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'Louche' in French, is female, so it'd be 'Lalouche'. However, the second translation is more accurate but there's actually more to its meaning. When you say 'he's louche' about someone, it means that 'he's suspicious/dubious'. In other words, 'Lelouche Lamperouge' can be more or less translated by 'The-suspicious Red-lamp' - but even then, it should be 'Lalouche Lamperouge' since 'lampe' is female, so it's 'la' instead of 'le'. But whatever. 'Lelouch' sounds way better than that. I've only heard it as a family name (I think there's a French comedian bearing that name - Claude Lelouch), though, but never as a first name. But then again, we're speaking aristocracy here, so weird, old-money names are not that unlikely to spring up hither and yon.
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2006-11-02, 06:46 | Link #482 |
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in fact, i wasn't really paying attention to the genre, because it doesn't really make sense for japanese and english in fact. (having some relative who have lots of difficulties to use "la" or "le", same for "un" and "une" etc )
as for the second translation... you are right, (i wasn't really thinking about some synonyms too, based on a litteral translation ~~) we could also take another clusmy translation "Thecrosseeyed", though it should be "leloucheur" or such (i'm not quite sure if we should translate his name as a whole, or each part of its name seperately... though, since it's a name, it doesn't matter at all XD) as for its use in this anime, yup : it appears to have no particular meaning (it would be hard that it was intended to come from claude lelouch or ruddy lelouch, according the huge difference ^^; ), more based on a "cool" sounding, especially "ranperuji", even without any french knowledge, you could think it has some "noble/foreigner" aspect, though it's a fake name. (still, it makes me feel that sometimes, i understand some english comments about silly names in some anime based on english... this can let loose too much guffaws ~~)
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2006-11-02, 07:00 | Link #483 | |
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But I should admit that 'Lelouche' is quite an original name and I'm not going to fuss over that as the 'dubious'/'suspicious' meaning is an added bonus for those who speak French.
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2006-11-02, 12:48 | Link #486 |
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Episode 5 at 2chan:
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It looks like C.C. just lurves Pizza Hut. She's even got a pizza-eating scene in the next ep sequence. Holy God. Spoiler:
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2006-11-02, 14:33 | Link #488 | |
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ouch looking at the screencaps it looks liek lulu wants to get the jump on C-2 cant w8 to watch this ^_^
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2006-11-02, 14:39 | Link #489 |
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Pizza Hut logos have appeared in three of the shows so I suspect there's a sponsorship deal going on between Sunrise/Bandai and the Hut. Rather like EA doing in-game advertising, this seems to be the dawn of in-anime advertising...
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It must be the case as I doubt the director and Sunrise would go as far as brazenly using the logos without Pizza Hut's consent - and therefore risk unauthorized use of copyright material. Otherwise they'd have done the usual - warp the name into a parody so as to prevent any complaint that might be done afterwards.
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2006-11-02, 16:37 | Link #492 |
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BTW (since there isn't a thread for ep5 yet), is it just me or did Nanaly mistake C.C. (perhaps C.C. tricked her into believing so, who knows) for Lelouch's girlfriend?
I believe I heard the words 'Onii-sama no koibito' quite clearly and last I heard, 'koibito' meant 'lover' or '(girl/boy)friend'. And, to address an issue brought up a little earlier, yes, C.C.'s name is pronounced 'C-two' (shi-tzu) in ep5.
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2006-11-02, 17:29 | Link #495 |
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You know, for some reason when I saw Euphemia, I was both dreading and anticipating for her seiyuu to be none other than Rie Tanaka (of Lacus fame...must be the pink hair).
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2006-11-02, 17:51 | Link #496 | |
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Episode 5 was very good; I especially liked the Suzaku X Euphemia (Yuffie?) bit and the insert song, Stories. I get the feeling that Suzaku was trying to look badass with those shades and band-aids. Also proof that Lelouch is getting too bored at times: he Geass'es a girl into carving a mark on the school wall every single day, day after day...
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2006-11-02, 17:57 | Link #497 |
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So how does this series seem so far? Are we looking at a series that shows both sides equally in that the two friends will be on opposite sides?
Or are we possibly looking at another replay of Gundam SEED where both friends up on the other side as if they can do no wrong and will always win? Seeing as this is from Sunrise and the problems that came with the SEED series, especailly Destiny was this address in interviews or anyting? Or is it to early to tell if things will go in that direction? Thanks. |
2006-11-02, 18:14 | Link #498 |
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I do have to say the way the episode contrasted Lulu and C.C./Dark Justice and Suzaku and Euphie/righteousness in the second half was nicely done.
I really liked the insert music/song for both C.C. and Euphemia. As C.C.'s hair colour hints to, it seems C.C. is a leprechaun in disguise as she causes Lulu nothing but trouble this episode while giving him no info at all, even General Patre curses her existance on his way to being punished. C.C. finds Lulu's use, evaluation and naming of his power all quite amusing. Can't wait to hear Nanaly blurt out detals on Lulu's new roommate while Shirley blurts out her findings on Lulu and Karen's relationship sometime in the future. Also Lelouch V. Britannia a.k.a. ZERO is now Imperial Public Enemy Number 1 Ahhh the sigs to come |
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Definitely a good show though.
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2006-11-02, 21:55 | Link #500 | |
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This episode is pretty interesting, introducing a few new characters as well as the return of C.C. We still don't know C.C.'s true intentions though, and her character seems rather different than when she granted Lelouch his powers. It was nice to see Lancelot's dual blades, though they somehow reminded me of Strike gundam's daggers (eeewwww). |
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