Heheh, I find it amusing that I am oooh-ahhed at the wonderment of character clues in the names of Ghibli creations ... and yet I moan in horror when I find such simplistic claptrap in Harry Potter or Star Wars.
I think it's not simply my cultural reverance for Nipponese, but rather the obviously crafty way it's done in the fine example quoted above from Lani's review of Spirited Away vs. the hammer-headed, retarded-child way it's done by the likes of J.K. Rowling and George Lucas.
* - my praise is for the Thousand Fathoms example only. The other two are just as lametard as the Brit and American style of revelatory names.
Last edited by innerSpaceman : 03-31-2006 at 02:38 PM.
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