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Old 2017-04-14, 07:00   Link #96
Alf
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Originally Posted by Kakkou View Post
She calls herself a troll in the show, not oni. On her character page her race is written as 喰人鬼 -troll-, as in it's meant to be read as "troll" even to Japanese viewers/readers. This is not a translation choice but something the author has clearly set from the get-go.
Ooops....I missed that. I only recalled the protagonist's thought, so that "human eating oni" was a pun that translated the Kanji into something else....
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