The Hinawa Daidai DJ Juu AKA "DJ Gun"

[ClimaxHeroDen-O]

now I've brought this up in the Gaim merch thread, but it seems better to talk about it in a separate thread, and in a non-aggressive manner.

as most of you should probably know, Kachidoki Arms' weapon is called the Hinawa Daidai DJ Juu, but just about every English-speaking fansite calls it the "DJ Gun", which was the initial name told from the scan before it was known what the kanji read as.

now, I get that people say it that way to be brief about it, but I pose a question that was said before in the merch thread: why not call it the "DJ Juu" instead of the "DJ Gun"?

the name uses the kanji for gun (銃) instead of katakana (ガン), and I don't see most people calling the Sengoku Driver the "Warring States Driver" or the Musou Saber the "Unrivaled Saber"(except AesirSubs, but their translator is infamous for translating things that generally shouldn't be) so why translate the kanji of Kachidoki Arms' weapon?

note: this is me just stating my own thoughts, not trying to force them on anybody

 

[KamenRiderBritannia]

i think youre making too big of a deal about this tbh

 

[Dark Kabuto]

i think youre making too big of a deal about this tbh

I agree.

It looks like a gun, it functions like a gun, so it's a gun. Most people wouldn't even know what the hell "Juu" even means.

 

[FlameDragon]

i think for fan-naming sake, just DJ Juu would sound at least more better than DJ Gun, but there is no denying it's the Hinawa DaiDai DJ Juu. hell, kamen rider wiki is calling ryugen's weapon by it's original japanese name(Budou RyuHou), so why not the DJ Juu?

also it's not the manner of what the logic of the weapon is, it's the logic of what you guys are naming the weapon. i don't care if it's a DJ Turntable on a Gun or not, if it has a name, you can't disregard what it's meant to be called(unless you are translating the tv show or just listing what the name means).

now i'm not forcing you guys should say DJ Juu instead of DJ Gun but i'm just putting common sense into mind.

 

[Shynilyte]

It's just the regular word for "gun".

 

[LaZerwolfX]

RE-POSTED FROM THE TOY THREAD
Except that you can clearly see that its a "matchlock-esque" gun and you can clearly see the Orange. It doesn't have to be spelled out for you by saying the whole name. Going by that logic every time someone wants to refer to the Rocket Dagger from Go-Onger they should refer to it as the "Switch Jet Sword Rocket Dagger"? Thats absurd.
While I will agree that some of the translated terms being used in Gaim are disgusting; Marika, Ornac, and Prof. Wärring come to mind. This is certainly not a big deal and DJ Gun is a perfectly reasonable name for the weapon.

 

[ClimaxHeroDen-O]

RE-POSTED FROM THE TOY THREAD
Except that you can clearly see that its a "matchlock-esque" gun and you can clearly see the Orange. It doesn't have to be spelled out for you by saying the whole name. Going by that logic every time someone wants to refer to the Rocket Dagger from Go-Onger they should refer to it as the "Switch Jet Sword Rocket Dagger"? Thats absurd.
While I will agree that some of the translated terms being used in Gaim are disgusting; Marika, Ornac, and Prof. Wärring come to mind. This is certainly not a big deal and DJ Gun is a perfectly reasonable name for the weapon.

not quite. the toy's full name is "Scratch Souten DX Hinawa Daidai DJ Juu" so Hinawa Daidai DJ Juu is the weapon's proper name, and Scratch Souten is the toy-only title

 

[FlameDragon]

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Hinawa_Daidai_DJ_Ju

The Kamen Rider Wiki has at least changed the article of the DJ Gun into the Hinawa Daidai DJ Ju. so at the very least they know it's the corrected name.

 

[AzraelNewtype]

I don't see most people calling the Sengoku Driver the "Warring States Driver"

You don't see this because it's actively wrong; it's 戦極 not 戦国. But this is irrelevant since your argument is about being completely accurate I guess.

 

[Dark Kabuto]

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Hinawa_Daidai_DJ_Ju

The Kamen Rider Wiki has at least changed the article of the DJ Gun into the Hinawa Daidai DJ Ju. so at the very least they know it's the corrected name.

When is Wiki ever a reliable source? Anyone could've went in and edited that.