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Kaylara
March 5th, 2002, 12:03 PM
Interesting fun factoid of the day...
Kamehameha is the name of certain chiefs and deities in Hawaii... It is also a kind of attack used in the cartoon Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z/ and Dragon Ball GT.

Kaylara
Illuminatus
March 5th, 2002, 02:53 PM
Originally posted by Kaylara
Interesting fun factoid of the day...
Kamehameha is the name of certain chiefs and deities in Hawaii... It is also a kind of attack used in the cartoon Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z/ and Dragon Ball GT.

Kaylara


We are all now dumber for having read that.

Thank you Kaylara
Sephiroth
March 5th, 2002, 04:42 PM
it also mens tsumani in hawaii too:)
Kaylara
March 5th, 2002, 04:52 PM
Originally posted by Illuminatus



We are all now dumber for having read that.

Thank you Kaylara

That was the point... ;)

Kaylara
Demeter
March 5th, 2002, 04:56 PM
Actually it's a mistake in translation/pronunciation. In the original Japanese, it's pronounced, "Ka-me Ha-me HAAAA!" as a focus for the attack (I've seen many of the episodes in the original Japanese -- did you know that the character called "Hercules" in English was "Mr. Satan" in the Japanese?). When the scripts were sent to the US for translation, they simply transliterated the phonetic Japanese language for that phrase, since it was meaningless. However, in English, it was written Kamehameha, which was the name of one of the Hawaiian kings. And it was pronounced that way in the series, which is totally nonsensical in context, since it no longer makes a good focus shout. (Apparently nobody bothered to watch the original show ....)
Sephiroth
March 5th, 2002, 05:40 PM
ive see every think from dragon ball - dragon ball gt gt was in french there is no american version yet (sux) but ive seen them all in japanese too.