On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Ken Arromdee arranged electrons to indicate (back on 07/21/2008 06:46 AM) that:
Good call. Someone already put up screencaps of episode titles that contain the word; they are at http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x51/sparktg/tessaiga1.jpg http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x51/sparktg/tessaiga2.jpg Where do I find such people?
I read Japanese well enough to transliterate hiragana, and those screenshots clearly show a "chisai tsu" less than half as tall as the "te" preceding it and the "sa" following. Accordingly, those five characters should be read as "te s sa i ga."
Which doesn't mean the article should be moved! As someone else pointed out, our article on the big guy is at [[Godzilla]], not [[Gojira]].
Disclaimer: I know nothing whatsoever about anime of any sort, and I am nowhere near fluent in understanding Japanese (but I don't need to be to simply map one character set to another).
Godzilla is a long established error -- so well established it's even mocked in at least one of the remakes. ("it's GOJIRA, you idiots") or something rather like that. It's actually an interesting question: at what point does Wikipedia accept an obvious mistake as fait accompli?