EDIT: Damn, this should perhaps have been in speculation nation! If a mod passes by, please move it.
Well, I'm not sure whether this have been covered before, but I read a science magazine on the train home for christmas, and came across a picture of a man named. Götz von Berlichingen. Appearantly in AD 1509 he was a german knight who lost his hand, and had it replaced with an artificial hand with moving fingers, which allowed him to hold a sword and continue to fight. I think he lived to be eighty or something, quite famous for his time.
Goethe even has written a famour play about him.
He was called Götz of the Iron Hand.
Now I know that Miura has done a lot of reading about medieval europe... does anyone but me think that Miura might have found some inspiration there?
Götz/Guts?
And if anyone knows both german and japanese, how would the name Götz be rendered in katakana? I'm not sure how the german Ö is pronounced compared to the swedish Ö. It feels like Guts might be a reasonable rendition... it's pronounced more similar to A than to O.
Just a thought...
Well, I'm not sure whether this have been covered before, but I read a science magazine on the train home for christmas, and came across a picture of a man named. Götz von Berlichingen. Appearantly in AD 1509 he was a german knight who lost his hand, and had it replaced with an artificial hand with moving fingers, which allowed him to hold a sword and continue to fight. I think he lived to be eighty or something, quite famous for his time.
Goethe even has written a famour play about him.
He was called Götz of the Iron Hand.
Now I know that Miura has done a lot of reading about medieval europe... does anyone but me think that Miura might have found some inspiration there?
Götz/Guts?
And if anyone knows both german and japanese, how would the name Götz be rendered in katakana? I'm not sure how the german Ö is pronounced compared to the swedish Ö. It feels like Guts might be a reasonable rendition... it's pronounced more similar to A than to O.
Just a thought...