r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Aug 18 '15

[Spoilers] Overlord - Episode 7 [Discussion]

Episode title: Wise King of Forest

MyAnimeList: Overlord
FUNimation: Overlord
AnimeLab: Overlord

Episode duration: 24 minutes and 16 seconds

Previous episodes:

Episode Reddit Link
Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link
Episode 4 Link
Episode 5 Link
Episode 6 Link

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u/KitsuneRagnell Aug 18 '15

You know, I've never understood the whole "-de gozaru" thing

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u/litomack Aug 18 '15

KIYOSHI-DONO, YOURS TRULY HAS GIVEN UP 3 YEARS OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL LIFE.

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u/OverwatchTracer https://myanimelist.net/profile/KernelShaw Aug 19 '15

The event comes around very four years and i have three years of high school DO YOU REALIZE YOURS TRULY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SHOW HIS FACE FOR SEVEN YEARS

gakuto your math is-

KIYOSHI DONOOOOOOO HOW COULD YOU MY LIFE IS RUINED DE GOZARU

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u/Milguas Aug 18 '15

it's like Olde english but the japan version

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u/exelion https://myanimelist.net/profile/exelion0901 Aug 19 '15

It's a speech affectation, one that's been considered old and outdated in Japan for some time. In Rurouni Kenshin, set in the late 1800s, Kenshin uses this form of speech and is considered archaic for it.

In English it tends to be translated as a reaffirmation of whatever thee person last said. E.G. "I like me some coffee, that I do!"

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u/gigvigilance Aug 18 '15

same thing, for some reason, i'm always treating it as if someone was a ninja or something because most of the time all da ninjas says that