Comments on: Manto-kun

By: Club Penguin Cheats

Club Penguin Cheats — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:21:09 +0000

Thanks for posting about this, I'll have to let everyone know over on my end!

By: Deas

Deas — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:33:12 +0000

Mayumi – I love that expression! Thanks for teaching it to me.

By: Mayumi

Mayumi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:59:55 +0000

Thanks for your kind explanation of the word, mantle, Deas.
Those “pass the mantle” and “assume the mantle” are interesting phrases. They are kind of like “たすきを渡す” in Japanese.

Mayumis last blog post was: #44-20080424-Osaka dialect, expressing people

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By: Deas

Deas — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:02:17 +0000

Frente – welcome to my blog, and thanks for the kinds words! I appreciate that you took the time to comment. Feel free to drop by anytime.

Clay – that is a wicked cool rendering of a scary Sento-kun. It reminds me of Cthulhu-type Lovecraftian things (with the waiting and all), as well as Norse woodblock printing or something. It’s very troll-like. I don’t know. It rocks.

Mark – I never thought to compare Sento-kun with the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones. (He’s considered the show’s downfall by a lot of people, by the way.) But you’re right – they do resemble one another. Who do you think would win in a fight? Also – I’m going to pretty-up your link.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:10 +0000

I still say the whole mascot "thing-growing-from-head" concept originated on The Flintstones in the 1960's in the US.

By: claytonian

claytonian — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:09:15 +0000

Booyah! With the followup article on me blog! claytonians last blog post was: Sento-kun waits

By: frente☆

frente☆ — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:18:34 +0000

Hi Deas san, surfing on some sites and reached your blog and had fun reading your article about Manto-kun. It is fun to know Japanese culture through someone’s view who grew up in other country. I can easily tell that you are a good English teacher just by reading your response to Mayumi san. I will come back to read your post again and look forward to reading stuff more about your life in Hakata (is that where you live now?) and some findings that you have as a Gaikokujin in your daily life

By: Carlie

Carlie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:59:23 +0000

I agree it is much cuter, and much less scary. I still don’t know what they were thinking when they came up with the original…

Carlies last blog post was: Densha Otoko – Movie – Trailer

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:09:13 +0000

Mayumi – I think we say “cloak” or “cape” more than mantle. In fact, if you look up “mantle” in my dictionary here, it only gives the definition for mantle (also mantel) as “a mantelpiece, a mantelshelf.” I think it’s マントルピース in Japanese. I think it comes from manteau in French. I know the meaning you used as well, of course. I just think it’s not too common anymore. Maybe in phrases like “pass the mantle” and “assume the mantle” to discuss generational responsibility or representation for something… But that’s far more boring than your comment about the colors! That could be fun! But they can’t make it anything that will clash with his current goldenrod color.