Wait the Eternal's localized names are old English???
I thought they were just made up, I'm so sorry
And also, yeah, I totally also read the e in Seofon until just now, apparently
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YES. YES THEY ARE. i mean most of them are!
The justification was that since the Eternal's Japanese name came from all over the world it would be confusing for a non-Japanese player who could recognize the numbers (like Siete would be confusing for Italians who'd just see 7 around, Quatre would be confusing for French speakers who would just see 4 around, Six would be confusing for most Latin Language ect) so they went instead with a version that is no longer in use.... and focusing on English.
I personally am not fan of the change because i think the international aspect of the initial name was to show that the Eternals are watching all over the skies, all over the world basically, and limiting them to Old English just... well. is limiting.
But at least there was indeed some thoughts into it.
and yeah same. French and Japanese are both Syllabic languages so it's basically easier -ish for French ppl to read romanized Japanese because we do have like 90% of the same logic in prononciation and there's just a few sounds that are not similar, but at least the prononciation logic is consistant (*side eye at English*)-- and i was taught that you need to pronounce every syllabe the way they're written. So even when they are using foreign name i tend to use this logic and i always read it Sé-o-fo-n . But that's so wrong because English still is there to spite me.
But oh well the more we know!
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Today, I'll turn the spotlight on Jasper Storm. He's part of the Stone Dragon series.
I have a treasure hoard of visual resource books from Dover Publications that I've collected over the last 30 years or so. I'll often leaf through them before I start design work on new dragons, and I did so in this case, too. I caught sight of a Japanese kite that inspired this dragon's wings, and I worked the rest of the design elements (his face, his dorsal ridge, his belly scales) around the kite wings.
Prismacolor pencils and gold paint pen. Super-limited palette, too - I think there are three reds and black, and that's it.
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This!! This line is the reason I bought Kimetsu Gakuen vol 3 in Japanese :') There's a wordplay that I find simply delightful.
Inosuke tells Kanao that he's flying his kite (凧 tako) because the wind is strong. And then he asks her "y'know, a kite!!", but it's written in katakana (タコ) so it leaves the reader up to interpreting it however they want.
But the full sentence is "y'know, a kite! The kind you can't eat!!" which... didn't translate well into english without context :') Tako is also 蛸, octopus! The tako from takoyaki!
Look at him knowing words, and assuming other people don't!! Food is clearly his main motivation in many ways, so I wouldn't be surprised that he knows a LOT of food names, and associates everything else to some food he knows. Yay for learning!
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Here is a large calendar/poster by an unknown publisher.
The graphic is a reproduction of Mr. Tezio Hashimoto's kite.
In context, it was the year 2000.
I think the image is fitting, in that it is a battle between a great samurai warrior and a demon... Perhaps this is the Japanese way to fend of the Millennium curse?
Tezio Hashimoto (1904-1991).
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