For the last little while I've been unable to shake off the habit of taking various badass movie lines and envisioning them as delivered by Inazuma. This produces many very amusing mental images (for instance, "You forgot your fortune cookie; it says you're shit outta luck nanodesu"), but I think I may just have run across the one that is destined to be my enduring favorite:

INAZUMA
(quietly)
One: Don't you ever touch me again. Two: Don't you ever touch me again nanodesu. Now. You have no idea who the hell I am or where I've come from, and I am not about to tell you my whole life story. All I need to be to you and everybody else in this naval base is a fixed. point nanodesu. The last destroyer afloat. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration nanodesu. All I need are your compliance and your fighting skills. And if I can't get those, then you can go back to the breaker's yard I found you rusting in nanodesu. Do I make myself clear?

ŌI nods reluctantly. INAZUMA makes a sarcastic I-can't-hear-you gesture.

ŌI
(grudgingly)
... yes, ma'am.

INAZUMA
Good.

She turns and walks off into the elevator.

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If this isn't a thing that appears in a story, it SHOULD be.

Inazuma for main character status.

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this nanodesu."

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Does anyone else get the impression Inazuma has been taking How To Be Inazuma lessons from Captain Sarah Inazuma...?

(They're on the same planet now, that's enough of a narrativium concentration to guarantee that they meet and Hilarity Ensues. Probably including many loud explosions.)

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"I have a ship named after me, how pleasing nanodesu."

"You're not doing it right nanodesu."

"Oh nanodesu?"

"Ah, Sarah is scary nanodesu."

So Inazuma is confirmed as Corwin's secretary ship? Or do the 6th DesDiv girls take turns?

LAST EDITED ON Jan-16-16 AT 02:15 PM (EST)
 
72 hours ago: "He's looking at me nanodesu!"

48 hours ago: Inazuma and Utena went out to pick up baozi.

Now: "Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me nanodesu?"

Peter Eng
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LAST EDITED ON Jan-16-16 AT 03:13 PM (EST)
 
>72 hours ago: "He's looking at me nanodesu!"
>
>48 hours ago: Inazuma and Utena went out to pick up baozi.
>
>Now: "Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me
>nanodesu?"

I mentally caption all fanart images of Inazuma being Martially Effective "Here's that asskicking you ordered nanodesu."

--G.
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"Spectre Lance, this is Castle. Operations check."

"Spectre 4, ready op."

"Spectre 3, all green."

"Spectre 2. I'm good to go."

"Castle, this is Spectre 1. Spectre Lance is ready op nanodesu."

--G.
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"Fleet of Fog! Transform and Weigh Anchor nanodesu!"

"Um, Optimus? Can she do that?"

"I don't see why not. What's good for the Bot is good for the Battleship, so to speak. Ahem... nanodesu"

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Now I really want to write to Peter Cullen.

Mr Cullen,
I would greatly appreciate the following line released on the internet.
"Autobots, Transform and Roll Out! nanodesu" utilizing your great vocal talents as Optimus Prime.

Yours sincerely,
Hotaru Lind

I wouldn't though, but hey Mr Cullen, if you happen to come across this?
Please don't hate me? Please?

now all you sucka DJs who think you're fly
there's got to be a reason and we know the reason why nanodesu
you try to put on those airs and act real cool
but you got to realize that you're acting like fools nanodesu
if there's music we can use it, feel free to dance
we don't have the time for psychological romance nanodesu

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"Oh, they're going to have to glue you back together—IN HELL nanodesu!"

--G.
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"... with water from the sprinkler. It also left a man's decapitated body, lying on the floor next to his own severed head. A head which at this time has no name."

"I know his name nanodesu."

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>"... with water from the sprinkler. It also left a man's
>decapitated body, lying on the floor next to his own severed head. A
>head which at this time has no name."
>
>"I know his name nanodesu."

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this at the time, but upon revisiting this image, it automatically chained to,

"Hi. I'm Candy."

"... Of course you are nanodesu."

--G.
"I have something to say! It's better to burn out than fade away nanodesu."
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"My name is Inazuma! And I will have my revenge nanodesu!"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are nanodesu."

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

"And here - we - go nanodesu."

-----

The most wonderful thing about BBs
Is BBs are wonderful things
Their sides are made out of iron
Their guns are made out of pain
They're crashy smashy bashy flashy fun-fun-fun-fun-fun
But the most wonderful thing about BBs
Is there is more than one
The~re is more than one!

"What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career nanodesu. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let them go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you nanodesu."

--sofaspud
--

>"What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have
>acquired over a very long career nanodesu.
>Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let them
>go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not
>pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you,
>and I will kill you nanodesu."

Adapting and reattributing that speech just never gets old for me. :)

(My most RTd tweet of all time was, "If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, you have a very particular set of skills," which got RTd by William Gibson. :)

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"I can tell you the license numbers of all six cars outside nanodesu. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the grey truck outside, and at fourteen knots I can cruise for five thousand nautical miles before I need refueling nanodesu. Now why would I know that? How can I know all that and not know who I am?"

--G.
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"Well, Emil, it looks like it's just you, and me, and your balls, and this drawer nanodesu."

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>"Well, Emil, it looks like it's just you, and me, and your balls, and
>this drawer nanodesu."
>

P.A.G.A.n. - People Against Goodness And nanodesu

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"I think that's our man nanodesu. Check the description we got from the landlady."

"Big, bad, stupid-lookin'-poi."

"A perfect match nanodesu."

--G.
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INAZUMA marches into room full of hostages and Abyssals, then seems to whip her turret from her back pocket before blasting the Wo-class leader.

INAZUMA
Anybody else want to negotiate nanodesu?

"He's fast, I'll give Banzai that. But one heat-seeking missile and he's history nanodesu."

LAST EDITED ON Jul-07-16 AT 08:46 PM (EDT)
 
"Bite my shiny, metal ass nanodesu."

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

>"Bite my shiny, metal ass nanodesu."

... Well that just doesn't make any sense

--G.
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>>"Bite my shiny, metal ass nanodesu."
>
>... Well that just doesn't make any sense
>

"That is, I say, that is the joke, son nanodesu.

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

"And I am all out of bubblegum nanodesu"

"Dad... I'm not a crazed gunboat, Dad, I'm a destroyer. Well the difference being, one's a hull classification and the other's mental sickness nanodesu."

--G.
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>"Dad... I'm not a crazed gunboat, Dad, I'm a destroyer. Well the
>difference being, one's a hull classification and the other's
>mental sickness nanodesu."
>

"If you order now- I'll throw in a second sinking absolutely free nanodesu!"

Peter Eng
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>>"Dad... I'm not a crazed gunboat, Dad, I'm a destroyer. Well the
>>difference being, one's a hull classification and the other's
>>mental sickness nanodesu."
>>
>
>"If you order now- I'll throw in a second sinking absolutely free
>nanodesu!"

"absolutely free-poi," surely.

--G.
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>
>"absolutely free-poi," surely.
>

You're probably right - and don't call me Shirley nanodesu.

Peter Eng
--
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>>
>>"absolutely free-poi," surely.
>>
>
>You're probably right - and don't call me Shirley nanodesu.

"What's that, Sandwich?" asked Akagi, tilting her head. "Kill them all? Ha ha! I like the way you think!"

--G.
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>"What's that, Sandwich?" asked Akagi, tilting her head. "Kill them
>all? Ha ha! I like the way you think!"

"'If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!' Sun Tzu said that, and I, Yamato, think he knows a little more about fighting than you do, sir."

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Is BBs are wonderful things
Their sides are made out of iron
Their guns are made out of pain
They're crashy smashy bashy flashy fun-fun-fun-fun-fun
But the most wonderful thing about BBs
Is there is more than one
The~re is more than one!

LAST EDITED ON Oct-01-16 AT 02:21 PM (EDT)
 
"This—is—Spartaaaaa!"

"Aaaaiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

"Nanodesu."

--G.
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INAZUMA
(calmly)
Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence. If you have any plans of seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never EVER put in a trap.

KURITA
And what is that?

INAZUMA
Me nanodesu.

The TORPEDOES begin arriving.

--G.
"No... not without incident nanodesu."
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Ooh, excellent! Although now I'd like to see this bookended with a conversion of Roman!Rory's little speech to the Cybermen... <eeeeeeeeeeeeevil grin>

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>Ooh, excellent! Although now I'd like to see this bookended with a
>conversion of Roman!Rory's little speech to the Cybermen...
><eeeeeeeeeeeeevil grin>

"Would you like me to repeat the question-poi?"

--G.
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WO
(blandly)
"Wo. Wo."
Subtitle: "The anger of a good ship is not a problem. Good ships have too many rules."

INAZUMA
(furious)
"Good ships don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many. nanodesu"

"You think you can stop me now, Daleks?! If you want my life, Come And Get It! nanodesu"

"What a day! What a lovely day nanodesu!"

"nanodesu.."

"Do doo be-do-do."

"nanodesu."

"Do do-do do."

"nanodesu."

"Do doo be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do-doodle do do do-doo do!"

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

In the style of Piero or Mana?

...!
Gott's Leetle Feesh in Trousers!

>In the style of Piero or Mana?
>
>...!
>Gott's Leetle Feesh in Trousers!

Hard to decide. Let's split the difference, and go with Cake's version. :)

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Na na na na
Nanodesu
Hey hey hey
Goodbye.

--G.
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>Na na na na
>Nanodesu
>Hey hey hey
>Goodbye.
>

Corwin: "Can we all just agree to keep Inazuma off the Internet for pretty much forever?"

Iona: "I think it's too late for that."

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

So I was watching Need for Speed for some reason and this popped into my head at the end of the movie
"Down goes Dino! nanodesu"

Nagato: On your own from the age of fifteen; reckless, aggressive, and undisciplined.
Inazuma: This is a rebellion, isn't it? I rebel nanodesu.

Tatsuta: My sister says you're a friend. I will not kill you.
Inazuma: Thanks nanodesu.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-14-16 AT 02:44 AM (EDT)
 
IKU
Look, Kongō!

She points to one of the command center screens, on which rotates a wireframe mesh of an aircraft carrier. The others gape in astonishment.

KONGŌ
Enterprise desu!

NIMU
Enterprise!

GŌYA
Enterprise dechi!

YŪ
(quietly)
It's only a model.

KONGŌ
Shh!

--G.
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Oh dear. This could go to a very silly place.

INAZUMA
"Mola Ram, prepare to meet Kali...in Hell nanodesu! "

INAZUMA
Shit! I can't believe it!

YUUDACHI
What?

INAZUMA
YOU BURNT THE FUCKIN' MONEY nanodesu!

YUUDACHI
I had to blow the door-poi! What do you want?

INZUMA
It's as good as MARKED nanodesu! You asshole, you stupid, stupid asshole!

--G.
"I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake dechi."
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KONGŌ
Dead or alive, you're coming with me desu.

EXT. NIGHT. A group of KANMUSU stand at the New Yokosuka quayside, looking off toward the sea. They look bemused, but not concerned. Off near the horizon, there are a lot of things exploding and/or on fire, but it's too dark to tell anything more than that.

RYŪJŌ
Welp... looks like Musashi's gettin' laid again.

--G.
BONUS RIFF
BISMARCK
(threateningly)
You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Musashi. Hitler hung me on a hook once. ONCE.
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>RYŪJŌ
>Welp... looks like Musashi's gettin' laid again.

Oh, my. *^_^*

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Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

>
>>RYŪJŌ
>>Welp... looks like Musashi's gettin' laid again.
>
>Oh, my. *^_^*

Because all within my head is '80s movie references...

--G.
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"It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly sunk. There's a big difference between mostly sunk and completely sunk. Now, mostly sunk is slightly afloat. Now, completely sunk, well, with completely sunk, there's usually only one thing that you can do."

"What's that?"

"Call in the salvage divers and look for loose ordnance."

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your propellors below the waterline nanodesu. Then your gun mounts. Next your catapults nanodesu. The next thing you will lose will be your radar followed by your sonar nanodesu-"

"And then my radio, I understand let's get on with it."

"WRONG nanodesu. Your radio you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every destroyer will be yours to cherish nanodesu. Every frigate that weeps at your approach, every cruiser who cries out, 'Dear God, what is that thing?' will echo in your perfect radio nanodesu. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever nanodesu."

INT. YUUDACHI is crawling inside a narrow and dusty ventilation shaft with only a Zippo to light the way.

YUUDACHI
Now I know what a TV dinner feels like-poi.

>
>
>INT. YUUDACHI is crawling inside a narrow and dusty ventilation shaft
>with only a Zippo to light the way.
>
>YUUDACHI
>Now I know what a TV dinner feels like-poi.

A Big Fire operative played by Alan Rickman stares in moderate apprehension at the office chair in the elevator, and the words scrawled across the hull of the defunct Abyssal duct-taped to it: "Now I have a sixteen-incher. Nanodesu."

>"Now
>I have a sixteen-incher. Nanodesu."

i have been to the bad parts of the internet recently so er.

oh no.

ohhh nooo.

where is the brain bleach make it stop.

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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

"I'm here to fix your washing machine-poi."

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>
>
>INT. YUUDACHI is crawling inside a narrow and dusty ventilation shaft
>with only a Zippo to light the way.
>
>YUUDACHI
>Now I know what a TV dinner feels like-poi.

Different movie, same aesthetic:

YUUDACHI
Four years of ROTC for THIS shit, poi?

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"I am Groot nanodesu."

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

seen in chat today; relevant, I thought.

"'Innit' is British for 'desu'."

Relatively relevant: this song.

Funny how it never occurred to me, but that's completely accurate. I'm fairly sure I say it every now and then, and where I live isn't even one of the bits of the UK where I know it is common.

Life's weird like that, innit? ;)

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>seen in chat today; relevant, I thought.
>
>"'Innit' is British for 'desu'."

More evidence for my contention that Anime should be dubbed into British English, not American.

(The first reason was that Kansai-ben can't be meaningfully translated as any American accent -- the usual go-to's, Brooklyn and Southern, are both wrong -- whereas translating it as something like Liverpool when you're dubbing Tokyo as London would be pretty accurate.)

"None of you seem to understand nanodesu. I'm not docked here with you. You're docked here with me! nanodesu."

--sofaspud
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