Tom_Kosken

You can call me Tom if you prefer. Neither is my actual name sooo w/e.

 

Jormungando FTW! Yeah I love that anime/manga. Good to see a fellow fan. Btw Koko is the best girl there.

 

Recent developments here on Batoto. The announcement about changes to crack down on leechers. See I was an unregistered lurker but an observant one as I keep track of current state of affairs here.

 

Now for POI - It is a word that Yuudachi (kanmusu or ship-girl) a character from Kancolle a game that was also adapted in to an anime puts at the end of her sentences or uses standalone as a form of signature word. Think Naruto's dattebayo except much less annoying and much more cute or Kenshins gozaru. For more accurate I'm a gonna use copy paste from Kancolle wiki so please dont kill me. Hope it helps, here goes:

 

They got this:

About Yuudachis verbal tic 'っぽい' (poi), this is added onto the end of a word to signify a comparison or resemblance rather than the 'valley girl' version of like which is more like a verbal comma. For example kodomo poi would mean something similar to child-like or childish. Examples: cute with poi added is cute-ish, red would be red-ish and so on. 

 

But they also got this:

~poi in Japanese means "maybe", "perhaps" or "seems like", it's something you throw in the end of the sentence if you aren't too sure of the result and end up concluding the sentence by guessing. The main reason behind Yuudachi's speech pattern is because no one actually had a clear record of what she actually accomplished in the Guadalcanal Campaign. It was technically a huge mess during the fight and no one actually knew what was happening. Even though Yuudachi did wreak havoc in the battle, there are other ships who also claimed the kills. Since her battle records were unclear and involved a lot of guess work from naval historians from both sides after the war, the game version of Yuudachi landed with the "poi" catchphrase just to reflect that little piece of history. (You can see from her introduction line that she wasn't so sure of her battle result in Guadalcanal either.)

 

In my opinion it's really just something added in at the end of her spoken sentences to make her sound cute and it works.

 

Here knock yourself out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_Pc1ZK7aw  POIIII

Figured I'd say Hello but then I saw the line of topics named mostly "Hello" so I thought what the heck time for a combo breaker and I'll be that one guy.

 

Anyway. Hello everybody! You may call me Kosken or just you, I am used to it by now.

 

I was lurking in the shadows around here for what feels like forever. Given the recent developments I decided I should sign up just in case.

After playing around and getting used to the sites features I decided I might as well also socialize a little bit.

This site is really great. Man I should have signed up sooner though. The follow feature sure is great as it keeps track of what one reads.