Weebshit Thread

[ebin namefag]

"X no Bōken" means "[The] adventure(s) of X"

Clamp never finished X no Boken.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I's a bit too problematic having an earthquake-centric manga after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, and they probably didn't want to revive it out of fear of having another Minky Momo (whose finales and reruns have a habit of coinciding with earthquakes; the Kami must hate the original Truck-kun).

(One rerun even ended with the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Coincidence? I think not.)

[Newhalf]

What I think of when I hear "boken" :

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Anyway, these co-productions are the other reason why Japan is our best ally forever!

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I personally prefer "bokan" over "boken".

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[Gendo's Ocular Dickhole]

I reminisce the days of Tatsunoko's based quality.

[Kugelfisch]

Piccolino still throws me off. The Italian word for "little one" is just odd in a jap title.

[Liar Revealed]

I was wondering if it was some legal thing, like it hadn't yet fallen into public domain yet? Because there's another not-Pinocchio anime "Oakwood Mokku"

[McGinnis]

I'm thinking it's more a 'Don't piss off Disney' thing

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

That might just be it. They probably assumed that Disney had dibs on the title, and then pulled some Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel / Shazam kind of autism where they used the character, but made sure to not advertize the product with the character's name.
All of the baka gaijin dubs certainly had no trouble calling it as it is.

I was wondering if it was some legal thing, like it hadn't yet fallen into public domain yet? Because there's another not-Pinocchio anime "Oakwood Mokku"

It's not not-Pinocchio. It is Pinocchio.

[McGinnis]

Well, with Disney it's a 'better safe than sorry' kind of thing. Disney don't have to be legally in the right (and they aren't, Pinocchio was public domain when they made it) to sue you for all your worth