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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1428715" data-attributes="member: 158">One of the reasons I like Cowboy Bebop (well, other than the excellent English Dubbing that makes it likeably for me) is that the names are not so over-the-top for Anime. If the worst they did was &quot;Jet Black&quot;, then I can suspend my disbelief.Even the original Star Wars often used names to convey stereotyping. &quot;Luke&quot; is a name evocative in the American South and Midwest of a &quot;Farmboy&quot; name. Han SOLO is pretty much a loner. &quot;Chewbacca&quot; sounds so much like &quot;Chewing Tobacco&quot; it stands out. &quot;Greedo&quot; is obvious. There are more I'm sure in the original movie, but they are escaping me at the moment.Some authors use the names in a comedy story for humorous (and great) effect. In Robert Aspirin's M.Y.T.H. series, Tananda (&quot;Tanda&quot; for short) is a female Troll. (In the MYTH series, male trolls are ghastly monsters, female trolls are shapely super-model types, both with green hair. Both are insanely strong) A female troll is - you guessed it - a Trollop. &quot;Tanda&quot;s name is used directly because Aspirin's first book publisher said his first novel was a little bland, and could use a little more &quot;T and A&quot;. So he gave it to them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1428715, member: 158"] One of the reasons I like Cowboy Bebop (well, other than the excellent English Dubbing that makes it likeably for me) is that the names are not so over-the-top for Anime. If the worst they did was "Jet Black", then I can suspend my disbelief. Even the original Star Wars often used names to convey stereotyping. "Luke" is a name evocative in the American South and Midwest of a "Farmboy" name. Han SOLO is pretty much a loner. "Chewbacca" sounds so much like "Chewing Tobacco" it stands out. "Greedo" is obvious. There are more I'm sure in the original movie, but they are escaping me at the moment. Some authors use the names in a comedy story for humorous (and great) effect. In Robert Aspirin's M.Y.T.H. series, Tananda ("Tanda" for short) is a female Troll. (In the MYTH series, male trolls are ghastly monsters, female trolls are shapely super-model types, both with green hair. Both are insanely strong) A female troll is - you guessed it - a Trollop. "Tanda"s name is used directly because Aspirin's first book publisher said his first novel was a little bland, and could use a little more "T and A". So he gave it to them. :D [/QUOTE]

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