Question about Inuyasha

bulma_gt · Post by **bulma_gt** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:09 am

As I can find people from all around the world here I have a question, is the version in spanish of Inuyasha the only one that instead of calling Kagome calls the girl 'Aome'?

birdie · Post by **birdie** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:34 pm

If you would like to hear some International Yasha:

http://www.geocities.com/inuyashagoya/i ... ional.html

It's been a while since I've listened to them but I think they still work.

bulma_gt · Post by **bulma_gt** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:58 pm

I was mostly wondering about the name thing cos I found it weird, the rest of the character's names are fine except for Kagome's. Yet I checked the website and the spanish versions they have there is from Spain, we got the one dubbed in Mexico.

darksuzaku · Post by **darksuzaku** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:43 am

They probably changed her name because in Spanish the sound "Kagome" can be interpreted as something else..... that doesn't sound very nice......

same reason why they changed the title of "Laputa, castle in the sky".....

bulma_gt · Post by **bulma_gt** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:21 am

The word itself doesn't sound like something else, and Laputa is still called Laputa here

darksuzaku · Post by **darksuzaku** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:57 am

bulma_gt wrote:The word itself doesn't sound like something else, and Laputa is still called Laputa here

well, if you spell it like "Kago Me" it's fairly simply to interpret it as "Me Kago". Do you get it now?. At least that's what my little sister who is not much into japanese animation interpreted it when i first told her the name.

As for the Laputa title, they only had to change the title because the spelling inside is like "Lápiuta", which sounds good enough. It was just the title that led to misunderstanding. Of course more recent releases of the movie have kept the original title.

Shampoo · Post by **Shampoo** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:46 am

^

I totally didnt think about that till now but your right! XD
Ouch! Poor girl will forever be associated w/ crap in my mind now
when I hear or read her name.

XD

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:40 pm

OMG!!! I never ever thought about Kagome's name like that before

That's absolutely hilarious :hitting:

Laputa is bad depending on how you say it, where you choose to place emphasis. Also very funny

Sometimes when I'm listening to Japanese music, I interpret some of the lyrics as if they were Spanish, for some reason. The structure of modern Japanese and Spanish music sound very similar to me.