Talk:Space Battleship Yamato characters

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[edit] Mi-kun

Do we know for sure that Mikun was male in the Japanese version? In the "Torajima no Mi-kun" anime and manga, she was female. Evan1975 07:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Good point, I was just relying on desslok.com who said the cat was male in the original Japanese. However, I'm aware that "-kun" can be used for girls as well as boys, so you could be right. Another feline question would be the origin of those plasters on his/her privates (visible when he/she is preening him/herself during Dr. Sado's radio contact in season 1, episode 10). Does that indicate neutering, or is it a cartoony way of covering up genitalia? :-$ Dave-ros 07:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I just checked the manga; it's sort of an anthology of different Mi-kuns. Some of them are male. Anyways, the first Mi-kun was female. It says, "Because the tiger-striped markings on her face made her look masculine, we called her Mi-kun." The original cover of the manga also showed bandages, but on Mi's belly [1]. I don't really know what significance they have. The first story (the one the anime was made from) appears to be autobiographical. When I saw Matsumoto speak about 6 years ago, he said his current cat was Mi-kun III. As for Yamato's Mi-kun, they may have said what its gender was (I can't remember), but the "-kun" suffix does not necessarily mean male in the case of Matsumoto's cats. :) Evan1975 07:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Excessive wikilinking

Who's made every character's name into a (red) wikilink? Unless everyone's going to have an article of their own (which doesn't seem necessary)... is this some bizarre way of making everyone's name wikilinkable in other articles? Dave-ros 12:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)