Splatoon 2 – Japanese Splatfest #8 announced
The next Japanese Splatfest in Splatoon 2 will take place next weekend, Nintendo has announced.
This event pits flowers up against dangos (a Japanese dumpling). frozenpandaman, who knows this much better than myself, explains the significance:
This theme is a reference to the Japanese phrase hana yori dango, meaning “dumplings over flowers,” referring to the person who prefers function over decoration, substance over form, or value over appearance. So the question is asking, which do you prefer, or which do you choose? The type of person who chooses things like hana, flowers, or dango, or dumplings?
The idiom stems from the type of people who attend hanami, flower viewing (e.g. sakura/cherry blossoms or ume/plum blossoms), who immediately go to purchase food from vendors instead of gazing at the flowers.
The new Japanese Splatfest kicks off on March 3 at 3 PM, lasting for a full day per usual. We’ll post the results here soon after it ends.
