Name of the new Guren model
紅蓮: Guren
聖天: Ganapati (Ganesha, not Brahmanaspati)
八極: Eight Directions (Means that you’re covering all ground, coj thinks it just means the Guren’s mobility stuff is super duper upgraded and it can now go anywhere)
式: -Type
聖天: Individually read, this is like, “Super Awesome Heaven”. Let’s fucking ignore that though, because this show LOVES Jupiter, and we can link Jupiter to those 2 Kanji through a chain of bullshit (this is fitting of Geass).
聖天 is a reading of Ganesha, an elephant deity who removes obstacles. (THANKS AMERICAN GODS!)
Ganesha also goes by Ganapati (title).
Ganesha is called Ganapati due to a writing which likened him to BEING FUCKING AWESOME.
Ganapati is a title meaning you’re the ruler of planets. This is only fitting of Jupiter because it’s the hugest fucking planet.
However, I guess you can’t really link it like that in Japanese…? Idk how Hinduism works in Magic JP land, but Ganapati isn’t really the “name”. coj said that JP Buddhism is removed from Hindu so this name is probably confusing the fuck out of Japanese people too. So what’s the intended meaning, Ganesha or Ganapati? I assume because of the Jupiter in the Op, its Ganapati.
…Guren Ganesha Eight Extremities Type?
Guren Obstable Remover Full AoE-Type
Guren AoE Easy Mode-Type
Guren ~ To the Ends of the World, In Honor of Ganesha Type
Guren Elephant God Ends of Earth Form
Guren Ganapati AoE-Type
Guren Ganapati & Eight Extremes Model
Guren Mk. Ganapati Eight Extremes
……ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Disregard this. I was right about Ganapati, but not about which Ganapati I was associating with.
Tags: KnightMare Frames, Misinterpretation
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July 7, 2008 10:38 am
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Garr (July 7, 2008 @ 11:14 am)
I think something inside me died a little, I would never have made the link between Ganesha > Ganapati > Jupiter maybe it makes more sense if you are Japanese :/
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Lolifucker (July 7, 2008 @ 1:05 pm)
Guren Lagann-Type most definitely is the best
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Ranjid (July 7, 2008 @ 2:07 pm)
jisho.org lists 聖天 as “nandikesvara” or “nandi”, shiva’s bull and loyal servant which he used to ride.
This site: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~sanmyoin/syouten.html tells other strange things about 聖天… bah, mythology. I miss the times when mechas had simple names, like hyaku shiki.
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miasmacloud (July 7, 2008 @ 2:18 pm)
Nandikesvara is another name for Ganesha too. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%93%E5%96%9C%E5%A4%A9 @_@;
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Ranjid (July 7, 2008 @ 3:22 pm)
πάντα ῥεῖ, huh?
This show is getting complicated.
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jygali6006 (July 8, 2008 @ 4:20 pm)
if britannia has upgraded the guren…. are they going to use it for their of purposes?!?! of r they gonna like: force karen to work w/them?? hope neither….
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cowboy (July 9, 2008 @ 1:14 pm)
Lloyd will pilot it and take over the world by himself, all while humming that little ditty from picture book 6.75.
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