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Since the Japanese are downstream of submarnites such as myself, one of the older memes on the Japanese internet that has recently resurfaced is the remixing of songs/videos into "Nomurisshu" - a term corresponds miraculously closely to "speaking like Sephiroth," in referring to the Final Fantasy games, Tetsuya Nomura being Sephiroth's character designer.
I've seen Nomurisshu used pretty broadly for chuuni and, at the extremes, even generally archaic prose in general, and perhaps beyond some specific FF lines that gets referenced there is little justification for a firm distinction between Final Fantasy prose and the general chuuni writing style it is readily conflated with. As concerns the FF series proper, however, my impression is that Sephiroth is a massive fucking pseud in a way that is perhaps fortunately not represented in English translation. Or more specifically, that he employs the typical grab-bag of semi-archaizing conventions around chuunibyou/anime speech that has little relation to how actual archaic Japanese worked. (When I see a dubious construction like 選ばれし者 my first thought isn't of any properly archaic register of speech but of anime, for hopefully obvious reasons.) EoParody Sephiroth comes off as stiff in comparison, and perhaps a part of this is the typical crutch of writers to make grand and lofty speech sound formal and circumlocuitous as a crutch, as if one could not have one without turning up the dial on the other. But I don't think this can be…
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Wanikani - https://www.wanikani.com/
Precure Dolly Sensei - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkdmU8hGK4Fg3LghTVtKltQ
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Completely RNG tbh if you get kyuujitai or wikipedia radicals you can 10shot into the 6000s easily