fireball ep 5
Rearranging the characters for "pleasant" in Japanese, you can get itchy.
By scrambling the word "indeed", you can get "monkey"
Merkur, Calendar Year 48698 Demon of the Frontal Lobe
Hey, Pakyaparado! Where are you, Pakyaparado?
Sorry to make you wait, my lady.
By the way, my name is Gedächtnis.
Don't interrupt me when I'm talking, pow pow.
Pow pow pow~
You seem a bit odd today.
I am a bit odd these days.
Why is that?
Today, I was supposed to wake up the same way as everyday, but voila!
Voila?
Sorry, I calculatingly...
You mean accidently.
There really seems to be something wrong with you today.
I apologize, really, my frontal lobe, or the front of my head, is very pleasant.
You mean itchy?
Okay, I can take a look at the front of your head.
But...
It's okay.
Please use these stairs.
That's convenient.
Please forgive my rudeness, my lady. I am not accustomed to deference.
That is true.
Due to its height, the head becomes zajizuzezo, zuzajizezo.
Note: "zajizuzezo" is the "z" line in the alphabet.
That's tategaki, I see.
"tategaki" is writing vertically, which is how the Japanese alphabet is writen.
I'm a bit tired.
Indeedy.
Indeedy...
So, how is it?
Uhm... it's interesting.
My lady?!
My lady, what do my lady?
This is a mystery...
Indeed.
Monkey!
This entire episode was based on Japanese wordplay. When Gedächtnis says one word, and Drossel goes "You mean ___?" it's because Gedächtnis screwed up the ordering of the Japanese characters. Muck with "pleasant" and you can get "itchy"... and so forth. And of course, at the end, Drossel got it. :3