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Perfect 10 | 5 | 9.62% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 13 | 25.00% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 14 | 26.92% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 19.23% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 6 | 11.54% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 3.85% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 1.92% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 1.92% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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And superstition? Really? You think people are going to refuse to work for them because they've got "four" in their name? Like, say, Four Leaves Technology? Quote:
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He's got a bit of "family retainer" in him rather than mere employee, but that's due to the peculiar circumstances of having an aristocracy around. That doesn't affect his replaceability all that much. Quote:
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And please don't pretend that "capable" is anywhere close to adequate to describe Tatsuya. If nothing else, it doesn't have to be either invincible genius or good-for-nothing moron. There's a whole spectrum between the two. For myself... I can live with it, but it'd certainly be easier to swallow if "genius" was his day job. Instead of something he does the way I post in anime forums... Quote:
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2014-05-31, 17:56 | Link #62 | |
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Hence, they won't have a problem with the English word 'Four'. (And Japanese (and Chinese) people probably have a much higher sensitivity to superstition than secular people in the West, if only because there are quite a few occasions where we actively avoid using '4'. For example, we avoid giving money at weddings / New Year in sums that have the digit '4' in it (we try to give money in sums that contain the number '8' instead). Apparently, there are even buildings in Japan that skip the fourth level because of this. '9' is also avoided - to a lesser extent - because one pronunciation for it, "ku," is the same as that for the word 'suffering'. In contrast, '13', Friday the 13th etc, mean little to them outside of the pop culture they get from the west.) So yes, a valid argument for the world of Mahouka, whether you like it or not.) Though personally, I reckon that a more important reason that they'd have difficulty replacing this butler is the issue of trust. Given the secrecy that envelops the house, how easy can it be to find someone that they can trust with their secrets? But if Tatsuya's the super genius, why do they treat him like crap? Given that his father just stood there and let Aoki completely ignore him and diss him, it looks like it's something completely acceptable in the Yotsuba family. To me, that raises questions about what exactly it is the family values in their magicians, which I assume to be related to whatever it is that the magic education system believes is valuable (casting speed, the scale of the spell and the ability of the person to 'rewrite information' with their magic (ep. 3)). Doesn't look like super intelligence or high psion count - which Ushiyama's words suggest is a trait of both Miyuki and Tatsuya - count for much.
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2014-05-31, 18:01 | Link #63 | |
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And even if some people will refuse to work for them on that basis, I doubt they'll have real trouble finding good people. Quote:
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My point about young graduates wasn't that they could replace the man immediately... but that they were the raw material from which a new butler could be made. Or heck, now that I think of it - maybe that butler comes from a subordinate family... from which other butlers could be extracted, at need. |
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2014-05-31, 18:08 | Link #67 | |
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Doesn't matter, because the character for '4' is in their name. Japanese and Chinese people will automatically associate that with 'death'. The company 'Four Leaves technology' doesn't have the character or number for '4' in its name - it's in English, and it's pronounced 'four', so there's far less of a stigma attached.
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Nope. But that's not the point that the show/story is raising, is it?
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2014-05-31, 18:11 | Link #68 | ||
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They don't have to choose, and as long as they avoid giving Miyuki too many reasons to turn that butler into popsicle, they won't have to choose. But if they did. |
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2014-05-31, 18:14 | Link #70 | |
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But wouldn't he still have some say in who works for him? ...or maybe not, if Aoki is hired by Maya to keep track of him in the first place... *shrugs* I'm not fussed either way though.
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2014-05-31, 18:24 | Link #76 |
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We know Tatsuya and his father aren't exactly on the best of terms right now. Something about him turning down a job he offered to set him up with to go to high school, that Miyuki even admits he doesn't need..
It's pertty clear the job was to be in charge of that research lab full time. Not exactly a sign of disrespect since he is still doing these thing on his own. Nor is it like Tatsuya needed any help against the butler. His father did step in once thing started drifting to being about Tatsuya's mother but the only context we have is that he believes Tatsuya has reason to hate his mother
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