One of the villains in Hyperdimension Neptune is named "Magiquone" in Japanese. In English they call her "Arfoire" (i.e. "R4").

There's some punning going on here. In Japan, a device which allows you to cheat at a console game is called a "magic computer" マジコン i.e. "majikon" and that's where "Magiquone" comes from. For the English translation they named her after the R4 flash memory card for the Nintendo DS.

As to the punning, Neptune gets her name wrong. In English instead of "Arfoire" Neptune calls her "Bar Whore".

That seems to be an attempt to replicate what's happening in Japanese. Her name is "Magiquone" and Neptune calls her something that sounds to me like "Madagonguu". You can hear it clearly in ep 13 at time offset 18:24.

Magiquone gets mad when Neptune says that, so I assume it's something that sounds like an insult, probably racy considering the pun they used in English. But I've listened to that at least 20 times and I cannot exactly parse what Neptune is saying. Anyone care to help me out?

UPDATE: Sorry, my mistake. It's episode 12, not episode 13. (13 is the OVA.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:57 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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