Comments on: Watch the English dubbed version of Sailor Moon Crystal Act 12, Enemy – Queen Metalia, Friday January 29th at 9pm

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:04:12 +0000

To Rami and saintfighteraqua : yeah, I go with Metalia too !

And as you said, Rami, since Metalia is a name quite close to the word “metal”, I think this draws a very coherent and interesting parallel with the fact that a lot of characters in Sailor Moon are named after precious or semi precious gemstones – for example : Beryl / the Four Heavenly Kings (though the concept of Four Heavenly Kings in itself comes from Buddhist faith) / the members of the Black Moon Clan (even the Ayakashi Sisters !) / the Amazon Trio and Zirconia / Kaolinite and the Witches 5…

Besides this, we must keep in mind that in Japanese, the sounds produced by the letters “r” and “l” are very close, if not identical (but on this point, a Japanese speaker could help if I say something wrong). So I think that in N. Takeuchi’s mind, Metaria has always meant to be… a very metallic queen \m/ .

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:30:02 +0000

I’ve always went with Metalia, too. It makes sense to do so since it’s obvious why they call her Metaria in Japan.
Both pronunciations are pretty awesome in my opinion.

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:59:36 +0000

I generally go with “What sounds like something a scientist would name a character?” After all, Naoko Takeuchi’s background was in science, particularly chemistry, so she drew many of her character’s names from the sciences or scientific concepts and materials. So I call her Metalia because it sounds like metal, which is something a chemist would definitely use for a character name.

By: Luke Yannuzzi

Luke Yannuzzi — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:23:53 +0000

On Friday, good riddance to Queen Beryl forever!