Interesting. X3
Sep. 21st, 2005 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveYou can learn very fascinating things from being obsessed with YGO. I was wondering why Siegfried's one Goddess card was Verdanda instead of Belldandy, so I did a search and ended up at Wikipedia. According to it, Verdandi is the name of the mythology character, but in the series Ah My Goddess the Japanese changed it to Belldandy because it was easier to pronounce. XD; That doesn't explain, however, why in YGO she was called VerdandA instead of VerdandI.
I also looked up some stuff on Valkyries. Listen to this:
"Wagner's valkyries
Richard Wagner incorporated Norse tales that included the Valkyrie Brünhilde (Brynhildr) and her punishment and subsequent love for the warrior Siegfried (Sigurðr) into his operas Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung. In Wagner's treatment the Valkyries are nine daughters of Wotan (Odin) and Erda (Jörð) 'Earth' and are named Brünnhilde, Helmwige, Ortlinde, Gerhilde, Waltraute, Siegrune, Rossweisse, Grimgerde, and Schwertleite.
In modern media, the valkyrie Brünhilde singing the Ride of the Valkyries is one of the most recognizable visual and aural motifs from opera."
Rather fascinating, wouldn't you say? I think I'll be bookmarking Wikipedia . . . and watching Siegfried's duel with Joey again.
On Monday I had a whopping two and a half hours of sleep. **sweatdrop.** You know, I really hate insomnia. XD; But at least it ensured that I went to sleep quickly when I next went to bed.
Before I did, I watched the first three episodes of YGO uncut, and then had a craving to see the episode where Dartz takes over KaibaCorp, because I'd only seen it once, when it originally aired. So I watched that too and really enjoyed it. It's such a great episode. X3 I love when Yami Yugi is frustrated that Seto doesn't believe the monsters are real and he's like, "Do you have a better explanation?" and Seto goes, "I think you're nuts, but this isn't the best time to argue."
Also, I think I determined that the lady who does Mai's voice in the uncut episodes is the same one who plays Rouge on Sonic X! I wish they'd gotten her to play Mai during Doom Arc. ^^; Bella Hudson is a good voice actress, but she simply could not do Mai's voice the way Megan Hollingshead did. I need to find the name of the VA who plays Rouge.
EDIT: WTH is this? "Note: While it's unknown where the Japanese name Amelda came from, his dub name was based off of Aleister Crowley, the British warlock who created the Unicursal Hexagram, the symbol used for the Seal of Orichalcos. The obscurity of this fact is most likely what helped it slip past the censors."
Um. If it's so obscure, where do they get the idea that the information is fact? I don't like the information that was submitted about Alister, Valon, and Raphael at Wikipedia. ^^; It seems to be consisting mostly of the author's own opinions and not the facts. Also, the authors attempted to give their ages, which is impossible since ages were never stated in the anime. I don't think Wikipedia should be so lax and allow "anyone to edit," as it says on the main page. XD;
EDIT AGAIN: I think I found out where Hermos/Helmos comes from! It's already been determined about Timaeus and Critias, but Helmos has been a mystery. XD; Well, I kept looking through their YGO section and read about the Orichalcos, then went to a page about an Indiana Jones game revolving around Atlantis. Look here: "On some point, the team must find The Hermocrates, the lost dialogue of Plato discussing Atlantis further than his previous works (Timaeus and Critias)." Hermos!
I also looked up some stuff on Valkyries. Listen to this:
"Wagner's valkyries
Richard Wagner incorporated Norse tales that included the Valkyrie Brünhilde (Brynhildr) and her punishment and subsequent love for the warrior Siegfried (Sigurðr) into his operas Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung. In Wagner's treatment the Valkyries are nine daughters of Wotan (Odin) and Erda (Jörð) 'Earth' and are named Brünnhilde, Helmwige, Ortlinde, Gerhilde, Waltraute, Siegrune, Rossweisse, Grimgerde, and Schwertleite.
In modern media, the valkyrie Brünhilde singing the Ride of the Valkyries is one of the most recognizable visual and aural motifs from opera."
Rather fascinating, wouldn't you say? I think I'll be bookmarking Wikipedia . . . and watching Siegfried's duel with Joey again.
On Monday I had a whopping two and a half hours of sleep. **sweatdrop.** You know, I really hate insomnia. XD; But at least it ensured that I went to sleep quickly when I next went to bed.
Before I did, I watched the first three episodes of YGO uncut, and then had a craving to see the episode where Dartz takes over KaibaCorp, because I'd only seen it once, when it originally aired. So I watched that too and really enjoyed it. It's such a great episode. X3 I love when Yami Yugi is frustrated that Seto doesn't believe the monsters are real and he's like, "Do you have a better explanation?" and Seto goes, "I think you're nuts, but this isn't the best time to argue."
Also, I think I determined that the lady who does Mai's voice in the uncut episodes is the same one who plays Rouge on Sonic X! I wish they'd gotten her to play Mai during Doom Arc. ^^; Bella Hudson is a good voice actress, but she simply could not do Mai's voice the way Megan Hollingshead did. I need to find the name of the VA who plays Rouge.
EDIT: WTH is this? "Note: While it's unknown where the Japanese name Amelda came from, his dub name was based off of Aleister Crowley, the British warlock who created the Unicursal Hexagram, the symbol used for the Seal of Orichalcos. The obscurity of this fact is most likely what helped it slip past the censors."
Um. If it's so obscure, where do they get the idea that the information is fact? I don't like the information that was submitted about Alister, Valon, and Raphael at Wikipedia. ^^; It seems to be consisting mostly of the author's own opinions and not the facts. Also, the authors attempted to give their ages, which is impossible since ages were never stated in the anime. I don't think Wikipedia should be so lax and allow "anyone to edit," as it says on the main page. XD;
EDIT AGAIN: I think I found out where Hermos/Helmos comes from! It's already been determined about Timaeus and Critias, but Helmos has been a mystery. XD; Well, I kept looking through their YGO section and read about the Orichalcos, then went to a page about an Indiana Jones game revolving around Atlantis. Look here: "On some point, the team must find The Hermocrates, the lost dialogue of Plato discussing Atlantis further than his previous works (Timaeus and Critias)." Hermos!
