The Incredible Wordplay Behind "Good Mio Day"

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

I really like the attention to detail of showing the cutscene with the only time a Xenoblade character has ever said the name of an in-universe month across all three games while you were explaining Japan has proper month names but they're mostly not used

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

Oh, I made this comment before resuming the video and hearing you explain that directly lol

[@tepig2828]

I can’t believe that I have played enough games with Japanese wordplay that I instantly realized that 3 = Mi was going to be part of the pun.

[@ArveEriksson]

I picked that up from Utawarerumono, myself.

[@Kirbyfan86_27]

Happy late Good Mio Day everyone!

[@thomasnguyen4427]

best 8 minutes of the last day of november I've spent

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

WOOO AUTISTIC XENO HYPERFIXATION BOYS RISE UP! Also double fun for me because i know some Japanese

[@Alban_Blade_Memer]

When I'm in a autism competition and my opponent is a xenoblade (or xenoserie as a whole) fan. Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary. 🗿🤝

[@oneish7454]

Que?

[@AlponseE1ric]

Autism is when you have interests

[@Alban_Blade_Memer]

@@AlponseE1ric xenoblade is my interest. I was diagnosed as austist it's cannon event.

[@alvis1218]

We're really lucky to get all these so quickly! 👀

[@marquis2736]

Last hour of November 30th, Happy Good Mio Day!

[@cyberrb25]

There is a concept that is Goroawase, which is the art of making text out of numbers, or vice versa. For example, if you look at many of the Sword and Shield challengers, they do have a number, and all numbers (except Leon iirc) have a pun associated. Bea is 193 -> いくさ -> Fight Nessa is 049 -> **お**よぐ -> To swim And Eevee Day is 11/21 because: - 1121 -> いいぶい (which is Eevee's name in Japanese). Goroawase! PS.: If you go to the page for Goroawase on the Wikipedia, you can see the Goroawase for the marathon, and it's pretty fitting. It's not unlike mnemonics. Or Namco being なむこ -> 765

[@evanpereira3555]

An other sign that doing a marathon is a bad idea.

[@colour_fall14]

Another example is HAL for the kirby franchise, since they will typically sneak 86 into any important numbers in the lore (ha - ro if you shorten hachi and roku, which sounds close to the japanese pronunciation of HAL)

[@Kyronex0]

A big example of this is Sho Minamimoto in The World Ends With You. In English, he constantly makes various math puns, but that's because in Japanese he speaks almost exclusively with goroawase mnemonics, which is why the other characters have such a hard time understanding him (they're not bad at math, he's actually just that weird)

[@NathanSawyer-q5n]

We appreciate the silliest Gormotti

[@lanteanboy]

I thought Nia was the silliest Gormotti

[@NathanSawyer-q5n]

@ fair enough she is less silly than her mom

[@rhettmitchell]

Definitely 2nd silliest lol

[@NathanSawyer-q5n]

@@rhettmitchell indubitably

[@lanteanboy]

@@rhettmitchell to be fair.... we don't know many more important Gormotti besides those 2

[@Lowglory]

Good (late) Mio day everyone!

[@chuckbatman5]

I'm glad my initial thought of 0 in 30 = o in Mio was 100% accurate even if the rest of this went way over my head

[@HiKrispy]

This is the peak of the xenoblade community

[@Tomoyo_Sayomura]

いいミオの日

[@RealBrain]

I enjoy this a lot as I know some Japanese, so I had an idea where it was going

[@asprinjuice425]

this was uploaded December first for me.... Lol

[@FlufflesTheCatDragon]

Happy good Mio day everyone

[@roslin8060]

Took me almost halfway through with my limited Japanese knowledge to realize the final pun. Still satisfying.

[@IseFormal751]

“Happy good Mio day” - meaning 30th November. Meanwhile it’s already 1st December here in the uk when this was uploaded lol

[@captnBill_]

they have one of these days for almost every single touhou character japanese artists are crazy

[@manofwhy]

this is brilliant work, cheers

[@Zachruff]

thank you peter griffin for explaining the joke

[@mrmiesfies3941]

You are such a weeb. Get out and touch grass.

[@KudaGeatsune3821]

Luxin being the most obsessive Zeno fan and we're all here to support his addiction with validation Keep up the good Xeno dude~

[@drewhazel1121]

As a fan of Luxin, Xenoblade, Mio, Japanese, and puns, I am very happy!

[@xenomaxi8504]

Can't wait for Mio day now!

[@JustJulyo]

Everyday is a good Mio day

[@Bighomie39]

So you're saying Vocaloid fans should push for 39 days in November...

[@lizadon0740]

Damit im watching this the day after good mio day. See you all in 364 days.

[@uselessgod-4934]

7:50 All that work, for something I would’ve happily believed even if it was a lie lol

[@MetroidGX]

We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.

[@Dominik-K]

Happy good Mio day

[@ArveEriksson]

An internet with Luxin in it is a good internet.

[@keroclow9059]

Why am I not surprised

[@tbcDavben]

The holiest of holidays 🙏

[@SearchmanDS]

The way Japan can come up with things like this requires a good wordsmith

[@briansilva3765]

M'Quve did nothing wrong. He helped the Federation win after all.

[@Blockio1999]

I love Japanese number puns so much

[@chipi4179]

I did not understand anything, but I like Mio so.... Happy (late) Mio day! and today is Xenoblade 2 anniversary!!

[@Axecon1]

Perhaps another reason why November 30th was celebrated for Mio Day - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 came out Dec 1st. Mio has ties to XC2 even though she's an XC3 character.

[@MaskedMan0419]

I dont know how i got here but im having a great time.

[@YasEmisDaBus]

Oshi day would’ve been the 4th, as in certain contexts the kanji 四/ number 4 is read as し (this is generally avoided to to it being homophonic with the Japanese for death)

[@cyberrb25]

Unfortunately for me, on Bluesky Good Mio Day is for another Mio.

[@temporaneo617]

MQUVE MENTION LET'S GOOOOOOO🗣🔥

[@link28469]

Confused by what he means on the "down the toilet" statement. I've found in the last couple of years that it has become a more than invaluable resource for xeno news and info

[@nathanblackburn1193]

Twitter in general is becoming absolute garbage, bots everywhere, people leaving, Elon Musk being a moron, etc

[@trinity31409]

And I thought you went a long way around to make a point...A joke of course since your "immorally long" XC3 Direct analysis was awesome.

[@someguycalledgoober155]

Huh, I share a month with a Xenoblade character. Neat.

[@Asriel-db1zj]

sadly there is no 39th day becuase then we could have good miku day

[@mrmiesfies3941]

This video could have been a minute long.

[@ShuajoX]

Good Mio Day is my birthday!

[@orionmcbear]

THATS MY MIOO

[@Steelbleeder]

Forced twitter bashing is so cringe. It's the same as it has been

[@moonsilvershow]

oki really small nitpick, but the pronunciation for any year ending with a four drops the "n" in "yon". so 2024 is "nisen'nijuuyonen". just to be like, specific lol. tangent, the same goes for hours

[@moonsilvershow]

also i could def be wrong here, but i thought the reason for the eleven pun was moreso a shortening of "ichi ichi", as you'll often see "ichi" shortened in front of a counter, like "ippon", meaning "one long thin thing", or "issatsu", meaning one of something shaped like a book. but im def seeing that through a language perspective and not an online perspective so yeah i was probably wrong lol

[@moonsilvershow]

yet another tangent, oshi no hi was probably the fourth, as the 04 can be read as "o" and "shi", as "shi" is the chinese-loaned word for four in japanese.

[@moonsilvershow]

okay sorry im a linguistics nerd and also a japanese speaker so imma go off on some of the other days: the twenty second being couple day is a pun on "fuufu", meaning couple (usually a married one, unmarried you usually just call a kappuru), and the native japanese word for two, being "fu", as seen in many of the counting words for two, like "futari" (two people), or "futatsu" (two of something you dont wanna use a different counter for).

[@moonsilvershow]

a good thing to keep in mind for the logic of these puns is that there are really two sets of numbers in japanese: the native Japanese words, and the words borrowed from chinese way back when. the native words go: hi, fu, mi, yon, itsu, mutsu, nana, ya, kokono, and tou. the chinese words are the more common ones you hear, especially when first starting out learning japanese: ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyuu, and juu

[@moonsilvershow]

imma be real idk where they got thigh day, its usually said as "momo" or "futomomo" and the only one i can glean is the "futo" coming from two. idk where the "momo" would come from tho. butt day probably gets done with a day with a four in it, for "shi" in "oshiri", unless they're using "ketsu" but i wouldnt know cos im not that chronically online. one that i do know of is "niku no hi", which comes from two and nine making "ni" and "ku" (kyuu is sometimes changed to ku, its a thing). this ones for just like, drawing characters thiccly cos niku means meat lol. my chronic online-ness is sporadic

[@knuclear200x]

Wotah

[@DaCrazyHand]

Dunno what you're on about, Twitter's far better now than it was before.

[@devanshsrivastava3171]

You are a rare breed brotha Never change

[@chipwiseman2]

I think the 11 becoming ii is doubly reinforced by the most common Japanese reading of 1 (一) being ichi (いち), or just i (い) for short

[@jamieh9466]

Right, there are a few routes to achieve this pun.

[@TM-45.]

Good bestgirl day

[@navolas2]

Shame it's December in Japan as I'm watching this

[@MrTheDank]

Mio Mio MIO!!!

[@hyliastone286]

Hey, have you moved to Bluesky yet? I wanna follow you c:

[@sonickhable]

Yup

[@hyliastone286]

@sonickhable Already following him

[@princessoscar3089]

MMMMMIIIOOOOOOOOO!!!

[@doublex85]

Don't really understand why this had to be 8 minutes. Goroawase is just a common Japanese thing. Everyone does it and you see it everywhere. The word "yakuza" comes from the bad 893 hand in a certain card game. Namco series Idolmaster has 765 Productions. Konami games often have 573 in them somewhere. Zelda Ocarina of Time has the "twenty-three is number one!" Deku scrub, originally _"nii-san wa ichiban!"_ Vtuber agency Nijisanji uses the number 2434 a lot. Hatsune Miku has 39. Goroawase on TV Tropes has a big ol' list.

[@sonchezz]

いいみ０のひ

[@ununitedstates7550]

Yo I am here early