[Fish Sandwich]

At long last, the day has come! You mention my role as a translation cop, but neglect my true purpose!

Learning Ondul the Easy WEEEEEEI! (#EX)




Today's lesson introduces us to a character so memetic, he transcends worlds. Junichi Shimura was Kamen Rider Glaive back in the Blade movie. Nobody really makes jokes about him. Junichi Kaitou was Kamen Rider Glaive, older brother of Kamen Rider Diend, in a weird pair of Decade episodes that tied the backstory of that show's secondary Rider together with alternate versions of characters from the Blade movie. People love making jokes about this Junichi. His immensely creepy fabricated smile earned him a spot in the elite club of Blade characters who have their own emoticons, with his being ( ^ U ^ ), which you may or may not see with those spaces.

While the smile alone would be enough, those couple of lines to his lil' bro (ii serifu da. kandouteki da na. daga muimi da.) were loaded with potential to be endlessly repurposed in different contexts, as well as being just kind of an amusing bit of dialogue to begin with. It has all the hallmarks of the greats of Ondul, and thus, this version of Junichi was promptly adopted into the language, becoming just as much of a fixture as anything from the original show.

And since he shows up so much, I actively held back on sharing a certain video back when we were actually going through Blade. So, now that we're taking this trip into Diend's world, I'm ready to present to you all the ultimate treasure of Ondul culture! When viral music medleys on Nico Nico Douga mix with memetic Blade quotes, the result is a work of true art of such depth and complexity that even I, in my years of study, have yet to fully comprehend its infinite beauty. All of these lessons were always to prepare you for this. Without further ado, here's Nanairo no Ondul Douga: