Season 8, Episode 8: This Message Is a Warning About Danger (Patreon)

This week MSB covers Stardust Memory Episode 8: 策謀の宙域 / Conspiracy Sector. The transition to the new chief director is complete, sex education in the Universal Century is atrocious, Monsha graduates from serious irritant to detestable scamp, and everybody thinks they know What Women Want.

Show Notes

Personal Pronouns in Japanese

• Personal Pronouns, from Tofugu (Japanese language-learning website).
• Boku, Ore, Watashi, Atashi: 15 Japanese Person Pronouns, from Takashi's Japanese Dictionary. 
• Personal Pronouns in Japanese, from Wa-Pedia.
• Clyde Mandelin, Tricky Translations #4: "I" & "Me" in Japanese, from Legends of Localization.
• The many ways to say "I," from NihonShock.
• Articles:
  
  Ono, Tsuyoshi & Thompson, Sandra. (2003). Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku 'l': They're Not Just Pronouns. Cognitive Linguistics. 14. 321-347. 10.1515/cogl.2003.013. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251489612_Japanese_watashioreboku_'l'_They're_Not_Just_Pronouns
  
  Gottlieb, Nanette. Review of Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 32 no. 2, 2006, p. 471-474. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jjs.2006.0046.

ボクっ子 / Bokukko, ボク少女 / Bokushoujo, and 僕女 / Bokuonna

• Japanese Wikipedia entry for ボク少女 / Bokushoujo.
• Pixiv entry on the bokkuko character type with examples and comparisons to the real world.
• Question and answer thread posted on Yahoo Japan from a Junior High School student asking for advice and perspectives on her use of the 僕 (boku) pronoun.

The Life and Pronouns of 川島 芳子 / Kawashima Yoshiko / Kawashima Ryousuku / 愛新覺羅·顯玗 / Aisin Gioro Xianyu / 金璧輝 / Jin Bihui / 東珍 / Dongzhen

• English and Japanese Wikipedia articles about Kawashima / 川島.
• Recording from an album of songs performed by Kawashima.
• Book:
  
  Birnbaum, Phyllis. Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army. Columbia University Press, 2015. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.7312/birn15218. Accessed 25 July 2023.

Old Soldiers Never Die

• Context for how the quote 'old soldiers never die, they just fade away' become famous in the U.S. in the 1950s.
• More about the history of the quote and the song from which it derives.

The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.

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