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Stepping out of the world of the game, one could ask, Well, what did the creators intend Konoko to mean? There is evidence that they were not just randomly slapping Japanese syllables together, as "Mukade" likely refers to the [[wikipedia:mukade|insect]] (again, we can't know this without kanji, but this is a case where the word "mukade" has a traditional usage in Japanese myths (and real-life, if you are unfortunate enough to have them in your house), so we can make a reasonable ''assumption'' as to the meaning). However, the notion that Bungie West had a meaning in mind for "Konoko" is pretty much blown out of the water by [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part1/brent.html this interview]. Stepping back into the game's world, we can still pretend that it means "this child", or whatever we want it to mean, when plotting an [[Oni2|Oni 2]], or trying to be clever in an [[:Category:Added value|Added value]] section. Just don't make the mistake of asserting your opinion as if it's fact. | Stepping out of the world of the game, one could ask, Well, what did the creators intend Konoko to mean? There is evidence that they were not just randomly slapping Japanese syllables together, as "Mukade" likely refers to the [[wikipedia:mukade|insect]] (again, we can't know this without kanji, but this is a case where the word "mukade" has a traditional usage in Japanese myths (and real-life, if you are unfortunate enough to have them in your house), so we can make a reasonable ''assumption'' as to the meaning). However, the notion that Bungie West had a meaning in mind for "Konoko" is pretty much blown out of the water by [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part1/brent.html this interview]. Stepping back into the game's world, we can still pretend that it means "this child", or whatever we want it to mean, when plotting an [[Oni2|Oni 2]], or trying to be clever in an [[:Category:Added value|Added value]] section. Just don't make the mistake of asserting your opinion as if it's fact. | ||
==Occurrences of Oni Names in the "Real World"== | |||
Do the quotes on "real world" seem strangely disdainful of reality as we know it? Oops. Oh well. Here is a place for listing actual places where names and places from Oni show up. Again, it's not a matter of whether these occurrences have any significance, but just for the sake of showing that we found something weird/interesting. If it's not self-evidently weird or interesting, explain why you find it so. | |||
*'''Konoko No Nanatsuno Oiwaini'''. Can also be written as "Konoko no nanatsu no Oiwai ni", which is easier to parse. | |||
::You can find a mention of this phrase [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/930041/47103 here] and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228493/fullcredits here]. IMDb [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619958/ gives the literal translation] as "For My Daughter's Seventh Birthday". My limited understanding of the language tells me that, out of the three significant words in that phrase, "nanatsu" is "seven" or "seventh", and "oiwai" is probably "birthday", leaving "konoko" to mean "daughter" or "my daughter". This is quite interesting. Once again I am astounded at the beneficial coincidence that "Konoko" can mean something significant even though Brent Pease, in the interview linked to above, claims it 'just popped into my [non-Japanese-knowing] head'. I would really like to know whether the "konoko" in the title means "daughter" or "my daughter", but I'm guessing it's just plain "daughter". | |||
::That still doesn't tell me why on earth a Japanese video game has a song by that title, but hey, why start trying to understand the Japanese now? | |||