Ryuu to Yuusha to Haitatsunin Shikaban - Ch. 2.7 - Setting part 7 - Naming

[MangaDex]

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

BRO

 

[spurgleburgle]

Page 6 is a joke about copyright, if anybody doesn't get it. The Tolkien estate has a copyright on ents, so they use treants to get around it. Beholders are one of the few monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that Wizards of the Coast has a copyright claim on.

 

[cryum]

Author is being too real

 

[Meijin]

Author shouldn't beat himself up so much about the names. Tomme and Johnne aren't actually too far off from what I'd expect from cognates of the original names and I could see them happening in Europe. John itself comes from Yohanan of Hebrew origins as a theosophic name praising god which at some point came to become a name for toilets when it crossed over into English. Johan, Juan, Ivan, Yahya, Jean - they all are cognates of John so Johnne isn't as bad as he seems to think.

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

Page 6 is a joke about copyright, if anybody doesn't get it. The Tolkien estate has a copyright on ents, so they use treants to get around it. Beholders are one of the few monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that Wizards of the Coast has a copyright claim on.

AH of course.
Also:
I think I’ve seen that dragon but it’s name was Istanbul…

Centrair is the Nagoya airport btw

 

[VINT64]

Wait, I don't remember such bonus chapter. Was it present in the main series?

 

[pdonk]

I think I’ve seen that dragon but it’s name was Istanbul…

Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

 

[TotemGenitor]

Wait, I don't remember such bonus chapter. Was it present in the main series?

IIRC, it was said there would be some original bonus chapters. Guess it's one of them

 

[tremor3258]

These are dark powers they're tampering with (Hasbro's lawyers).

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[sixtem]

Page 6 is a joke about copyright, if anybody doesn't get it. The Tolkien estate has a copyright on ents, so they use treants to get around it. Beholders are one of the few monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that Wizards of the Coast has a copyright claim on.

Reminds me of what happened in Bastard!'s serialization:

This monster was originally named "Beholder" but there was a complaint from the Japanese publisher of D&D about Hagiwara using "Beholder" in the comics, so the he changed the monster's name to "Suzuki Dogezaemon", saying that his editor Suzuki had done dogeza (kind of humiliating apology in Japan). However, this was just a joke as his editor's name was not Suzuki, and the real editor did not dogeza at all.

 

[Bireus]

Author is being too real

He needs to partner with someone and create a game. Too much lore not being used in another medium

 

[xyzzy]

Page 6 is a joke about copyright, if anybody doesn't get it. The Tolkien estate has a copyright on ents, so they use treants to get around it. Beholders are one of the few monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that Wizards of the Coast has a copyright claim on.

Mangaka are too cowardly to just name them Tree Dudes and Big Floating Eyes