Black Torch: Tucker Report (Patreon)

Author:

• Takaki Tsuyoshi タカキ ツヨシ（たかき つよし）

CHARACTERS

• Azuma Jirou 我妻 弍郎（あづま じろう）
  • Think of the “A” and “zuma” as two different pieces so you can avoid pronouncing it like “aZUma”
  • Azuma twitten as…”self-wife….” I don’t think that’s significant?
  • “Jirou” is “second guy,” which I don’t think is significant? Or maybe it is?
• Kishimojin Ichika 鬼子母神 一華（きしもじん いちか）
  • Kishimojin is literally written as “demon child mother god”
  • “Ichika” written as “a single petal”
• Shiba Ryousuke 司場 涼介（しば りょうすけ）
  • The “u” in “suke” is pretty much always a whispered vowel, so think of this as “Ryous’ke”
  • “Shiba” written as “the director’s place” and Ryousuke is “refreshing insertion,” which I find highly erotic
• Rago
  • Very close in pronunciation to the Spanish word “lago”
• Kirihara Reiji 桐原 零司（きりはら れいじ）
  • Don’t think the kanji usage is especially significant
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• Usami Hana 宇佐美 花（うさみ はな）
  • “Usami” is written with the characters for “heavenly” + “assistant” + “beauty”

OTHER

• Utsusemi Technique
  • “Utsusemi” is the word for a discarded cicada shell….also has a double meaning as something like one’s “mortal coil” ….the ghost-bug Pokemon Shedinja is based on this double meaning
• Kawarimi Technique
  • “Lightness of foot”
• Mononoke 物の怪
  • “Mono-no-ke.” All syllables pronounced flatly

Meaning is super vague and mysterious….the “mono” just means “thing,” and the “ke” is spelled with the character for suspicious/ghost, but getting an irregular reading so that it’s the same as beast/animal (it most often gets the reading “kai,” as in “kaijuu” and “kaidan”...you know, from Yatsuba-senpai no Kaidan?)