"arare" (Arale) is a rice-cracker, and "norimaki" means "wrapped in seaweed".Mike D wrote:What about Arale and Dr. Frapp?
A "frappe" is like a milkshake (or simply IS a milkshake). There's also something specific called a "Greek Frappe".
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"arare" (Arale) is a rice-cracker, and "norimaki" means "wrapped in seaweed".Mike D wrote:What about Arale and Dr. Frapp?
And Mr. Subtitles saves the day.
Dayspring wrote:Actually they'd be puns on Journey to the West.*PINHEAD* wrote:I guess the characters who were taken straight out of Journey to the West, like Son Goku or Gyuu Mao.
True, but Toriyama uses naming people after stuff as a means of making a pun. Case in point: Bulma and her entire family.*PINHEAD* wrote:Dayspring wrote:Actually they'd be puns on Journey to the West.*PINHEAD* wrote:I guess the characters who were taken straight out of Journey to the West, like Son Goku or Gyuu Mao.
I guess...but still, it wouldn't be a pun because a pun is a play on words, not just copying a name.
Captain Christopher Pike wrote:The away team will consist of myself, Cadet Kirk, Mr. Sulu, and Ensign Olsen.
The Geeky Gentleman: For all your comics, movies, TV and other geeky needs.Freeza Heika wrote: for the land of the cool, and the home of the Appule
Even then, Gotenks still has Goten in full, and Vegetto is still close enough to Vegeta for us to know it's a pun on Vegetables. And since I agree with you fully for Gogeta, I'm going to cheat and point out that not only was movie 12 non-canon, but he wasn't named until the Daizenshuu came out!Eclipse wrote:So far, the only characters I've found without puns are Gotenks, Vegetto, and Gogeta. But they're fusions, so it's easy to excuse those...But there should be more.......but that aside, I think Toei covered all the puns pretty dang well, right there wtih Toriyama-Sensei.
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Was he? I haven't seen it in a while since somebody taped over my fansub of movies 12 and 13 a few months back.Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:His name is said quite a few times in the movie, mainly by Dai Kaiô and the others.Dayspring wrote:I'm going to cheat and point out that not only was movie 12 non-canon, but he wasn't named until the Daizenshuu came out!
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On the internet, nothing ever goes away.El_Diablo wrote:Not a correct variant, I don't think.Magica wrote:Hachihyaku is a variant(?) of Happyaku, or Eight-hundred.
What has 800 got to do with that character anyway?
To be precise: Ryozanpaku is the Japanese for Liang Shan Po, the place where most of the "Water Margin" [水滸傳, Shuihui Zhuan] took place.It's Hatchihyakku all right, and you're on the right track. It actually
comes from turning the numbers around to "Hyakuhachi" (108), which is the
number of the demon king of Ryozanpaku (Ryouzanpaku no Maou), or so I've
read.
is a rather 'harsh' naming for the rebels, but I guess they are demons in some sort, the 'demons' were released in the prologue of the story and reïncarnated in all the rebel chieftains...Ryouzanpaku no Maou
Gero = Gyro(sp?)Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:Indeed! Hahahahaha!Dayspring wrote:...But it's still non-canon! Mwahaha!
Anyway, some of the people I have been wondering about:
Ran Fan, Giran, Namu, Panpoot, Yajirobe, Zarbon, Dodoria, and Dr. Gero.
Captain Christopher Pike wrote:The away team will consist of myself, Cadet Kirk, Mr. Sulu, and Ensign Olsen.
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Ranfan: An abbreviation of the phrase, "Ranjerii to fandeeshon," or "Lingerie and Foundation." With all the sexual overtones that implies.Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:Anyway, some of the people I have been wondering about:
Ran Fan, Giran, Namu, Panpoot, Yajirobe, Zarbon, Dodoria, and Dr. Gero.
The way I heard it is that "Giran!" is that characteristic screech that Godzilla makes. Don't know if that's the case or not, but I do know firsthand that shogakusei get a kick out of watching big lumbering white gaijin stomping around yelling "gee-raaawwnn!"SaiyaJedi wrote: Giran: The best I can come up with is a 1960s film entitled "Gamera vs. Demon-Beast Giron" (I believe the character was called "Guillon" in the English adaptation). It would make sense, after all, for the character to have kaijuu movie origins...