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Dark Fury Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

To fill up your frame

This is taken from a fan translation of Japanese anime series Hataraki Man.

Hiroko (a journalist) is going to the funeral of businessman Mimura, the man she was going to interview. She is thinking to herself:

"A person who lived life by filling up his frame. Mimura-san, I found a new question to ask you. When the frame is filled up, is that when a person dies?"

Please tell me what the phrase means.

  

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Dark Fury Please tell me what the phrase means. It has been coined for this particular anime series. A 'frame' is one of the rectangular boxes in which the successive episodes of an anime or cartoon story are drawn.

— Mister Micawber

  • Dark Fury Please tell me what the phrase means.
  • It has been coined for this particular anime series.
  • A 'frame' is one of the rectangular boxes in which the successive episodes of an anime or cartoon story are drawn.
  • Presumably, 'filling up one's frame' here is a metaphor for living a full or active life.
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Dark FuryPlease tell me what the phrase means.

It has been coined for this particular anime series. A 'frame' is one of the rectangular boxes in which the successive episodes of an anime or cartoon story are drawn. Presumably, 'filling up one's frame' here is a metaphor for living a full or active life.

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You mean it's like one of those frames you can see on the pages of manga-books? Even though, why "a full or active life"? I would've though of something like "to make the headlines".

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Dark FuryYou mean it's like one of those frames you can see on the pages of manga-books?

Right.

Dark Fury Even though, why "a full or active life"? I would've though of something like "to make the headlines".

I have just given a likely surmise. I have not read the book. However, your idea suggests that the dead m

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Thank you for your replies. It seems like it's a bit harder than I thought. it's really hard to tell how good or bad he is. There wasn't said much about him.

Literally, "filling up a frame" is like adding things/details to the frame so that it was full of various objects, no? I think my problem is that I simply can't get the literal meaning of the phrase.


Just in case, this

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In that case, it is the meaning I gave you earlier: he led a full life; he accomplished many things in many fields. Do not worry about the literal meaning, because too careful analysis of a metaphor can ruin its accuracy and its effect.

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Thank you very much, Mister Micawber!

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