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   Message 6,735 of 8,273   
   Sunnie to Chris Kern   
   Re: 200 Days of Sailor Moon - Episode 49   
   16 Jul 06 09:17:11   
   
   From: sunniechan@comcast.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
   > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:04:26 -0400, Sunnie    
   > posted the following:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Chris Kern wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Episode 49 - Who is the white rose for? The Moonlight Knight appears   
   >>>   
   >>>The whole "moonlight knight" thing seems like just an attempt to copy   
   >>>off the first season's mystery of Tuxedo Mask; it's slightly different   
   >>>because Sailor Moon seems to know it's Mamoru, but I'm still not   
   >>>particularly impressed by it.   
   >>   
   >>What I don't get is why ADV insists on translating it "Moonlight".   
   >>Tsukikage should equal Moonshadow, should it not?  Isn't moonlight gekkou?   
   >   
   >   
   > "tsukikage" is another word that means "moonlight".  While the word   
   > "kage" does mean "shadow" in the modern language, in older Japanese it   
   > meant "light".  "Gekkou" is the standard word for "moonlight";   
   > "tsukikage" is a slightly more poetic or older-style word for it.   
   >   
   > -Chris   
      
   I was wondering if that might be the case, although my various searches   
   turned up nothing for the word, so I decided to go ahead and bring it up.   
      
   Sunnie   
      
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