Looks like entrails. Hence my toothpick comment Check out the lips. There's blood.TheSkyTraveller said:Freaky. What's that in his mouth? His tongue?
Cause of their leader Ganishka (sp?) He has the same type of teeth and as Walter has stated, the cat is a Familier of his.docster said:Come here! Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!
Why does all the Kushan's monsters have similar teeth?
Yukimura said:Remind you of something? After all The Guin Saga is a major influence.
Walter said:Looks like entrails. Hence my toothpick comment Check out the lips. There's blood.
docster said:Why does all the Kushan's monsters have similar teeth?
Aazealh said:As Saiya said, it's because they're all creations of Ganishka and his priests. The Daka also sport similar teeth.
Mizar said:But I think I would translate the title rather as 'Menacing/Threatening/Sinister/Suspicious Tiger' or something. 'Magic Tiger' sounds a bit weird imho.
xechnao said:Yeah, and they were also using other apostles for the familiars too.
Aazealh said:We saw them using a bunch of sewn apostles to create the Daka, not the familiars (Pishacha).
xechnao said:Aren't the daka considered familiars too?
xechnao said:If not who are the pishacha? Crocs, makara, or nobody?
Aazealh said:Nope, they're apparently different, hence the different name. They're "Demon soldiers". To know for sure we would need Schierke to meet some of them and explain what they really are.
Pishacha is a Sanskrit word describing some man-eating demons, in Japanese the kanji mean something like "demon beast soldiers" from memory. It's applied to the transformed Elephants and Crocodiles in Wyndham. The same crocodiles are called familiars by Schierke when Guts' group get attacked on the beach, so we can safely assume that the Pishacha are familiars. As for the Makara (word comes from Sanskrit too), it's a mythological sea monster, created the same way the Pishacha are (transforming an animal using some sorcery and having "priests" monitoring it), so it's also good to call it a familiar (Schierke says so, too), even if it's in a different league than mere Pishacha.
Daka are created a different way from all of these monsters, using apostles and human seeds, that's why they're special. We'll probably get more details about Ganishka's powers and his methods later on in the story, but for now they aren't confirmed as being familiars. Actually Rakshas and Ganishka speak already quite a bit about this in past episodes anyway, I think you could check them to get some details if you want.
Anyway, seeing how the tiger was transformed from an animal and is probably remotely controlled by someone, I think it's fitting to call him a familiar, there's not a lot of doubt about his origins.
Aazealh said:Well, there are different ways of interpreting the word, I just put up "magic" this morning because the familiars are created from sorcery by Ganishka's priests. I think I'd go with "Demon Tiger" or "Evil Tiger" myself rather than sinister or suspicious though, now those sound weird to me. It's open to suggestions anyway, not set in stone or anything...
Mizar said:That's true of course, but I thought maybe a different word could be used this time instead of always using standard vocabulary with words like 'Evil' and 'Demon' again.
But 妖 here gives definitely the feeling of something dark, sinister or evil. And perhaps Miura also chose 妖 here to hint at the fact that we're talking about something under the control of a magical spell. "Bewitched Tiger" would maybe be a possible attempt to catch that meaning in English? But whatever, just 'Demon Tiger' is fine too if you don't want to think too much about it all.
xechnao said:We have seen apostles (the count, roshinu and the egg apostle) to create some powerful creatures from humans. Those come from apostle inbred power, not magic they studied I guess. How do we call those?
Mizar said:That's true of course, but I thought maybe a different word could be used this time instead of always using standard vocabulary with words like 'Evil' and 'Demon' again.
Aazealh said:Quasi-apostles
xechnao said:So who of Ganishka's monsters can we consider of that kind?
xechnao said:And what about the Daka?