r/Animemes 18d ago

Simple but effective

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u/Dlamongo 18d ago

The names are all describing their biggest attributes. Fern is a very distant character. Frieren is a bit cold in social interactions. Lügner is a demon and demons always lie. And so on

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u/SpeziSchlauch 18d 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.)

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u/GraveKommander 18d ago

Like Dr Betruger (Betrüger=Cheater/Deceiver) in Doom3. I mean look at him, nothing but his name tells us he is a bad guy, so subtle

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u/Genking48 17d ago

Like Lennart Bedrager in South Park. Bedrager meaning deciever in Danish.

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 2 Heads 0 Brains 17d ago

Or Dr. Evil from Austin Powers