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Why characters are named after ships?
Aoba, Akagi, Ayanami, Fuyutsuki, Hyuga, Ibuki, Katsuragi, Kirishima, Makinami, Maya, Musashi, Soryu, and Shikinami are all names taken from Japanese war vessels. Why is this? I was hoping that Kyoko's name was a reference to Led Zeppelin, why all these naval references?
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Re: Why characters are named after ships?
Shinji wrote:Aoba, Akagi, Ayanami, Fuyutsuki, Hyuga, Ibuki, Katsuragi, Kirishima, Makinami, Maya, Musashi, Soryu, and Shikinami are all names taken from Japanese war vessels. Why is this? I was hoping that Kyoko's name was a reference to Led Zeppelin, why all these naval references?
Not only that, but "Ikari" means "anchor," to further carry the maritime (er. not Mari-time ) theme.
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Re: Why characters are named after ships?
Shinji wrote:Aoba, Akagi, Ayanami, Fuyutsuki, Hyuga, Ibuki, Katsuragi, Kirishima, Makinami, Maya, Musashi, Soryu, and Shikinami are all names taken from Japanese war vessels. Why is this? I was hoping that Kyoko's name was a reference to Led Zeppelin, why all these naval references?
Anno is huge battleship otaku. Has been since kid I guess as he mentions in one interview that he loved ships like Yamato even before seeing Space Battleship Yamato (and he saw it when he was 14 years old)
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Specifically, his preferred IJN warship class are the Takao-class heavy cruisers. To quote Anno:
http://wiki.evageeks.org/Resources:Character_Name_Origins
Both Ibuki and Maya are borrowed from warships of the former Japanese navy because they sounded good. Ibuki is also a commanding officer in Kaette kita Ultraman whom I like, but that's a very minor reason. I chose Maya (摩哉) because I love Takao-class heavy cruisers best after Yamato-class battleships.
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The writer wanted a theme for his characters' names? Imagine that! It's never happened before.
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Re: Why characters are named after ships?
Shinji wrote:Aoba, Akagi, Ayanami, Fuyutsuki, Hyuga, Ibuki, Katsuragi, Kirishima, Makinami, Maya, Musashi, Soryu, and Shikinami are all names taken from Japanese war vessels. Why is this? I was hoping that Kyoko's name was a reference to Led Zeppelin, why all these naval references?
Japan is a country surrounded by the sea, it permeates their soul and brings them life, and their fighting spirit is legendary. Why wouldn't they use those references?
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Wm. Shakespeare wrote:This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,—
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
From which commonality between the two archipelagos at either end of the Eurasian land mass we got the illustrious Mari Makinami.
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Re: Why characters are named after ships?
Im just being poetic, I was in that mood last night.
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Personally I am waiting for Anno to name a character after the Hood
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"Don't be alarmed, we're taking over the ship" -- Cpt. Jack Sparrow
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"Damn the torpedoes" -- ADM Farragut
"I have not yet begun to fight!" -- Cpt. John Paul Jones
"Don't be alarmed, we're taking over the ship" -- Cpt. Jack Sparrow
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Anno picked warship names the same reason that Akira Toriyama picked vegetable names for Saiyans, instrument names for Piccolo's henchmen, and cold puns for Frieza and his family. Just because he could.
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well apparently even WW2 is already finished, the Americans still fear the Japanese' utmost zeal in battlefield.
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