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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. | ||
==Hidden Messages in Oni Art & Trailer== | |||
From the Marathon Story page, long before Oni even came out: | |||
I don't know if this has been covered before, but perhaps this is of interest. | |||
I got out my Oni notepad tonight (the freebie from the Action Sack) and the faint Kanji (Japanese characters) caught my eye. Behind the image of<br>Konoko there are faint vertical lines of Japanese text faintly visable. Faintly is the operating word here. There are several words seperated by ones<br>and zeros in each line. After squinting at these line for a while, I managed to translate a couple of them. Now these lines repeat, both within the<br>"sentence" and also across the page. So while there looks like there are about 20 lines or so, there are only six unique "sentences" that I can pick out. | |||
They are: | |||
shinrai ni atai suru hito inai (there is no one I can trust) | |||
kiki (this is the Oni kanji repeated twice) ... kurai shorai (dark future) | |||
kako no aru onna (a woman with a past) | |||
furu kontakuto akushon (full contact action) | |||
buramu (blam) korutana (cortana) | |||
warui keikan (bad cop) | |||
I don't know but I suspect this is the same kanji used in the trailer. | |||
Source: http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_oct-dec99.html | |||
==Occurrences of Oni Names in the "Real World"== | ==Occurrences of Oni Names in the "Real World"== | ||