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agila61
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AFAIR, Marimite often went about that pace, even though it obviously meant that some things from the light novels did not make it into the anime, or in a more abbreviated form. |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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Sometimes Kujo is a little too stupid. Like, the part in episode 6 when Victorique is trying to sneak out and he asks her if she's going to the dentist about a toothache from eating all that candy. I thought that was a hilarious joke, until I realized he wasn't being facetious.
The boy doesn't need to be as dumb as a sack of potatoes. |
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HaruhiToy
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I thought that women liked them that way. Actually, the same sort of transformation often to Dr. Watson happened in various performance-art variations of Sherlock Holmes. I am thinking in particular of the one with Basil Rathbone as Holmes. It was clear that Doyle in the novels intended Watson to be an intelligent, vital thinker who simply did not have the mindset that Holmes did, but the movies always turned him into sort of a clown. I am not sure why. Is the same thing happening here? |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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I think it is merely a case of knowing the word ゴシック in katakana (the same way a westerner might know words like sushi, karaoke and sayonara without knowing how to write them in Japanese) and whoever was responsible to the cover of the first novel romanising it without realising or just without checking on the correct English spelling (witness Chrno Crusade). For a similar example, there was once a tale on the Engrish.com site about the manual for some telephone equipment that had been translated from Japanese to English by someone who was clearly not a native English speaker. For one particular phrase they had decided to express hanging up the phone as "hook the phone", however they clearly didn't actually know how to spell "hook" ( katakana フック) in English; フ could be either "fu" or "hu" and they decided to go with the former, then chose to render ック as "ck" and I think you can see where I'm going with this... |
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Kalessin
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I haven't read the books yet (though they arrived the other day), so I don't know how stupid Kujo is in the books, but he's defintely a complete moron in the show. True, having him as smart as Victorique would have been difficult to make work, but they definitely went too far in making him an idiot. That's pretty much my biggest complaint about the series actually. And that example with the dentist is a prime one. There's no way that anyone would be that stupid (except perhaps if they literally have brain damage or some disease that makes them mentall retarted). And if there is such a way, I don't want to know about it, because that's just plain sad. So, I definitely like this series, but Kujou is too much of an idiot. Overall, I have to say that Carl's review is spot on though. |
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_Emi_
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I think you might like this strip then. Kujo being a moron turns me off of watching the show. It makes it seem to me that Victorique isn't so much intelligent as the people around her are just stupid. A response from someone who has read the books on whether not not Kujo is as dumb in the books would be appreciated. |
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