But given the quality of translation, it could mean anything? That he's worn? Like old or roughened? Lol.
Kikki wrote:Murakumo is a 'were', isn't he? The translation is gobbledegook (humane and humorous aren't very good adjectives to describe personality) but it mentioned that he's a 'wear animal'. Werewolf? I know we've had animal-ear candidates before, but did we have an actual 'were' before, with both human and animal forms? Think Murakumo will actually be shown in both forms, if he has 'em?
Mikodesu wrote:Was he officially called a 'were' creature of some kind? Looking at the design again it still does feel very Japanese to me...so I wonder what he'll end up being called. There are some yokai that have monster and human forms... (There's so many uh, sub-classes of yokai I get very lost keeping track of it all.)
That'll be interesting to see for sure. Werewolf would be a pretty different connotation than I think we've had before.
Murakumo, Hina, and Fuka are all described as being "were animals" in Japanese (ウェアアニマル) and I haven't been able to find that term used to describe any previous RF characters so I'm assuming it's a new thing unique to 5. Though design-wise they're clearly pretty similar to the monster bachelors and bachelorettes of 4.
Kikki wrote:Er, well...yes, he was officially called one, and yet, no, lol. Because this is what it says:
Whoops...that was dumb of me. Went back to the tweet and it's literal, too...not a Google Translate hiccup. The "were" bit is the katakana, "ウェアアニマル". It just so happens that "wear" and "were" are spelled the same. So he's definitely something werewolf adjacent.
The main thing I find interesting about that is how the transformation between man and beast is handled, whether it's a cyclical thing or if it can be controlled. Pretty interesting!
The reason I initially asked about it was because I don't remember it ever being a thing that came up, that the animal-eared folks we've had before were 'weres'. Were they all, and it was simply never mentioned? Or is this new, and we're actually going to see Murakumo be both a man and a wolf? (Either a type that can transform at will, or a type that is forced to change by external circumstances.) Katze is saying there doesn't seem to be any term used in previous games that would indicate the other characters were ever refered to as 'weres' so at least in terms of how he's being introduced, this is new.
I'm wondering how the whole 'were' thing is gonna play out, if it means anything at all. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe he's just an animal-eared (or 'monster' hybrid) candidate, like we've had before, and it's simply the first time they used the term 'were' to describe one of them.
Can't wait to see him in-game.
The design choices for him feel very cohesive (VA included). This is based on nothing, but his name sounds like something for a yokai, which just kind of adds to the cohesion for me. 
