someone who knows stuff about the Japanese language: what exactly is meant to be conveyed by a title that says something like "Title of Thing ~More Title~"? it seems very common in japanese music titles

oh yeah @typhlosion you're learning japanese, can you explain this thing?

@typhlosion there's an event in the game i'm playing a translation hack of titled "追求 ~風見を逮捕できない理由~"

@typhlosion but we also see it in music a lot, like on the Tales of the Abyss soundtrack there's a track called "A Song ~Song By Tear~"

@Felthry @typhlosion sounds like a subtitle, like English language songs would have in brackets, e.g. "Breathe (In the Air)" or "Helena (So Long & Goodnight)"

@noiob @typhlosion okay I agree with you but your use of the word brackets to mean parentheses is bugging me |3

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@Felthry @noiob parentheses are just round brackets hot take send post

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