The Twilight Realms

 Maybe I should come up with a name for these pointless trivia posts that are focused on debunking common misconceptions or myths. Ah well. This time it's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . Despite all the music references in the series, the "JoJo" nickname for the main characters did not come from the song "Get Back" by the Beatles. Araki used to have meetings and work on his manga at a restaurant called Jonathan's, and he named his main character Jonathan Joestar in honour of the restaurant. The JoJo name came from that. In relation to the above, it's commonly stated that Stands are named after classic rock bands or songs. It's more accurate to say they're named after bands or songs in general - there isn't really any apparent preference for one genre or time period over any other, and there are some Stands named after more (comparatively) modern or non-rock acts, such as Limp Bizkit and Born This Way. Also, it's important to keep in mind t...

 Time for another pointless trivia about Final Fantasy VII , where I focus on translation issues and oddities that caused misunderstandings about the game and certain plot points, as well as just anything else interesting. There's a point in the Temple of the Ancients where Cloud and Aerith have a very weird exchange, where Aerith reads out the words "Black Materia" one letter at a time, Cloud says "Black Materia!" and Aerith replies "Hey! ...Black Materia." The reason for this surreal dialogue is that it's an attempt by the localisers at translating a kind of joke that only really works in Japanese. Written Japanese doesn't use spaces, so it can sometimes be ambiguous as to where one word ends and the next begins. What happened was that Aerith read the phrase correctly, but inserted the space in the wrong place, so instead of "Kuro Materia" (Black Materia), she came up with "Kuroma Teria" (black-magic terrier). Cloud then c...