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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #420 on: May 31, 2012, 09:37:56 PM »
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Point two: most kanji have two readings. Many kanji are homophonous without really having anything to do with the other. Ha, for instance, can be the reading for wave (nami), break (kowasu), blade (yaiba);
Its one of the reason you see that particular kanji used a lot in older anime finishing moves(newer ones find it a bit too hammy I think, more or less because it was overused before). Also the root of the Wave Motion Gun, due to the other meanings.

If its similar to the chinese reading, it actually means the peak of a wave.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #421 on: May 31, 2012, 09:46:54 PM »
Why spoilers?
Here's another example. By using the following kanji:

雷唾蛙

Which are literally Thunder, Spittle, and Frog, you can write a totally cool technique name... that reads RAIDAA (Rider)

EDIT: Arabs don't write in ideograms, therefore your point about Alladdin is fallacious. (By the by, that's how you spell it if you romanize Alladdin. It literally means "the thief". In the original tale, the character had no name, he was merely referred to as "the thief".)
Still looking for an excuse to use a ninja named Gu who wields a glowing "thunder blade", just so they can talk about the Light of their Raitou, and introduce themselves as "Raitou-nin Gu". :p

Also, I'd heard that Aladdin was originally something like Allah-Al-Din.

That sounds unlikely mostly due to the Allah at the beginning, but I suppose crazier things have happened in regards to names (I'd heard this one because supposedly Laddin = rogue, as in the D&D class, with the connotation of thief, and Al is an article, but I haven't actually studied Arabic).

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Point two: most kanji have two readings. Many kanji are homophonous without really having anything to do with the other. Ha, for instance, can be the reading for wave (nami), break (kowasu), blade (yaiba);
Its one of the reason you see that particular kanji used a lot in older anime finishing moves(newer ones find it a bit too hammy I think, more or less because it was overused before). Also the root of the Wave Motion Gun, due to the other meanings.

If its similar to the chinese reading, it actually means the peak of a wave.

It's also frequently used in conjunction with retsu (fierce) to create the reading of Reppa. So Shouryu-reppa = Rising Dragon Fierce Wave. Then again, retsu is also the reading for the kanji meaning consecutive.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #422 on: June 16, 2012, 06:12:39 PM »
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #423 on: June 18, 2012, 03:24:54 PM »
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #425 on: June 18, 2012, 10:07:15 PM »
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And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #428 on: June 19, 2012, 12:42:28 PM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #430 on: June 19, 2012, 01:25:45 PM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #433 on: June 19, 2012, 01:58:24 PM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #435 on: June 19, 2012, 02:09:55 PM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #436 on: June 19, 2012, 03:26:28 PM »
Well, all this talk  ended me making want to catch up with Fate/Stay Zero. Just watched episodes 15-17.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #437 on: June 19, 2012, 04:21:07 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #438 on: June 19, 2012, 04:41:40 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #439 on: June 19, 2012, 05:01:09 PM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.