Kamen Rider OOO - Talk Up!

[TakaComics]

Maybe Japanese shows work in English (and for that matter foreign words in general, as Ankh isn't really English) because they want to teach kids katakana? It's hard to learn a language, even your native language, when it's not being used. You don't need educational programming to teach.

 

[PSI Ground]

Guys if you want some guy on /m/ made subs.


Sub .txt or whatever
http://www.mediafire.com/?1y2dl8txb4fjbaw

Raw:
http://www.multiupload.com/AQ3MGSKREC

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

http://henshinjustice.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57998 Would be DecaEnd.

 

[dchoc]

Based on when the Greeeds awaken, each of them have 7 medals, and they need to have 9 to get themselves completed and not disintegrate...

 

[Lynxara]

Maybe Japanese shows work in English (and for that matter foreign words in general, as Ankh isn't really English) because they want to teach kids katakana?

Modern Japanese uses a ton of loan words from other languages on a day-to-day basis, mostly imported during the postwar period. Japanese people tend to think using foreign words for a concept sounds cool. By the same token, Japanese audiences tend to think foreign-sounded names in pulp entertainment like anime, tokusatsu, games, and manga just sound cool. So there'd be no reason not to use foreign-sounding names and concepts in kids' shows, the kids would be expected to find it cool-sounding.

 

[KouAidou]

The Japanese as a culture also have a historical love of puns and wordplay. Adding English (and other languages) often adds another dimension to the 'game', so to speak.

 

[big_j_ny]

Modern Japanese uses a ton of loan words from other languages on a day-to-day basis, mostly imported during the postwar period. Japanese people tend to think using foreign words for a concept sounds cool. By the same token, Japanese audiences tend to think foreign-sounded names in pulp entertainment like anime, tokusatsu, games, and manga just sound cool. So there'd be no reason not to use foreign-sounding names and concepts in kids' shows, the kids would be expected to find it cool-sounding.

Lynx got a point.........since it's the same with the American Kamen Rider fandom that think its cool to say the foreign word "Henshin" over whatever the **** the American production crew decides to use as the transformation word for an American adaptation toku series (especially a Kamen Rider adaptation).

So it works both ways

 

[Midori Ken]

Modern Japanese uses a ton of loan words from other languages on a day-to-day basis, mostly imported during the postwar period. Japanese people tend to think using foreign words for a concept sounds cool. By the same token, Japanese audiences tend to think foreign-sounded names in pulp entertainment like anime, tokusatsu, games, and manga just sound cool. So there'd be no reason not to use foreign-sounding names and concepts in kids' shows, the kids would be expected to find it cool-sounding.

I'd also like to add that it's a lot easier to make stupid puns when you have a crazy amount of loan words to work with.

While trying to figure out what the deuce Yummy is supposed to mean, my best guess is that it is a pun on Yami.

 

[Lynxara]

I think Yummy is a reference to the endless hunger of the Gaki. We also see the monster uncontrollably eating things in the first episode. I think this is a rare case of an English word's connotation being used at face value.

I can't really see a pun with "yami" happening. Yami just means "darkness" and as far as I understand its connotations in Japanese, it doesn't actually refer to anything that'd be specific to the Yummy.

I kind of suspect that to us native English speakers, Yummy sounds tremendously stupid as a monster name. I think we'd much rather it be Yami, which is a Japanese word that tends to sound especially cool to Western fans. But I think arguing that OOO is using a yami = yummy pun is just wishful thinking until there's some more evidence in its favor to cite from the show.

 

[KamenRiderSymbioto]

Lynx got a point.........since it's the same with the American Kamen Rider fandom that think its cool to say the foreign word "Henshin" over whatever the **** the American production crew decides to use as the transformation word for an American adaptation toku series (especially a Kamen Rider adaptation).

So it works both ways

We saw when the riders on Dragon Knight said Henshin and thats way better then saying Kamen Rider