[Fish Sandwich]

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.