Beerus is actually more related to a virus than to beer if you ask me.Vegard Aune wrote:I disagree. "Beers" is perfectly logical, by the reasoning that the originally intended "virus"-pun is completely irrelevant to the character we ultimately got. He was originally named Birus specifically because he was meant to have some virus-related traits. This got completely omitted from the final story. So why does the fact that he was initially meant to be named Birus even matter at this point? I mean, if one wants to acknowledge that then fine, but I don't think calling him Beers makes any less sense than using Beerus. It all just comes down to whether one wants to preserve the originally intended virus-pun, Toriyama's misinterpreted beer-pun that actually makes far more sense in the final script, or both. I would argue that the first option is indeed silly because again, irrelevant to the final story, but I consider both Beerus and Beers to be equally valid.Kakarot88 wrote:For goodness sake they SAY Beerus. BEER-US, it makes 0 sense to call him Bills or even Beers. Plus the pun is preserved with Beerus.
Something dreadful that's sleeping and that you might not even notice until it's woken up / activated and spreads destruction.
So I'd accept anything that takes his truly viral and "supreme danger to avoid" nature into account, whether it's only about the obvious virus part or it's both the virus part and Toriyama's mistake about alcohol (which is the best solution since that way, the name encompasses both his "ultimate sleeping danger" nature and his duo with Whis).
But I'm afraid most translators, because of Whis, will immediately conclude "oh, he must go with Whis, this is a pun on beer to go with whisky" and not think further, when the virus thing is so obvious and so symbolic of the character's nature that I don't even know how it was possible to interpret it any other way when reading "Birusu". If it was "beer", there wouldn't be a mandatory "s" anyway and it would likely have been "biru", right? Seeing "biru", I would have thought of "beer". But seeing "birusu", it always and immediately seemed obvious to me that it was "virus" (pronounced "veerus" unlike the English pronunciation and more like the word in other countries) and nothing else, a virus being a god of destruction on computers.
I say congrats to the official English version for having likely noticed all that there is to his name (did they read Kanzenshuu?!) and giving him the perfect "Beerus" name to satisfy every side: the way his name was created and represents him so well, AND the author's cute goofy mistake leaving a mark.
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