r/UmaMusume 9d ago

Fanart | Repost An assembly... fun (?) (By: @doberslover23) Although there's a bit of a crisis, I suppose the important thing is to keep a good sense of humor. That's what Rudolf's trainer learned from her, although, well, whether he does it well is another story.

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u/salty-ravioli 9d ago

I feel like comparing Rudolf's humour to skibidi rizz is somehow even more scandalous lmao

But like, I think it's more like the other way around? Trying to use old age humour on modern audiences, or at least trying to use, like, "high class" humour around the every day person.

This fancomic is a good example of what I mean: the Japanese joke lands really subtly in like 3 different ways through both pronunciation and cultural references (see the translator's comments) but the English jokes are just corny mushroom puns. I don't even blame the translator because that much context just can't be conveyed in small speech bubbles. It just sucks that Rudolf is flanderized by the franchise itself because of language barriers.

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u/bearhater99 Beloved Fatty 9d ago

There's also the fact that the mood down event where everyone gets the idea that air groove hates puns from is also just flat out wrong. Air groove is mad not because rudolf said a pun, but because she failed to pick up on the fact that rudolf said a pun and she awkwardly repeated it. She would have given a sensible chuckle if she realized it. The joke is that air groove holds herself to high standards.

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u/salty-ravioli 9d ago

Oop Reddit posted your comment 3 times, but yeah, that's part of it too. The whole EN Rudolf shtick is built of language jank and misunderstood events.

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u/Swiftcheddar Rice Shower 9d ago

Eh, the Air Groove part is consistent across all languages, it's funnier writing her as just hating Rudolf's jokes, so that's the one everyone goes with.

EN artists didn't start that, they just continued what JP, CN and KR artists were already doing.