(CR) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (Xebec)

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

A slight difference here: The English word King tend to have a specific male gender.

But we're talking about a character in a Japanese series, and they've already shown with Nyarko and Kuuko and Atko and the Cthulhu woman whose name I can't remember that they don't care what gender the cosmic horrors originally were. That's why saying that Hastur's character in this anime will have to be male because it happened to be given a male title in the mythos is foolish. Its gender will be whatever the series' creator wants it to be. The title of "king" is irrelevant.

[Kyuu]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

A slight difference here: The English word King tend to have a specific male gender.

Tell that to Saber.

[Myssa Rei]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

How do you define "girl?" I'm willing to bet that a complete anatomical study of her current form would find her to be completely a human female, inside and out. Perhaps more importantly, she is treated like one and acts like one in the series.

I'm willing to do so myself, but there's this voice whispering at the back of my mind telling me to NOT take anything a thing named Nyarlathothep at face value. :P

[Sumeragi]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

But we're talking about a character in a Japanese series, and they've already shown with Nyarko and Kuuko and Atko and the Cthulhu woman whose name I can't remember that they don't care what gender the cosmic horrors originally were. That's why saying that Hastur's character in this anime will have to be male because it happened to be given a male title in the mythos is foolish. Its gender will be whatever the series' creator wants it to be. The title of "king" is irrelevant.

That's a separate discussion from the use of titles in non-English-speaking countries.

Originally Posted by Kyuu

Tell that to Saber.

Saber's my pet, so your argument is irrelevant.

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by Myssa Rei

I'm willing to do so myself, but there's this voice whispering at the back of my mind telling me to NOT take anything a thing named Nyarlathothep at face value. :P

i would be careful of those whispers, you never know who is doing the whispering.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

That's a separate discussion from the use of titles in non-English-speaking countries.

The use of titles in non-English countries is not what was being argued. The original statement was that the character of Hastur in the anime had to be male because that creature was, at one point in the mythos, referred to as "king." That is the point we are arguing is foolish. Attempting to sidetrack us on to a different discussion altogether will not change the inherent foolishness of that statement.

[Westlo]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

PS Hideyoshi is a guy

Bu-bu-bu-but waifu generator said she was my waifu!

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Westlo

Bu-bu-bu-but waifu generator said she was my waifu!

Then you may have a bigger issue to worry about.

[Scarletknive]

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

That's a separate discussion from the use of titles in non-English-speaking countries.



Saber's my pet, so your argument is irrelevant.

Saber is your pet but it is up to her to decide whether or not to follow you, objection overruled.

Episode 2 when?

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Scarletknive

Episode 2 when?

This airs on Mondays.

[Myssa Rei]

You know, somehow hearing Norio Wakamoto do his thing... Fits. I always imagined Nyarly to be a large ham in some of its incarnations anyway.

Sanity save... FAILED DUE TO AWESOME.

[FlareKnight]

All I can say is that I've never felt such sympathy for a "monster" getting beaten like I did in the first episode here . I mean damn some brutal attacks delivered there.

[Sheba]

I have found something else

Spoiler for The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way, The All-in-One and the One-in-All. In short: Yog-Sothoth:

Just kidding. But hey. She could qualify.

[Malkuth]

Adorable character designs, and very funny first episode. It's been quite some time since Mythos worked as a naming basis, I can only recall Demonbane

Also nice reference to the insanity check from the table-top

Originally Posted by Panzerklein

Not really, all ruler titles can be used for female if they want.

Example:
- Jadwiga, crowed herself as "Hedvig Rex Poloniae" ("Hedwig, King of Poland"), not "Hedvig Regina Poloniae" ("Hedwig, Queen of Poland").
- Anna Jagiellon - King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania,
- Maria Theresa of Austria, while she was able to be crowned as Empress or Queen of most of her lands, she is crowed as King of Hungary in 1741.
- Irene of Athens, she often called herself "Basileus" (Emperor), rather than "Basilissa" (Empress).
- Lý Chiêu Hoàng, alway is claimed as Emperor of Dai Viet (Viet Nam) rather than Empress.
v.v....

Originally Posted by Sumeragi

A slight difference here: The English word King tend to have a specific male gender.

Polish, Lithuanian, German (using Latin), and Byzantine Greek examples above are the same as English, there are distinct words separating male from female kings, emperors, etc.

Also the Japanese when using foreign words they occasionally ignore the gender for obvious reasons.

[U<3Anime]

Originally Posted by Myssa Rei

You know, somehow hearing Norio Wakamoto do his thing... Fits. I always imagined Nyarly to be a large ham in some of its incarnations anyway.

Sanity save... FAILED DUE TO AWESOME.

........a gift from our god.


THANKYOU GOD!!!

[Silvance]

Originally Posted by Myssa Rei

You know, somehow hearing Norio Wakamoto do his thing... Fits. I always imagined Nyarly to be a large ham in some of its incarnations anyway.

Sanity save... FAILED DUE TO AWESOME.

Sweet mother of God... That's awesome. He actually did that? What a cool guy. XD

This made my day, thanks for sharing the video.

[MisaoFan]

While I still think Hasta as a reverse trap, I wonder how anyone would translate this Japanese quote.

Spoiler for Hasta's actual gender:

小柄な美少女のようにしか見えないが、性別は♂。Pretty much confirmed to be a feminine boy but I'm not sure.

Everytime I look at feminine guys like Hasta, it's hard to identify which gender he is, especially if he is voiced by a girl (there's some exceptions in it). If he is voiced by a male, I could easily classifies him as a male. Since Rie Kugimiya is pretty much typecasted as tsundere, her male roles only contain a little amount for her. The only reverse trap (for the moment) she ever voiced is Kaoru from Ladies Versus Butlers!, which is also animated by Xebec.

[Marina2]

First ep. is totally LOL

I guess I got one more show to ad in my list for this season.

Love Nyaruko and all of her anime references. ^^

[ThereminVox]

Originally Posted by Myssa Rei

You know, somehow hearing Norio Wakamoto do his thing... Fits. I always imagined Nyarly to be a large ham in some of its incarnations anyway.

Sanity save... FAILED DUE TO AWESOME.

While I feel it is important not to succumb to hyperbole, I think it's safe to say that this is the greatest anything to happened anywhere, ever.

[ID555]

It's incredibly hilarious having an image of the VA (from watching the Working! specials) and hearing her say things like 'I'm so embarrassed i might just get pregnant'