Shirtless anime boy holding fish with subtitle 'I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish.'

I'll Now Proceed To Pleasure Myself With This Fish

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Published October 26, 2026

I'll Now Proceed To Pleasure Myself With This Fish refers to a mistranslated anime fansub screenshot of Suzaku from Code Geass holding a fish, where the English subtitle turned his cry of 'gotcha!' into a crude declaration3. Blogger fupper surfaced the screenshot in a November 2008 roundup of botched fan subtitles, and by 2017 posters were pasting the line onto Vaporeon and other characters on Know Your Meme and Twitter.

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Overview

The joke works entirely on the gap between what Suzaku actually says in Code Geass, a plain 'gotcha!' in the English dub, and what the fansub wrote underneath him3. Reposters pair the Suzaku screencap with other characters, animals or objects, or they lift just the subtitle text and paste it over an unrelated image to land the same shock punchline1.

Variants tend to replace the fish specifically. A common approach is to put a cute or fish-adjacent character in Suzaku's hands, like Vaporeon or the virtual YouTuber Finana, so the 'pleasure fish' line reads as even more unhinged when the fish is clearly a person or a Pokemon6. Suzaku's screenshot still circulates as a reaction image on Twitter and anime boards whenever someone poses with a fish-shaped anything.

Origin & Background

Platform
Fansub screenshot / globalwhelming.com (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2008

Episode 19 of Code Geass, 'Island of the Gods,' aired in Japan on March 2nd, 2007 and in North America on September 7th, 20083. In the scene, Suzaku washes up on an island and grabs a fish with his bare hands, saying 'gotcha!' in the official English dub3. A fan translation of the same moment captioned it as 'I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish,' and that single screenshot became the viral artifact.

On November 27th, 2008, writer fupper posted a collection titled 'PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs' Translations goes WRONG!' at globalwhelming.com, lining up absurd fan-subtitle screenshots that included the Suzaku image1. That post is the earliest known public venue where the screenshot circulated outside its original fansub release.

How It Spread

Reposts of fupper's roundup kept the Suzaku screenshot moving. On October 7th, 2009, the South African blog onelargeprawn.co.za collected it in a post called 'When Anime Fansubs Go Wrong,' with commenters calling 'pleasure fish' their favorite line of the bunch2.

Format edits started appearing in the late 2010s. On January 13th, 2017, Know Your Meme user Lucky Absol uploaded a Vaporeon image with the subtitle treatment, originally sourced from 4chan3. On June 1st, 2019, @ironiclark replaced the fish with a Granblue Fantasy character, earning around 800 likes and 690 retweets4. On July 26th of the same year, iFunny poster IAmPride ran a Vaporeon version with the subtitle changed to 'I'll now pleasure myself with this human'7.

Twitter kept running fish-swap variants into the 2020s. On December 18th, 2020, @zer0_irl posted a carp edit that drew over 12,800 likes and 2,500 retweets5. On August 16th, 2021, @77_viivii put virtual YouTuber Finana in Suzaku's hands, bringing in over 4,400 likes and 680 retweets6.

Timeline

2007-03-02

Code Geass episode 19, 'Island of the Gods,' airs in Japan with the Suzaku fish scene.

2009-10-07

Onelargeprawn.co.za reposts the collection, calling out 'pleasure fish' in the comments.

2017-01-13

KYM user Lucky Absol uploads a Vaporeon version of the format.

2020-12-18

@zer0_irl's carp edit on Twitter clears 12,800 likes.

2021-08-16

@77_viivii swaps the fish for virtual YouTuber Finana.

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