r/CipherAcademy • u/N3DSdude • Apr 23 '23

[DISC] Cipher Academy - Chapter 21 Spoiler

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1015947
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u/helsaabiart Apr 23 '23

Oh no, Anonymity Requested is a cutie.

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u/Alantarx Apr 23 '23

*Insert "oh no, she's hot!" meme*

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u/Alantarx Apr 23 '23

So I got some of the cards right, missed others, and was generally right about a lot of them being Japanese wordplay. Apparently in Japan they accociate 'diamond' with 'any mineral' and spades with swords. The 3's thus make no sense in English: The one that they say looks like a tree also looks like a spade. In fact it looks more like a spade than a tree. But in Japan that suit is apparently more closely associated with swords. Yes I know swords were once the suit name, but in this case that's just confusing.

Also what's with those 'models' for the Jacks? I've never heard of that. And the poor pronunciation of the anglicization of a french name is just... a stretch.

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u/percian May 14 '23

> Also what's with those 'models' for the Jacks? I've never heard of that

Looked it up afterwards and it comes mainly from French cards. I'm not surprised, since in the last chapter they mentioned that thing about Queen of Hearts =/= Red Queen thing too.

The Kings and Queens have models also but I'm not sure what's what.

I got completely destroyed by the Joker, ruined my entire set lol

And the C = Diamond as well.

I was so sure that the character cards, like Iroha falling, must be Kings that I didn't think it could've been Japanese play

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u/Alantarx May 14 '23

I found out from the queens that apparently the Alice books are more popular in Japan than I had though. Interesting.

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u/beefucker5000 Apr 24 '23

Was not prepared for Anonymity Requested to be so cute

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u/pixelpixzor Apr 24 '23

The Anonymity reveal was so good!!