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Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:42:23 2010 No.5659211 [Reply] [Original]

How does ZUN come up with the names for the names he puts in Touhou games?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:43:23 2010 No.5659220 File: 418 KB, 640x905, sanae kogasa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Airbags deployed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:44:23 2010 No.5659229 File: 41 KB, 515x500, reggie durr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >names for the names

Bern !FAGetWqs1I Wed Jul 14 20:46:23 2010 No.5659246

Probably by randomly picking a few words that work together. The translations of the names sometimes make sense and relate to the characters...other times, who the fuck knows what he was thinking.

Kogasa = 小傘　= small umbrella.

Komachi = 小町　= small town? What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:47:23 2010 No.5659252 >>5659246 Small town describes how many people could fit into vagina at once.

Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:48:23 2010 No.5659259

>>5659211
Lately, a few of his characters have been going the literal route: Satori is a satori, Nue is a nue (or is nue a Nue?), Kogasa is a kasakasa.

We know the Moriya group is named after mythology, geography, and an actual shrine and its shrinekeeper.

>>	Bern !FAGetWqs1I Wed Jul 14 20:48:23 2010 No.5659260 >>5659252 Komachi isn't a slut, not even in fanon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:48:23 2010 No.5659261 >>5659252 Fuck yeah, distance manipulation.

Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:49:23 2010 No.5659265

>>5659246
I always thought it would be cool to name Japanese characters, since you can just take a kanji that relates to their personality somehow, put it into a name dictionary, and pick out the coolest name. I don't get why people bother making names that have nothing to do with the character's nature when they can do that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:49:23 2010 No.5659266 >>5659260 You say that as if any of them are sluts in canon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:49:23 2010 No.5659274 File: 1.99 MB, 324x237, smoke grenade.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5659252 >could fit into vagina

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:50:23 2010 No.5659277 >>5659259 Excuse me, "karakasa."

Anonymous Wed Jul 14 20:53:23 2010 No.5659314

He puts a random bunch of paper slips each having words loosely related to the game being currently developed in his hat. He shakes it up, picks one out, and boom we have Satori Komeji. This also explains why said hat is with him almost every time he's seen in public.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 21:00:23 2010 No.5659389 File: 245 KB, 850x750, 1271693240602.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5659211 >names for the names

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 21:36:23 2010 No.5659789 ZUN borrows myths from all over the Japan, dresses them with western clothes and then combine legends and ancient stories of gods. It won't be long before a Greek god enters Gensokyo

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