at the top of my PAL front cover of Torico there are the words " gekka mu gen tan" or something and some characters (in kanji i assume) does anyone know what that means? does torico itself have a meaning?
im gonna feel silly if they tell you in the game but i havent completed it have i
Since nobody particularly well-versed in Japanese seems to be stepping forward, I might as well hazard a guess and demand that it may or may not mean something like "Moonlit Unending Grief".
I didn't see that interpretation for "tan" anywhere (perhaps it's slang?). I'm no expert; like I said the only reason I posted was because no actual experts seemed to be paying attention, and I at least happen to have a Kanji dictionary handy. I'm sure I'm being quite pretentious by even attempting a rough translation. :
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My reasoning went something like this:
gekka = getsu (moon) + ka (down/under) (the "tsu" becomes a consonant doubler in the compound) = "in the moonlight" (cf. "under the moon")
mugen = mu (nothing/without) + gen (end) = infinite/endless (on a rather unrelated topic, this meaning is presumably the inspiration for the name of the famous user-extensible fighting game engine)
tan = grief/suffering (I guess the "spit" meaning might be tangentially related to this)
But without seeing the Kanji, it's really impossible to know for sure what the appropriate interpretation is.
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