

5:54 Zapp said _"What's he doin', playing it backwards in fast-forward?"_ You
could replace _fast-forward_ with _double-time_ according to another set of
subtitles. He was referring to the vampire, but the vampire wasn't even doing
anything. What exactly does it mean?


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Kekkai Sensen ep9, meaning of "playing it backwards in double-time/fast-forward"?


The vampire they were fighting was regenerating (I guess "playing it
backwards" as in "reverting to a prior, unhurt state") quickly ("in double-
time").

He had previously been severely injured by crashing into the skyscraper and by
Klaus's attack. Note that about 30 seconds prior (in video time, not
necessarily in-show time), he looked like this:

[![injured
vampire](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DLOHj.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DLOHj.jpg)

I think there's a kernel of a pun in here. Zapp says 逆再生の早回しかよ _gyaku-saisei
no hayamawashi ka yo_. The word 再生 _saisei_ has two meanings. One, "play" as
in "to play a video". Two, "regenerate" or "come back to life". The prefixal 逆
_gyaku_ means "the opposite of" or "reversed". So whereas a regular creature
regenerating might be "coming back to life", an eldritch undead abomination
like a vampire might instead be "coming back to life backwards" - _gyaku-
saisei_ , which is also the word you'd use for "to play a video backwards".

I'm kind of reaching here, though; I'm not sure whether that was the
intention.


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