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Why do we call them disappearing blocks in Megaman "yoku" blocks? I looked up on a japanese dictionary and yoku does not even mean anything.

>> No.4307786

I call them where the fuck is rush jet blocks

>> No.4307798

>>4307732
>I looked up on a japanese dictionary and yoku does not even mean anything.
https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E3%82%88%E3%81%8F

>> No.4307804

>>4307798
良く nicely properly well skillfully frequently often
I don't see how that relates to disappearing blocks, though? Do they come up often?

>> No.4307824

>>4307732
>>4307804
I assume their nickname relates to the skill needed to pass the areas containing them, so you could translate that as "skill blocks" or something similar.

>> No.4307861

良く is an adverb and wouldn't mean skillfully in this context IMO. It's more likely that yoku refers to 欲, which means greed, ie if you get greedy and stay on it too long you'll be punished. Another possibility is that it is 翌, which means following/next as in "the following day", which could be because you have to consider the next place to land before even jumping to it.

>> No.4307867

btw I am not a huge MegaMan fan but after some quick googling I couldn't find any references in japanese calling them yoku

>> No.4307872

>Why do we call them disappearing blocks in Megaman "yoku" blocks?

But no one calls them that?

>> No.4307928

>>4307824
>>4307861
I would lean toward calling them either "skill blocks" or "sequential blocks" then.

>> No.4307953
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>>4307732
Is that really the best image of yoku blocks you could find?

>> No.4308063

Because the reaction is YOU FUKUR.

>> No.4308867

>>4307928
I just call them annoying.

>> No.4309074

Yoku can mean "often" which probably refers to how they quickly disappear and reappear.

>> No.4310478

See this is why hieroglyphic writing systems are so awful.

>> No.4310565

>>4310478
If you have the kanji it would be really clear what the meaning is, but with limited context you just have the romanizaed yoku which that sound applies to several different words (良く、欲、好く、翼、好く、抑)and those are only a few examples; it's like the English bear (animal), bear (carry/support), bear (to be named), bear (endure) etc.

From what I know it's doesn't anything to do with the Japanese name because in Japanese they are called 出現ブロック

>> No.4310581

>>4307732
>we
No

I really hope this is an exceptionally well organized troll thread. If no one on /vr/ can figure out why a few faggots call them Yoku blocks this place has truly gone to shit.

>> No.4310586

My only source for the name of those blocks is the エアーマンが倒せない song, in which they are referred to as 消える足場 (disappearing platforms).