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Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 9: movie edition!

Yeah, it's been two months, how about that? I think I might be getting tired of just doing shows for these quizzes, so I'm shaking things up by doing some anime movies this time, two of which I haven't actually seen myself yet.

As always, the previous parts have discussions and glosses of other anime that might help you. The plot descriptions in these quizzes are based on those from Anilist, so you can use that site for reference. You can also use things like title structure, character names, and occasional numerals to help you figure things out, or you can ask me for hints like the meanings of individual words, and I may or may not provide. I'll also be providing a few hints off the bat. Edit: I got rid of the popularity hint because I think it makes it too easy.

When you make a guess, please spoiler your answer. If you're right, I will reply with the Evangelion congratulations emoji and provide glosses. And remember that just because someone else solved a title first doesn't mean you can't have a go for yourself!

Also, I can't guarantee that every translation here is perfect, because despite inventing this language, it is still not my first language. But at least this time I wrote the glosses beforehand, so I at least couldn't have made any of the mistakes that I only tend to catch when glossing... But anyways.

NOTE!

I have made a few changes to the conlang since the previous part, including:

  • partially splitting the reflexive and passive constructions.
  • partially splitting the words for "one", "only", and "lonely".

Some hints not specific to any title

The lengths of names may be of use but don't expect them to perfectly match their lengths in Hepburn/English. Likewise initials might not always match the Hepburn.

Names are inflected with a masculine suffix -a and a feminine suffix -e, but to prevent hiatus these go through the following sound changes:

① {a(ː).V → Vː|V = any vowel} — as in *Sakura-e → Sakuré

② {O(ː).V → ø(ː)|O = round vowel} — as in *Tomoyo-e → Tomoyǒ, or *Kló-a → Klő

③ {E(ː).V → jV(ː)|E = unrounded front vowel} — as in *Miyuki-a → Miyukya

The sound change for front vowels may trigger further sound changes:

{Tj → TT|T = alveolar consonant} — but note that alveolar geminates are realized as palatals.

ji(ː) → iː

In that order.

Also note that proper nouns occasionally do not refer to characters, in which case the gender that the name is inflected as may not be of much use to you.

It has by this point been cracked or revealed that...

  1. -t́ forms verbs, -ćk forms active participles, and -j́esk forms passive participles.
  2. -v is a suffix used to form the construct state. This means that the following word modifies or possesses the previous.

And with that out of the way, let's-a go!

1: Žźe, yaLuńa u yaNereýa

Cǒ ňa xuncka, u Žźe ňa xisaňev dare tot́ev ane neňe yǒynevše, na fe, šo še ran beňkede. Benev sidokaske ňa haymenev Žźe kot́ot́e še čay sule sint́ede Cǒ he, yéyniv 2 ńedesint́e so yamoḱav anska. Yetárećtev yéynivfi 2 ňa yaroyavfa sinódmožet́ey e.

This is a romance movie from the 2020s, according to Wikipedia.

2: YeLőv Suhe^[Solved by Meltyheartlove.]

Xi šejonzet́e yekruňtevše he, yeranóćke N. Śǒ sǒyrinet́ede yagiriḿav yaya, I. Śá. Śá xit́a u xit́a sǒyrinet́a, u yaya nǒnt́ade ša mpe. Śǒ jonzet́ev moḱske yekruňtevše, u Śá dum bac̋ana šahkade'y. Vanska u rekyercka, Śáv xitruňećka net́a Śǒ va čapaset́a.

This is a drama movie from the 2010s, according to Wikipedia.

3: SǑNSINT́^[Solved by AernaLingus.]

H. Aǒ ňa 4-žareyne snit́i maňga-luyeýa va yedaṕoĺev yekruňtevše, u na yereňkivše šehkede yegiriḿev yeyevše. No sokruňeynevše, Kǒ, naysulet́i kot́e kruňta — na kon? Kav anskagunska he, Aǒ sulet́ede'y, šo hožev Kǒ ňa maňga-luyevde kot́i yadaṕoĺa u...

This is a coming-of-age movie from the 2020s, according to Wikipedia.

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