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Old 2013-02-24, 13:58   Link #7757
st_nick5
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Originally Posted by GabrieliosP View Post
That because the story does say "June of the 58th year of the Shouwa era" in japanese. R07 coud just have said the year like he does in Umineko, but used this format in Higurashi.
I imagine the line works when saying it in Japanese, but in English it's too much of a mouthful. They could have just said "June 1983", and it would have had the same meaning. More meaning in fact, as most English speakers won't know what year the 58th year of Shouwa was.
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