Gratuitous Italian: Difference between revisions

== [[MangaAnime]] e [[AnimeManga]] ==▼

* Professor Chronos in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' used some random Italian phrases in his speech. (The "[[Verbal Tic|na no ne]]" he ends sentences with is Japanese, though.)▼

* Izumi from ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' uses Italian exclamations from time to time. She moved to Italy at a young age, and had only recently come back to Japan. [[Catch Phrase|Commozione~]]▼

* Parco Folgore in ''[[Gash Bell]]''.▼

* Chad in ''[[Bleach]]'' has a tattoo that says 'amore e morte' - Italian for 'love and death'. (He's Mexican, by the way, and in spanish it should be 'amor y muerte'.)▼

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' throws in a lot of Italian, including [[Calling Your Attacks|attack names]] (being [[Shonen]], after all). To be fair though, most of those characters actually ''are'' Italian, and the series centers around [[The Mafia]]. And since the author apparently consults an actual Italian, most of it seems pretty sound, but there are still things like "Elettrico Cornata".<ref>the correct spelling is "Cornata Elettrica" and means "electric ramming/goring".</ref>▼

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' also throws in a lot of Italian, which isn't surprising since the setting's in Italy.▼

* The [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]] [[Hollywood Cyborg|Cyborgs]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', [[You Are Number Six|whose names are the numbers]] one to twelve in Italian, except for Sein — the actual Italian word for six is "sei", without the n.▼

* Another ''[[One Piece]]'' example: [[Chessmaster|Sir Crocodile]] uses gratuitous Italian (as well as English, Spanish, and French) in most of his attack names. Badly, at least in the Italian publication, where it's mixed with English: "Ground Secco" ("secco" means "dry") and "Desert Spada" ("spada" means "sword") and "Desert Girasole" ("Sunflower"). In the original Japanese, Crocodile says "Deserto Spada" or "Deserto Girasole". Though this could be interpreted just as Engrish gibberish, it's also true that "deserto" is the ACTUAL Italian word for desert. It must be noted though that the real Italian expression for "Desert sword" would not be "Deserto spada"; rather, "Spada del deserto".▼

* ''[[Aria]]'' takes place in a copy of Venice, so there is some Italian used in series. Curiously though, most written text in the show is actually in [[Esperanto, the Universal Language|Esperanto]].▼

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has this in ''spades'':▼

** Both the openings for the sound novels and the anime have lyrics in Italian.▼

** Beatrice's name is said the Italian way. ("Bay-ah-tree-chay" as opposed to the more Americanized "Bee-uh-triss.")▼

** Divine Comedy references abound.▼

** And ''much'' more.▼

* The Dolems in ''[[RahXephon]]'' are named after Italian-derived musical terms (Fortissimo, Arpeggio, Mezzoforte, etc.)▼

* Speaking of which, ''[[Mezzo Forte]]'' is also the name of an [[Porn with Plot|action-packed]] [[Hentai]] OVA series.▼

* [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] and its [[Spin Offs]] [[Puella Magi Kazumi Magica]] and [[Puella Magi Oriko Magica]] are this in terms of [[Calling Your Attacks]]. [[Cool Big Sis|Mami Tomoe]] of the parent series is the biggest, {{spoiler|and then in Kazumi Magica had the main magical girl Kazumi copying from her which in turn her fellow Pleiades Saints are copying from her.}}▼

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has some italian here and there, including the kingdom of Fiore (Flower) and Aria (Air), member of the Element Four. The Sky Dragon's name [[Spell My Name with an "S"|can also be read as Grandine]], meaning "Hail"<ref>as in the ice drops falling from the sky.</ref>▼

== [[Film]]<ref>Yeah, sometimes translation is easier than others</ref> ==▼

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