Hmm. Heroes meta, of a sort...
Dec. 6th, 2007 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eisoj5So...this silly story was just posted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
heroes_fic called Tacotoes Canspray Is Hungry!. It's a cracky little one-shot thing, but the title was confusing and strange, so I checked it out. And I feel kind of weirded out...not because of the subject matter (cannibalism), but because of how the author chose to render the name Takezo Kensei throughout the story: as "Torpedo Ginseng" and "Tacotoes Canspray". Leaving aside the canonical choice of "Adam" to use a Japanese name for his mercenary campaigns, never mind the use of a Caucasian man to originate the legend (yes, I know Hiro technically *is* the legend himself)...how appropriate is it to further Anglicize it to something so utterly silly? I feel like it's a step away from the already extant jokes about Asian names, and not in a good direction.
Thoughts? I don't feel like mentioning this in the post itself at the moment, that never seems to end well for me :-P
heroes_fic called Tacotoes Canspray Is Hungry!. It's a cracky little one-shot thing, but the title was confusing and strange, so I checked it out. And I feel kind of weirded out...not because of the subject matter (cannibalism), but because of how the author chose to render the name Takezo Kensei throughout the story: as "Torpedo Ginseng" and "Tacotoes Canspray". Leaving aside the canonical choice of "Adam" to use a Japanese name for his mercenary campaigns, never mind the use of a Caucasian man to originate the legend (yes, I know Hiro technically *is* the legend himself)...how appropriate is it to further Anglicize it to something so utterly silly? I feel like it's a step away from the already extant jokes about Asian names, and not in a good direction. Thoughts? I don't feel like mentioning this in the post itself at the moment, that never seems to end well for me :-P
