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There's probably a whole host of Japanese names that come from misspellings. Two come to mind immediately: Mitsubishi Starion: officially "Star of Arion", but
by Hamuko 6y ago
There's probably a whole host of Japanese names that come from misspellings. Two come to mind immediately:
Mitsubishi Starion: officially "Star of Arion", but few people claim that it's just a misspelling of "Stallion", images of which were featured in some marketing materials. There's also the Mitsubishi Colt and Mitsubishi Eclipse which were given equine names.
GLAY: Japanese rock band which supposedly intentionally misspelled their name although their former classmates claim that they just didn't know how to spell "gray".
- needle0 6y agoSimilar stories in retro shmups: Gradius was obviously supposed to be Gladius, while R-TYPE was named with the intention of R standing for "Laser". Upon discovering laser is spelt with an L, the creators retconned the R to stand for "Round canopy", a trait of the ship in the game.
- Konohamaru 6y agoEclipse is not an equine name?
- Hamuko 6y agohttps://jalopnik.com/holy-crap-the-mitsubishi-eclipse-was-named-for-a-horse-1798159207 https://jalopnik.com/holy-crap-the-mitsubishi-eclipse-was-na...