Bokkesan: Tucker Report
Added 2021-11-01 17:36:53 +0000 UTCTucker's episode notes (including name pronunciation/meaning) for our Bokkesan episode
- Title: Bokke-san
- Pronunciation: the “kk” is a long consonant! Basically, there’s a slight moment of silence before the [k] sound in which pressure is built up and
- Bokke is probably referring to a type of tattoo that was given as a punishment in ancient China...I think?
- In the book MC is reading in manga, the word “bokke” has the reading 菩怪, which I can’t find in the dictionary. Individual characters mean “type of grass/sacred tree” and “suspicious/apparition” (the same character in the words “kaijuu” and “youkai”).
- Characters
- Hinomiya Tsuru 火ノ宮満(ヒノミヤ ミツル) / ヒノ
- “Hinomiya” means “fire shrine” while “Tsuru” is written as “fullness/satisfaction” (can also refer to a full moon). Not really sure if the name has any real significance.
- Shijiro Sayu 尾白白湯(オジロ サユ) / サユ
- Uses the character for “white” twice in a row? Never seen that before.
- “Shijiro” means “whitetail” (like a deer), and “sayu” means “boiled water” (uses the character from white, too, since boiling water looks white)
- The double use of the kanji for white HAS to be some hamfisted bullshit emphasizing her “purity” or something, and the boiling part has to be themed with protagonist Hi-no (fire)
- Hyouzen
- Guitar ice dude
- First syllable is like “yo” but with a breathy H sound in front of it (think of how the English word hue is pronounced like “hyuu”)
- Word “hyouzen” typically means “suddenly/sudden appearance,” but it’s written here as 氷髯 (ice + beard/mustache)
- Hinomiya Tsuru 火ノ宮満(ヒノミヤ ミツル) / ヒノ
- Terms:
- Nekogami
- Literally “cat god” (neko + kami with a sound change)
- Is supposed to be a bodhisattva, which in Buddhism is person/creature/spiritual being who is destined to attain buddhahood (enlightenment) in a future reincarnation
- Nekogami
MISC NOTES:
- The translation I’m reading is hot garbage
- WTF are they really just summarizing important plot events rather than actually show them happen?
- OMG just skipped forward to the ending….omg it’s so bad! Even the characters think so!