On Sep 15, 5:44Â pm, David Johnston
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gmail.com> wrote:>>On Sep 14, 11:13Â am, David Johnston
block.net> wrote:>>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:27:06 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez
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>>>>>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.
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>>>> Â Ummm, you've really never seen the long-lived Marvel Comics version
>>>>of Thor?
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>>> Yeah but at least he had a hammer. Â
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>>    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.
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>> Â Â Â 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.
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> For the same reason they chose to turn Fenris into a cute little
> puppy. Â Even in Japan people would expect Thor to use a hammer. Humour
> comes from defying people's expectations. Â
I doubt that most Japanese viewers would know who Fenrir and
Thor or the rest of the Norse people are without explanation. At least
Fenrir assumed wolf form once in the anime, Thor never used a hammer.
Also since Thor's boken was never used in a comedic manner, I doubt
your comedic explanation works.
