Quote - I was watching Advent Children the other day and I realized that there's one little bit of Japanese characterization in CG and a lot of anime that is starting to annoy me.  It's when the character is agreeing with something, does a single brief nod and grunts an affirmative "Hmm".

I have no idea why this bugs the hell out of me but it does.  I suppose because it's an expression I simply don't see otherwise in real life.

I noticed that too when I was watching it, but I had recognized that expression from seeing it in the old Godzilla movies, I always thought it was a thing from Japanese culture so they take it as normal.

 Part of the trouble with the plot I think is in the translation. I took that part when Tifa was chiding him about "dilly-dally, shilly-shally" with a grain of salt since it probably was a similar concept that might have sound better in Japanese.

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