hakurei reimu, remilia scarlet, flandre scarlet, izayoi sakuya, patchouli knowledge, and 1 more (touhou) drawn by karaagetarou

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    例大祭新刊サンプル

    5/11に開催される第11回博麗神社例大祭にサークル参加します。
    レミリアが辛いカレーを食べる紅魔館ドタバタギャグ漫画です。
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    A-08a『からあげ屋さん』でお待ちしています！

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    Moonspeaker
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    Dang it, the stuff that gets posted when I'm asleep...

    r0d3n7z said:

    check translation: Can someone confirm 畜生（ちくしょう） → ちくせう ? I've not seen this one before. Is this one of those おぜうさま/m'rady jokes?

    That's what I thought when I read it. I rather think, if it's truly such a very special Touhou in-joke, that other, corroborating examples will be extremely scarce. (That is, I suspect Kara'agetarou-san's the first to use it.)

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    BrassBird
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    r0d3n7z said:

    check translation: Can someone confirm 畜生（ちくしょう） → ちくせう ? I've not seen this one before. Is this one of those おぜうさま/m'rady jokes?

    Basically this joke uses Japanese historical kana orthography. In this orthography, "YO(YOU)" sound shoud be written as "EU".
    Historical: ちくせう (chikusEU) = Current: ちくしょう (chikusYO)
    Historical: おぜうさま (ozEUsama) = Current: おじょうさま (ozYOsama)

    Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography

    Wikipedia (Japanese)
    http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%B4%E5%8F%B2%E7%9A%84%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D%E9%81%A3
    http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%97%E9%9F%B3%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D%E9%81%A3

    (To be exact, おじょうさま should be written as おぢゃうさま, but touhou fans prefer おぜうさま which looks and sounds more stylish.)

    Updated by BrassBird

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    Moonspeaker
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    Indeed, that's the same reason the author sometimes signs as "Kara'agetarau".

    I was viewing from the perspective that the whole "Ozeusama" pronunciation had been adopted as an in-joke by Touhou fans, and thus a related joke with "chikuseu", which may or may not have ever been used in real life, would likely have very limited usage in anything we could currently find—possibly only in this story.

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