Re: Blue-Green Years - colors


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from Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (Albert Lunde)
subject Re: Blue-Green Years - colors
date Sun, 02 Apr 2000 8:38:55 CDT
> I was watching anime fansub series called "Blue-Green Years" (boring as
> hell, by the way). 

I wouldn't agree: I think it's a very nice romantic comedy series.

>It's not the actual title of the series, but the show
> goes into great detail about how the Japanese view the colors Blue and
> Green. It went on to say that, in America, a Japanese person would call
> our "green" traffic lights blue. Furthermore, the two colors are,
> supposedly, often used interchangeably as the same color.

"Aoi" being sort of a blue-green, but including both blue and green.

And if you look at Japanese traffic lights in anime, they look blue-green,
not what we'd think of as pure green.

The color in the name of the show being "mizuiro" which literally
means water-colored, "mizu" being (as every Ranma fan should
know) the word for (cold) water. But as you say, the Technogirls
were making a somewhat figurative translation, trying to convey
a double meaning.
 
> Taking this into consideration, Shampoo's hair color, which may look blue
> to us, wouldn't be the same color that a Japanese person calls blue. Her
> hair would look more greenish instead.

I don't know, I'd say Lum would be a better candidate for that description.

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    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)


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