To be fair Zouken is a guy who decided to reverse, and slightly alter his name when he moved from Russia to Japan.
His original name is weird to begin with, but there's certainly a reason for the name Matou Zouken to be a bit odd at least.
To be fair Zouken is a guy who decided to reverse, and slightly alter his name when he moved from Russia to Japan.
His original name is weird to begin with, but there's certainly a reason for the name Matou Zouken to be a bit odd at least.
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Your not serious are you?!
Well that and misconceptions about lines and translation flubs, but you get the point.
Yes, but while the Japanese names are chuuni and probably no one who knows Japanese well would ever want to subject their children to having such names, or having them written out in such a manner, I never got the feeling they were pure foreign gibberish.
Many of the non-Japanese names, on the other hand, do feel like gibberish randomly mashed together.
To use an example of foreign gibberish, imagine if I wrote a Japanese character and then said their name was Ching Chong Hyuk-Le or something.
Something is a little wrong there I'd say.
Fate, though perhaps an issue of all VNs(?), has a distinction of people being almost proud that they have never ever looked at the original source material. That they're proud of not doing research.
I remember reading a Fate crossover where the author tried to write both sides of the crossover without having even looked at either's source material. He literally tried to base what he knew, off of fanfiction.
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Yeah, a little wrong...I don't think any anime foreign name has been that outright racist, though please correct me if I'm wrong.
They used to write foreign name using Kanjis that make them may or may not sound dumb and rubberish in the first place so no surprise here. Back then the katakana characters were not created so they went with full Kanji that when put next to each other sounds (mostly in onyomi reading) kinda similar to the pronunciation of those foreign words, which the Chinese still use nowadays. Examples:
Nero is 尼祿 which is "nun" and "reward" put next to each other, another meaning for 尼 is slut btw.
Gilgamesh is 吉爾伽美什 which is "joy", "you", "nurse", "beautiful", "10" put next to each other.
Cu Chulainn is 庫 夫林 which is warehouse husband forest.
Medusa is 美杜莎 which is beautiful wood sedge.
Jeanne d'Arc is 貞德 which is righteous/chastity virtue (it actuall fits her, holy shit)
...and many more. Like if you just look up the names of non-JP and non-Chinese servants in Chinese then try to translate those kanjis you're in for a fun time.
With that history, I'm not surprised they made gibberish foreign names and think it sounds cool.
I would be joyful too if I had 10 beautiful nurses around.
I don't know if Nasu uses different kanji than usual for them, but I was under the impression that Rin, Shirou, Sakura, Shinji, Issei and Taiga were normal-enough names.
O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin.
Taiga isn’t normal, it’s a direct reference to Tiger
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Though maybe that’s not to odd a name
"Only in my company, will you not be a monster"
anywhere than here
Nah tiger is tora, it's actually 大河 (big river). It just sounds similar to タイガー (tiger) so you get the pun by the others.
Nun and Slut are homonyms?
That actually explains a bunch or LN characters.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
FF XIV: Walked to the End
Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
Have you read anything Narita has written ever
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
Get thee to a nunnery.
O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin.
Was waiting for someone to post this.
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Haven't really read Durarara or Baccano, nor really any of his other original works. Does he have black characters? Or is it the white characters that are named in a racist manner?
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Baccano does have quite a lot of wackily named characters (Jacuzzi Splot is a particularly good one) but I can't recall anything "racist". Durarara has a black guy who speaks broken English, but he's actually very intelligent (also Russian) and only uses that as an act to attract customers.
Yeah, I had an idea that Narita had plenty of wacky names, but not any outright "racist" ones.
I still don't get the point of the main story in Prisma Corps
Like what did any of that have to do with Prisma or the Nasuverse
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
That the magucal girl scenario in FGO?
The end did tie with 3rei with the whole "choosing between a friend or the world", still pretty weak though.
The only thing I remembered from that event is Blackbeard wearing a skirt...I think.
Please tell me Kiara is referred to as a 尼
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