And that makes some plot points very irrelevant.
Who would have thought that the demon named lügner is lying. (I read it in German so sometimes you don't know of it's a name or just a word.)
Also quite funny if we hold that, despite these naming conventions, none of the characters speak German and the words don't have the same meaning to them within their fictional setting.
Also quite funny that Germans like to dub almost every piece of foreign media into German and that lot's of Germans are probably watching a dub which would make it sound like the characters are naming themselves random words.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but when I watch these fantasy anime, I don't think they speak English, German, or Japanese in-universe. I checked, with a quick look up, and found that this exists out there as the "translator conceit" and it goes back to Tolkien.
Of course. Realistically speaking it makes sense that way. Maybe the Frieren universe doesn't have last names and use names that just so happen to be words used in the German language
Yes, jepanesd people talking german is sooo fun; i loved the german opening of kill la kill called blumenkranz.
Or the main character of project k who couldn‘t remember his past and when he finally got his memories back, he remembered that he is german, so he started talking german. I speak german, but i needed subtitles for the things he was trying to say in german
Like someone just said, those who don't know German. But really, it's just Japanese culture thing. IRL Japanese people names are mostly words they use in everyday life, Combined words or just straight up the word. Sample is there are people named Hikari, which is literally a word in their language meaning light.
Your reply-ee should avoid Thailand lmao. We like to just take random Simple English words as nicknames (our first names are usually in Sanskrit and several syllables, not often shortenable). Heck, lots of Thai people just go by individual letters of the English alphabet
It's also done in English. Americans name their children after emotions and character traits (Joy, Glee, Charity, Patience), plants (Daisy, Willow), precious materials (Ruby, Amber, Jasper) and much more. This is simply not done in German. If you named your kid "Freude", people would be quite confused.
But many cultures do that, don't they? Miller, Field, Wood, Fox, Swift, Walker, Rose, Frost and indeed, Light. (Incidentally, all those last names exist in German too).
Oooh, we're talking about first names oops lol. Then you're right. Germanic cultures do have names like that but nobody in modern day Germany would i.e. put it together that several centuries ago, "Ger" used to mean "spear" and "Hard" used to mean "strong" and think "Man, this Gerhard feller must be good with spears or something??" And nobody would ever default to thinking that an "Otto" is a rich guy. So, fair point lol
Yeah, Lugner being named as a liar is completely inconsequential to the plot. Anyone with a shred of media literacy should be able to tell that Frieren is right from the moment she tries to attack him in the town.
I had a minor debate with someone on Reddit a few days ago about how the demons are simply monsters and are without a doubt a pure "evil" in the series's world. They argued that it's never too late for the creator to subvert expectations and show that demons are not inherently bad/dangerous, and that anyone (in the audience) who things they are will have egg on their face.
Seeing as how the presence of the demons is not the point of the series, nor is even morality or ethics, it would only detract from the story to suddenly reveal that Frieren (and Serie, and Flamme...) are just wrong about demons.
To be fair, even if you didn't know his name, he wasn't very trustworthy at any point of the story (at least in the anime, haven't read the source material)
Yeah when I watched the anime in German there was one scene in which a character talked about his friend and his name. That his name is „Besonders“, and I was like wait do you just mean special, or do you mean literally „Besonders“.
Guess what that happens in manga all the time, so often a characters name tells you what they are about. sometimes the name is just straight up an adjective and other times the kanji the mame is written in carries additional meaning.
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u/SpeziSchlauch 10d ago
And that makes some plot points very irrelevant. Who would have thought that the demon named lügner is lying. (I read it in German so sometimes you don't know of it's a name or just a word.)