Comments on: Itoi’s Mr. Saturn Sketch

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:35:30 +0000

Lol Just noticed that one of the pouches says ”On myös kilttejä karhuja” and it’s finnish and means ”there’s also nice bears”

By: Axl-fox

Axl-fox — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:09 +0000

that Fake Mr. Saturn shall become the next internet MOTHER meme

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:14:10 +0000

Ha! This Mr. Saturn looks funny and it’s hilarious how Itoi labeled it fake. Itoi will never run out of his humor.

By: Leonardo Boiko

Leonardo Boiko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:52:05 +0000

LucasTizma: You’re completely right. Kanji might be difficult to learn, but once you do it makes Japanese much easier to read, since it doesn’t use spaces to separate words.

If you write using only kana, itslikewritingeverythingalljumbleduplikethis. Further, kana doesn’t even differentiates the tones that help in separating homophones in spoken language, so it can be really hard to tell what’s happening.

Mother 2 and 3 are kana-only by design. When reading a large kana text, the temptation is great to start speaking it aloud. Dragon Quest was kana-only because of technical limitations. Itoi, sick in his bed, trying to make sense of the kana jumble, would narrate the game to himself: «Hero defeats the Slime! Hero gains 3 EXP!» That experience was important to him, and he wanted to recreate it for Mother fans, so Mother avoids kanji. That’s why the manual is so keen in having you sing along the game —it’s the proper way to experience it =) And that’s why he has to note that this is not a real Mr. Saturn. The real Mother 2 world is kana.

For the curious, read the full story here: http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=mother2

By: LucasTizma

LucasTizma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:20 +0000

Ha ha. I like it. I love little stuff like that.

It’s my impression that using kanji can also help novice noobs like me to separate “real words” from connecting or grammar words when reading. That’s just me.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:35:24 +0000

What does his company do? All I know of the guy is the three games he made. His company must do other stuff.

By: Linkzcap

Linkzcap — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:57 +0000

It’s funny because I get it

By: >( ^ . ^ )

>( ^ . ^ ) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:57:38 +0000

“This is a fake Mr. Saturn that speaks in kanji.”

lol, Itoi’s weird…

By: PKSTARMAN

PKSTARMAN — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:28:45 +0000

Itoi looks old now… Maybe it would be good to have some vacations.

By: 20thCenturyBoy

20thCenturyBoy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:03:38 +0000

He thinks of Mother every day, and eventually he’ll make another game.

That’s the way I want to think of it.