con and ow

[louiselux]

Ow, my throat hurts. Ow owwww.  It's either tonsilitis or a throat infection, but one side is all red and swollen. Am off to doctor's to get it poked at.

I loved connotations, and have succumbed to daegaer's MASSIVE Weiss Kreuz pimpage. Well, okay, I suggested watching one episode and then four hours and several missed panels later we were emerging from the TV room blurry eyed and I was seriously craving Aya/Crawford. I stayed up late last night and just had to watch about 5 more episodes. Will do a proper con report later, when things (ie, me) are less blurry.

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[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Todo is such an annoying little fellow, far more annoying than Nagi (who had the sulky teenage boy thing down pat, but wasn't as smug).

Oh! Is "Todo" really "Tod", do you think? Like "Toto" is actually "Tot"? How many characters called "dead" can the series have?!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Toto was really Tot? So Todo very likely could be Tot, er, Tod too. It reminds me of the mattresses named Zem in Hitch-Hiker's Guide, 'all of us are called Dead, mostly we are evil and eventually we are killed by assassins.'

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to work out, but all of Schreient have one syllable German words for names (that get butchered mightily in the subtitles):

Hell (bright) - the glasses-wearing leader who seems to have gone to university with Masafumi

Schön (beautiful) - the blonde ex-model

Neu (new) - the silent Asuka look-alike

Tot (dead) - the bright-blue haired girl Nagi likes

Tod means "death" and is a noun - all of Schreient seem to have adjectives for names. I don't know if that's meant to be significant, as Schuldig ("guilty") also has an adjective for a name.