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Another sudden name realization
3 years ago
Don't do it first. Do it better.
Four years ago, almost to the day, I had a sudden realization about names in Sailor Moon: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8782861/ (I can't link it on DA because I can't easily search for journals because DA doesn't believe in good decisions). Today, I had another.
I watched Sailor Moon on Toonami for a while sometime in the early 00s, and I remember in one of the seasons I caught some episodes of (looking this up on a wiki, the Dark Moon Circus), the monsters of the week had names that all started with what I heard as "Remlis/Rimless/Remless/etc." Which I thought was weird, but by then I was clued into the fact that translators didn't translate things perfectly from Japanese to English, in fact sometimes they just did whatever they wanted, and Sailor Moon might actually have been the first time that was pretty clear to me since I'd also seen some of the movies in subtitles and everyone's names were different, to say nothing of reading fanfiction and finding out that, omg, Uranus and Neptune were gay.
But at the time, I figured this Remlis-whatever stuff was just something from Japanese that didn't translate well and wasn't important.
Now I had another sudden realization.
I realized that the spelling of their names had to be "Remless" (and looking it up confirmed that's how it's spelled) because it references REM, Rapid Eye Movement, sleep. Aka, the phase of sleep when you do most of your dreaming.
There are a lot of gaps in my memory of the details of what I watched, but I remember they were looking in people's dream mirrors, and talked about dreams, and...something something, dreams were a focal point.
And they're all about disrupting dreams. Hence, no REM sleep, so you go...
REM-less.
I watched Sailor Moon on Toonami for a while sometime in the early 00s, and I remember in one of the seasons I caught some episodes of (looking this up on a wiki, the Dark Moon Circus), the monsters of the week had names that all started with what I heard as "Remlis/Rimless/Remless/etc." Which I thought was weird, but by then I was clued into the fact that translators didn't translate things perfectly from Japanese to English, in fact sometimes they just did whatever they wanted, and Sailor Moon might actually have been the first time that was pretty clear to me since I'd also seen some of the movies in subtitles and everyone's names were different, to say nothing of reading fanfiction and finding out that, omg, Uranus and Neptune were gay.
But at the time, I figured this Remlis-whatever stuff was just something from Japanese that didn't translate well and wasn't important.
Now I had another sudden realization.
I realized that the spelling of their names had to be "Remless" (and looking it up confirmed that's how it's spelled) because it references REM, Rapid Eye Movement, sleep. Aka, the phase of sleep when you do most of your dreaming.
There are a lot of gaps in my memory of the details of what I watched, but I remember they were looking in people's dream mirrors, and talked about dreams, and...something something, dreams were a focal point.
And they're all about disrupting dreams. Hence, no REM sleep, so you go...
REM-less.
