The Hunters Guild: Red Hood: Tucker Report (Patreon)

Tucker's episode notes (including name pronunciation/meaning) for our The Hunters Guild: Red Hood episode

6-word summary:

• All the better to masturbate to!
• OR: Art is cool when it’s discernable

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CHARACTERS:

• Velou/ベロー:
  • WTF is this name supposed to be?
  • The translation spelling of Velou is a  very weird choice. Thought it was French at first, but no, the Japanese suggests that the “ou” is supposed to be a long “oh” sound….
  • This might actually be the English word “below”...?
  • There’s even a panel in the manga that spells his name as “Belleau”!
  • “Velou” is a really shitty choice on the localizers’ part, in my opinion.
• Grimm:
  • Pronunciation is obvious
  • Reference to brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who went around modern-day Germany in the early 1800s recording local folktales parents would tell their children to scare the shit out of them so they would behave. Source of a lot of what we call “fairy tales.”
  • Jacob Grimm was also one of the most important early proto-linguists, whose “Grimm’s Law” was one of the first major breakthroughs in historical/comparative linguistics. Super important. (Basically one of the first steps toward scientifically disproving the Bible, lol)
• Debonair Diamond:
  • “Debonair” is a masculine word in French and should only be used to describe a man, but whatever