> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:33:08 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner
> gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.

>
> For the same reason they chose to turn Fenris into a cute little
> puppy. Even in Japan people would expect Thor to use a hammer. Humour
> comes from defying people's expectations.