Animé titles are so often weird

Stormtroper

I'm pretty sure he meant the "v".

They sound the same to me so whatever.

Forzare

^^

Chagen

"Voiced labiodental fricative" is the fancy name for the "v" sound of "valve", "vote", and "oven".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_fricative

DYRE

Hm... what about ヴ?  That's supposed to represent a "vu" sound, so of course ヴァ, ヴィ, ヴェ, and ヴォ should be "va", "vi", "ve" and "vo".  That said, the sound is usually represented by "ba", "bi", "bu", "be", or "bo" instead, so yeah, maybe it is because Japanese have a hard time pronouncing it.  Which would make sense, since it's not in any Japanese words.

And, in fact, "Evangelion" is written with that, instead of a "b" sound.  It's "エヴァンゲリオン".

Chagen

It may be that Japanese has a sound more like a mixture of "v" and "b". Like how the Japanese "r" is really a mix between "r" and "l".

Stormtroper

I think you pronounce them the same as the b-series, (and the ら”,　り”　etc. things as r). I could be wrong, though.

DYRE

Ah, okay.  Makes sense.  So it's just a way of clarifying how the word was originally pronounced/spelled, I guess.  That seems alright.

AXavierB

I hate anime with titles like... Mahou Shoujo SWEETY☆SWEETY Nya-Nya Popcorn Kernel Estrogen Rice Girls and shit like that.

DYRE

I assume that includes Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel ~Kyun Kyun☆Tokimeki Paradise!!~

That was the first show I could think of that actually had a title kinda like what you said.

All Nines

^ That actually exists?

DYRE

Yep.  It's airing this season.  I don't have the slightest idea what it's about, but I know I'm going to be watching it.

AXavierB

Damn, and my post was just hyperbole. I didn't expect an actual title like that. XD

All Nines

If it's as cutesy as it sounds, I'll put it on my To-Watch list, with a whole bunch of other stuff.

On the bright side, I'm watching Angel Beats faster than I had expected (the results of episode six are bullshit, but otherwise I like it a lot), so I can start K-On!! finally.

DYRE

I dunno anything about it other than that it's a magical girl show, and it's based on... slot machine characters.  There was an OVA a couple years ago, but I never watched it so I dunno what to expect.

Also Angel Beats! just gets more bullshit as it goes on.  Though... it's kind of balanced out by a lot of awesome parts later on too, from what I remember.

All Nines

I've only watched through episode seven, but I nearly stopped flat-out after episode six, it was that bad.

DYRE

Yeah, that was probably the worst episode as far as totally stupid plot anti-twists and shittacular pacing (and starting plot threads that end up going nowhere interesting) goes.  Later episodes have similar problems, but not nearly to the same extent.

Nyktos

Episode 6 was the Naoi one, right?

All Nines

Yes.

Nyktos

Yeah, that one moreso than most of the show screamed "this storyline was supposed to last three times as long".

All Nines

That's not even what bugged me so much. More the way the whole issue was handled next episode, to be honest. I probably should have said as much sooner, to be more correct.

Nyktos

Well, that's the thing. What happened to Naoi would probably have made a lot more sense if it hadn't been so sudden.

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Popcorn Kernel Estrogen Rice Girls

I kind of want to watch this...

Vorpy

Pretty Cure

Tokyo Mew Mew

Sweety Heart Mew Chan

DYRE

You don't have to watch it... >.>

Though I will be watching it because... um... I dunno.  Because mahou shoujo, I guess.

Noimporta

You do know that you don't have to watch them, right?

Slowninja

Vivi

My favorite anime titles happen to belong to my favorite anime.

FLCL. Air Gear.

Vivi

Popcorn Kernel Estrogen Rice Girls is about a normal, shy, highschool girl, that looks like middle schooler. She has a crush on a handsome classmate, but she is meek and gets taunted for it, despite being very cute. One day, while heating up some popcorn, the microwave explodes and she is visited by the Rice Girls. Fairies that were once human girls who have the power of Estrogen to fight evil monsters made of Testosterone.

She becomes a Rice Girl and whenever she eats popcorn, she turns into a very beautiful young girl with large breasts, ripping at her clothes. And she's just volunteered to be a movie critic for the school paper. Guess who's her cowriter? The handsome classmate.

The leader of the Rice Girls is a member of the Popcorn kernal alien race that takes the form of a cute little furry alien. He is actually recruiting Rice Girls so he can kill them all when they are powerful enough, and harness their estrogen, to prevent a growing black hole of testosterone from destroying the universe.

Vorpy

I should Liveblog Death Gaze, although it never existed now, because then imported animation would have been banned and Avatar TLA would have never been made.

glennmagusharvey

I want to watch Air Gear.

I have no current interest in watching FLCL.

Also, FLCL's title is weird.  It's Fuckin' LCL.

DYRE

I have no idea what Air Gear is, and the picture on Wikipedia doesn't make me want to watch it.

FLCL is good though.