💬 どれほど means "how much / how greatly," often in emotional or rhetorical lines. だか after a plain form like 存在だ turns it into "how ... it is," as in どれほど大事だか.
💬 分かったか is literally "understood?" but often means "Do you realize?" or "Got it?" か makes it a question, and in rough speech it can sound forceful rather than polite.
How much this woman was chased by a giant organization
💬 どれほど sets up "how much / how huge," and the sentence leaves the verb for later. Japanese often builds a long description first, then gives the main point at the end.
kono onna ga dore hodo kyodai na soshiki ni owa re te ki ta ka wakatsu ta ka
Do you realize how huge of an organization this woman has been pursued by?!
💬 〜てきた shows something continuing up to the present, so 追われてきた means "has been pursued" over time. The pattern 〜か分かったか gives "Do you realize ... ?" after a whole embedded question.
💬 の can show possession, but often it's broader than English "'s." ロビンの敵 is "Robin's enemy" here, but the same pattern also makes labels like 日本の会社 or 私の考え.
I now understand well the identity of Robin's enemy.
💬 よく分かった usually means "I understand clearly now" or "I get it now," not just "I understood well" in a literal sense. よく often adds the feeling of clear understanding: よく分からない is "I don't really understand."
💬 撃ち抜け is a command form: a blunt, forceful "shoot through it!" You'll hear the same style in action scenes with verbs like 行け or 止まれ.
🇯🇵 This is a very direct order, the kind of line you hear in battle or high-stakes scenes. In real life, this command form can sound harsh unless you're giving urgent instructions or quoting something dramatic.
💬 撃ち抜け is a blunt command form, stronger than a polite request. This pattern is common in dramatic speech: 急げ, 見ろ, 守れ.
🇯🇵 The line lands as a battlefield-style order, not normal everyday phrasing. In real life, using this form casually can sound aggressive or overly dramatic.
💬 名を〜 is a dramatic shortened way to say something like "with the name ..." or "named ..." It's stylized speech; in ordinary talk you'd more likely hear 名前は〜 or 〜という名だ.
This is my new weapon, a huge slingshot... named Kabuto!
💬 名を〜 is a dramatic, compressed way to announce a name: "named ..." It's not the everyday way to introduce names, but you'll hear it in speeches, anime, and heroic self-intros.
💬 見よ is an old-fashioned or dramatic command form of 見る. It means "look!" or "behold!" and sounds much more theatrical than everyday 見て or 見てください.
🇯🇵 This has a grand, showman-like tone, fitting a boast or dramatic reveal. In real life it would sound archaic or intentionally theatrical, not neutral.
💬 見よ is a dramatic "look!" form, much more theatrical than normal conversation. とくと adds "carefully / well," so together it has a strong "take a good look!" feeling.
🇯🇵 This sounds like performance speech: someone showing off power and demanding attention. A local would hear it as intentionally dramatic, not ordinary daily Japanese.
💬 The broken start や… やりやがった shows a shocked stammer: "th-they actually did it." 〜やがる adds anger or contempt, so やりやがった is much rougher than plain やった.
🇯🇵 This is very rough, emotional speech, usually from someone angry, shocked, or looking down on the other side. It fits heated confrontations, not normal polite conversation.
💬 〜てん is a casual spoken contraction of 〜ている: 分かっている → 分かってん. You'll hear this a lot in rough or fast speech.
🇯🇵 This sounds blunt and heated, the way someone talks when angry or in a crisis. In everyday life, the contracted form is common in casual speech, but with のか here it comes off especially confrontational.
aitsu ra ki e no kougeki no imi ga wakatsu ten no ka
Do they understand what it means to attack the flag?!
💬 分ってん is a casual contraction of 分かっている, so the whole ending means "Do they understand ... ?" in a rough spoken style. への turns 旗 into "to/toward the flag," giving 旗への攻撃 = "an attack on the flag."
🇯🇵 The line is angry and accusatory, not neutral. A local would hear it as heated confrontation speech, especially with あいつら and the rough question ending.
💬 With verbs like 宣戦布告する, に marks the target: 世界政府に宣戦布告する = declare war on the World Government. You can reuse that pattern with other targets too, like 会社に抗議する (protest to / against a company).
💬 〜しやがった adds anger or contempt to what happened. Compare plain 宣戦布告した with 宣戦布告しやがった — same action, but this version sounds like "the bastards went and did it."
🇯🇵 This is very rough, emotional speech you hear in angry outbursts, fiction, and macho talk. In real life, using 〜しやがる about someone is openly hostile.
💬 正気か literally means "sane?" and drops everything else for impact. Japanese often does this in heated speech: just noun + か, like 本気か ("are you serious?").
🇯🇵 貴様 is not a normal "you" in modern Japanese — it's a hostile, insulting way to address someone. 貴様ら makes that aimed at a group, so it lands like "you bastards" depending on tone.
💬 敵に回す is a set phrase meaning to turn someone into your enemy or put them on the opposing side. You can swap in other targets: 世間を敵に回す = make society your enemy.
💬 望むところだ literally means "that's exactly what I want," and is a set fighting-challenge line: "bring it on." You'll also hear it in other confrontations, not just physical fights.
🇯🇵 This sounds bold and combative, like accepting a challenge with confidence. It's common in action stories; in real life it would sound theatrical unless used jokingly.
💬 口から here means "from your own mouth," not just physically from a mouth. It's a common way to say you want to hear something said directly by the person: 本人の口から聞く = hear it from the person themself.
💬 口から聞く means to hear something directly from someone's own lips, and 聞いてねえ is a rough version of 聞いていない. So the line means not just "we haven't heard," but "we haven't heard you say it yourself yet."
🇯🇵 The roughness comes from both お前 and ねえ. It sounds emotional and forceful, but here it's pushing someone to speak up rather than just insulting them.
💬 と言え is the command form of と言う, so it means "say it." After quoted words, と marks what someone should say: 名前を言え = say your name, 生きたいと言え = say "I want to live."
🇯🇵 This is a blunt command, but in this scene it's being used to force an honest confession out of someone. In real life, the plain command 言え usually sounds harsh unless the situation is very emotional or hierarchical.
💬 生きたい is the plain "want to live," and と言え means "say it" after a quoted thought or phrase. So the structure is literally: "Say, 'I want to live.'"
🇯🇵 Even though 言え is blunt, this line is emotionally supportive, not just bossy. The force is there to push someone to finally voice what they really want.
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