Kingdom of Knuffel

its called Enemies are all nourishment for my fungi. Chinese name: 异界敌人皆我真菌养料
im telling you that bc i spent some time trying to find the names myself.

https://69shuba.cx/book/58492.htm

from shuba.

bookmark'd!

let me know if you like it! it can be read on both Chereads and Webnovel, although you can see if you can find it elsewhere for free without unlocking chapters. i usually do daily tasks on Chereads and Webnovel to get site passes to unlock chapters lol.

I'm reading "Simply the Quest" by Maz Evans, the second book in the Who Let the Gods Out? series which I had gotten for Christmas.

i haven't read much apart from fanfics lol

Okay right now I'm reading "Full-Time Artist" (also sometimes translated as "All-Rounder Artist") and it's a lot of fun once I just let go of all my outrage over the blatant MC plagiarism going on. I'm actually finding a lot of new artists, songs, paintings, books, etc.
So that part is actually not bad.



But I'm currently stumped.

I'm at this section where the MC is using the song "Sugar" (an English song) by the band "Maroon 5" where they had this music video of the band showing up crashing a bunch of weddings and performing at them.

And the characters in the novel keep talking about a pun in the song, something to do with shaving a coconut (or maybe peeling a coconut, or cutting a coconut skin) and handing over a pear.

I have looked all over these lyrics.

I can't find this pun.

I can't figure out what they're talking about!

The last three chapters or so, this is being mentioned, and it's driving me batty!

What pun?!

Is it a bilingual-required pun? And I don't speak the other required language? But... what pun?!?!

If anyone wants to help me figure it out, here's a link to one of the sites with the novel, directly to a chapter where they mention it pretty close to the beginning of the chapter: Full Time Artist, chapter 812
(Although I recommend caution; this translation goes so far as to refer to "Journey to the West" as "Western Tourism". Admittedly this cracks me up, but, it can get rough!)

And here's a link to a youtube of the music video being referenced (that the MC and his friends in the novel recreated in their alternative universe where it didn't exist before): Marron 5 official music video posted by them to Youtube


Anyhow.

That's what I'm reading, and that's what has me super puzzled.

WHAT PUN?!

Lol I couldn’t even read that lol, that’s all def machine translate. XD now you’ve got me wanting to know what it actually is, gonna find some raws lol.

Looks like raws say the same thing. The only explanation I can give is that this is some alternative version of the song in an alternative world. In order to avoid obvious copyright, they mention some things and completely make up others in order to avoid ppl suing them for copyright. Like how some novels or mangas will say “Wcdonalds” instead of “McDonald’s” or the fact that Chinese novels might completely avoid saying “Japan” and call it by some other name. Lol. That’s the only explanation I can give. XD

Huh.

Weird and confusing.

Anyhow, thanks for digging into it for me, Hotarla, that was super kind of you!

Yeah well that’s what happens when you’ve got censorship and copyrights working against each other. Stuff turns out wonky and sideways lol. XD