>On Sep 14, 11:13 am, David Johnston block.net> wrote:

>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:27:06 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez
>>
>> aol.com> wrote:

>>>>is a beardless, average size Japanese high school boy named Narugami
>>>>who wields a boken rather than a hammer. I really like Mythical
>>>>Detective Loki and I like Narugami but I was always slightly disturbed
>>>>of the changes made to Thor to make him culturally acceptable.
>>>>Narugami is a nice character but I really can't see him as an
>>>>incarnation of Thor.

>>

>>>   Ummm, you've really never seen the long-lived Marvel Comics version
>>>of Thor?

>>
>> Yeah but at least he had a hammer.  

>
> He was also big and burly and like Sea Wasp said earlier, was
>passible as a fictional Viking and made more sense as an incarnation
>of Thor.
>
> Depicting Thor is a beardless, average size Japanese high
>school student was not necessarily a bad thing. I really doubt that
>the Japanese audience, even a shounen one, would go for a bearded
>major character. What I do find unacceptable was replacing Thor's
>hammer with a boken. I really want to know why that decision was made.