-Strange anime titles-

trueline · Pure Hope Joined: Jun 13, 2006 Posts: 5134

Usually title has a relation with its stuff, but there are some animes that have strange titles which make me wonder why did they choose such title.

Look at the well known anime Bleach. What does bleach has anything to do with the story? =/ I checked this word in dictionary and it made chuckled.

There are other animes which you can figure out why its title like that such as Naruto, the name of the hero. As simple as that.

Also Argento Soma, the title is also spelled Î‘Î Î—Î•Î?Î¤ÎŸ Î£ÎŸÎœÎ‘, Greek for "The Silver Body". If you watched the anime then you know that the hero's left face was burned due to the expolsion then his skin color became silver. So maybe thats why ^ ^

Yeah there are titles in Japanese but try to translate it and see how it is related to the anime itself.

Did you find any strange or weird titles? discuss it here!
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retgy · newbie! Joined: Dec 02, 2006 Posts: 27

isn't it bleach because of ichigo's hair color? Razz

kevinchaosvs · Shogun Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 2551

There are actually alot of weird titles.
And some ( alot, actually ) don't even make any sense. At all.
I bet they gave weird titles for the sole purpose of catching attention, without even thinking of how they link to the anime.

The recent one would be Mnemosyne. In Greek, it was the personification of "Memory". But the anime content wise seemed to be more of Norse Mythology based -- it kept talking about the Yggdrasil. Greek title but Norse content?

Bleach...well, there were several theories as to the name. Becoz the Shinigami "cleanse" the Hollow so...yeah...you get the point....

Speaking of Bleach, reminds me of D.Grayman. I , for the life of it, have absolutely no idea what the heck does the title means. And it sound so weird as well. (anyone knows the reason for the title?)

There's also Loki Ragnarok. Once again, the series throws in stylish names... just to be catchy and no other reasons. Yeah, most people know what Ragnarok is and who is Loki, but to throw them in together... well...yeah, it's both Norse...but that doesn't mean the names go well with each other.

Also, how could we ever forget FLCL?

I'll try to expand my list later when I can think of the older series... ...

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And now, to a title that actually made sense (despite having odd names)
xxxHOLiC: For those who don't know, the "xxx" denotes variable, "holic" denotes "obsession/addiction", as in say, alcoholic, workaholic etc
This anime happened to be about such themes, so yeah. (and it sounds cool too) Very Happy

LoneWolf325 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

I believe FLCL was explicitly stated to be a nonsense name for the anime.

Mnemosyne actually makes a bit of sense for the title of that series.
The time spores store the memories of the people they reside in, and those memories can then be eaten and gained by someone else. Rin's resurrection at the beginning of episode 6 seems to indicate that the spore itself doesn't just keep the person alive, it actually becomes that person.

One that recently seemed to confuse people was Spice and Wolf, which depending on your opinion was either a really good anime about economics, medieval Europe, and pagan harvest gods, or was a really good anime about economics, medieval Europe, and pagan harvest gods that was made hard to watch by gratuitous Engrish. I'm of the first school, really. The title itself, of course, refers to Lawrence, who deals at least partially in spices, and Horo, who... if you don't know, you just need to watch the series.

One that makes little sense to me now that I think of it is Wolf's Rain, which is about a pack of wolves, but doesn't really deal much with rain. The end of the world, yes. Perhaps there was something to do with the fact that the only rain in the series is in the opening sequence and the end of the final OVA.

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Sometimes translated as "When the Higurashi cry")could easily confuse people, especially with the title translated to English being They Are Crying. Higurashi are apparently a species of cicada which has a particularly mournful cry, which can be heard during the festival the series focuses on.
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trueline · Pure Hope Joined: Jun 13, 2006 Posts: 5134

kevinchaosvs · Shogun Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 2551

line >>> yeah, but still, it's kinda weird to put the "D." for D.Grayman.
and I don't think Kanon has anything to do with canon.
As for the Higurashi part, me thinks it's more on the fact that the cicadas sounding mournful -- well, you know how owls were once thought to be ominous becoz of the sound of their hooting ? -- similar idea in Higurashi , I guess.

Anyway, another title I thought of, which sounded quite weird, was Fate Stay/Night. Yeah, I saw lots of theories as to how the title works, but still... ...it sounded more like the creator chucked in gratuitous amount of Engrish.

xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo (or whatever it is)... yeah, it's named after the main character and is meant to be funny, but I still find it strange.

Kashimashi ~ Girl Meets Girl... the series takes place in some city called like Kashimura or something, but I don't see why they changed the name around to what they did

Lucky * Star... does this even mean anything?

LoneWolf325 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:09 am Post subject:

"When the Higurashi cry" would be a literal translation of the series, "They are crying" was the licensed localization for the benefit of Americans who don't know what Higurashi are.

'cause everyone knows Americans are morons...(stupid sorcerer's stone) Rolling Eyes

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Kimmie-chan · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:21 am Post subject:

Fate/Stay Night.

Is there any relevance to anything in the show?

Ahh also Fruits Basket was always one I thought the name was odd, but it explains later in the manga, where its a game where kids get to choose a fruit and Tohru get's assigned Onigiri and her 'fruit' never gets called out.
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kevinchaosvs · Shogun Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 2551

Fate Stay/Night
Many theories to the Stay/Night part
1. Battles were held at night in order to prevent the "normal humans" from finding out about the Magicians
2. This was adapted from an eroge. 'nuff said.

The "fate" part may relate to Archer's history. some time paradox caused by Rin in the summoning of Archer and saving Emiya Shirou. Archer's true identity is in fact none other than Shirou himself (adult version)

xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

Kimmie-chan · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:33 am Post subject:

Speaking of misguiding names.

School Rumble --> I always thought it was some school yard fighting anime like Tenge Tenjou ... although school yard delinquents and fights related its a School Romantic comedy.

Princess Tutu --> Although not misguiding ... its the most off putting anime title for anyone to see it, even if it is a master piece of an anime ^^;; Defiantly a diamond in the rough. They spent heaps of years on this one.
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du5k · A-Source Staff Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 6357

Utawarerumono. It means, "the song being sung" or "the one being sung", but it doesnt seem to have much to do with the anime itself right?

red255 · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 13, 2007 Posts: 923

"Lucky * Star... does this even mean anything? "

Lucky Channel at the end has a Star....

The Second+ seasons of Slayers, Try, Next, Revolution, etc. what does this MEAN?

Seriously.