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09-11-2020, 05:35 PM | #401 |
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I don't know why it only just recently occurred to me, but now that I have a convenient physical representation of Kuuga's Mighty Form thanks to the Figure-rise Standard line, it meant an easy way to finally get a good look at something that's had me curious for years and years at this point. Those Linto inscriptions on his collar and around his abdomen.
Because obviously those have to mean something. Kuuga as a show was very painstaking about its fictional cultures, and yet, even though I'm sure the information is out there, I've never, ever seen what those characters are or what they mean. Except, actually, I had seen them laid out before. Several times over, in fact. Yeah, sure enough, Kuuga actually gives you all the information you need as long as you're paying enough attention. This screencap from episode 44 shows the descriptions of each of Kuuga's forms, some of which Sakurako reads out loud in dialogue at points, and some of which I believe are only ever glimpsed in brief moments like these. In the case of Mighty Form, its 10 character spiel is written three times on the waist, and two going around the gold on the collar, with each instance seperated clearly by a little mark sorta like a hyphen, I guess. I presume it's much the same deal with the other three base forms, so everyone feel free to pull out your Kuuga collections to check if you want. I don't know if this was a mystery to anyone else, but at any rate, I think it's kind of amazing how much of the show's lore actually made it into little freeze-frame moments like this. All the detail packed into a show that often told such minimalist stories. This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Linto writing plastered on Kuuga and his gear, and I find this stuff kind of fascinating. Saber's doing a pretty similar shtick with its Rider-Moji right now, and I'm liking that a lot too. Probably what got me in the mood to actually look into this finally.
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09-11-2020, 05:43 PM | #402 |
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I mean, translate all those symbols for me and I'll have no problem reading the runes on Growing, Mighty, Rising Mighty, and Amazing Mighty for you.
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09-11-2020, 07:13 PM | #403 |
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The phrases themselves are easy enough for me to figure out now that I understand where they all come from, fortunately, since the show did that work for me. They basically just describe Kuuga's function in whatever form. According to this very handy page I found, since the text in that screencap is hard to read, the one for Mighty Form is something like "The warrior (Kuuga) who wears the stone of hope to strike down evil like flame". Or something, anyway. It's also worth noting that even though the show provides translations to Japanese, each individual Linto character represents a concept by itself, broadly like kanji, but it's not a direct, 1:1 thing. The bit about flame is part of a sort of elemental association shtick between all the forms, and the characters representing those (the sixth in each phrase, for referenece) are also what's written on the hand pads of the Rising forms. Mighty is flame, Dragon is water, Pegasus is wind, Titan is ground (technically more like an earthquake), and Amazing Mighty seems to get the character for lightning, straight out of the prophetic warning about Ultimate Form (it's the one right after the four-horned Kuuga/warrior mark). I'm basically learning most of this as I'm typing it, by the way. It's seriously crazy I wrote as much about Kuuga as I did and there's still all these layers to unpack. Feel free to dig around those pages I linked with Google Translate turned on or something, by the way. I'm sure the results will be rough in spots, but it's chock-full of everything you could ever want to know about the Linto writing system, from a full list of both the kana-equivalent phonetic characters and the kanji-esque ideographic ones I've been talking about, to even a page dedicated to explaining how the shapes signify the concepts they represent. Very informative stuff! I was not aware the Linto character for "god" was a person with beetle horns until seeing that page! I'll have to look over it in more detail myself sometime.
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09-11-2020, 07:20 PM | #404 |
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Wow, that's actually interesting that Black Kuuga gets Lightning as its element. All things considered I always assumed that its element was either Darkness, or that it remained Fire considering Ultimate's' ability to use Pyrokinesis. Reminds me how GoLion/Voltron treated Black Lion as Lightning, with the justification that it was the element that unified all... the... others...
Oh god. Brain blast.
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09-11-2020, 09:18 PM | #405 |
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Yeah I looked them up and found it funny how they are katakana letters mirrored.
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09-12-2020, 03:30 AM | #406 |
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Wait woah woah woah, you’re telling me Amazing Mighty wasn’t just a straight recolour; it had its own unique set of characters on the suit?!
That’s... holy heck that’s dedication.
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09-12-2020, 06:07 AM | #407 |
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That's Kuuga.
Also, since seeing the sticker sheet for the Figure-Rise kit was what tipped me off about the symbols on the gloves, I went to properly look at all of Amazing Mighty's appearances in the show, and made yet another discovery. In episode 46, it's very clearly the lightning symbol. While in episode 47, it's very blurry, but clearly still the lightning symbol. But then, if you look at Amazing Mighty's other big appearance, the episode preview for 47, it turns out he's got something else entirely on his hand. I'm not totally sure what that is, actually. It's like the flame symbol, but the tips of the lines are different shapes and it's missing the one in the center. It's hard to make out, but it might be the character for "fighting"? Which is such a cruel insult to Yuusuke to write on his fists I kind of love it if that's right. I don't really know, and frankly, I gotta take a break from thinking about Kuuga lore for a bit before I get dizzy. What I do know is that this fact adds a whole lot to the feeling that scene already has of being a glimpse into some strange alternate universe. Not only was in not used in the actual episode, but it's also just plain wrong.
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09-20-2020, 06:14 AM | #408 |
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Just realised this, but it seems that the blades on all the Saber Riders' helmets are the tips of their main weapons.
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09-20-2020, 08:29 AM | #409 |
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... and then there’s green dude
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09-20-2020, 11:38 AM | #410 |
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Well he seems to use two swords so I guess the blades on his helmet forms a Gundam V-fin of sorts or at least that's what I see upon zooming on the image
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