Journey into Mystery

I remember reading about this at pengiesama's plus some jokes about Valentinian royalty descending from the Moon Tribe from Okami, which FITS THEM SO MUCH, but I completely forgot about it till I got this text scroll at Cornelius' book:

The founder of the [Kingdom of Valentine] is said to have come to [Erion] in a flying ship from another world. At the time, Valentine's magic was far more powerful than any other nation on the continent, and it rapidly gained control of over two-thirds of the land. One of their unique magics was the ability to [make magic stones]. With the [Cauldron], a giant magical furnace, they had technology that enabled them to [store magic power in stones].

...LOL. I love it when a canon pulls UNEXPECTED LOL ALIENS on me. Particularly when the things coming from the aliens happens to be the point of most of the plot, or the more doomtastic part of it at least (the Crystallization Cauldron, the Ark of Yamato...)

Hell, even Zelda (remember Majora's Mask? the aliens kidnapping the cows?) and Elite Beat Agents pulled aliens on me. And in books... Good Omens? The other books with aliens I have read were pretty much the premise of it. Same with manga. And you could argue, back to videogames, that the royal family of cosmos on Katamari are some sort of aliens god-like beings (no, really, what the fuck ARE they?).

Now I feel like rewatching that Monty Python sketch in which everyone in Britain is turned into a Scotsman.

The more promo info we get for the new Slayers season (LOL Revolution?!), the happiest I'm feeling. Xelloss confirmed kind of makes up for WTF CCS!SAKURA CAMEO IN TRC OVA WHUT.

But nevermind that. In the end, in an act of masochism, I did buy Odin Sphere. I'll start playing when I'm done with this post, but I had to share these jewels of the Spanish translation I saw on the manual:

Oswald -> Oswaldo (...LOL)
Valentine -> Valentia
Pooka -> Puka
Psypher -> Psiferita

I'm in for a ride, amirite? :') I really don't get why they changed Oswald's name and kept the others (well sure, try to "Spanishize" Gwendolyn... but then why not Cornelio instead of Cornelius if we're at it?). And wouldn't it be more natural, if they didn't like Valentine, to change it to Valentín?

...It could be worse, right, but I still don't get it, especially Ozzy's change. Oswaldo, el Paladín de las Sombras XDDD That sounds like something you'd roll in a tabletop RPG, not a character from a story-driven J-RPG.

I'll do the meme solesakuma tagged me tonight. Y QUE SEPAN, ESTOY TRISTE QUE HICIERAN LA SERENATA MIENTRAS YO DORMÍA /wrist

ETA: Merche, Clow, les mando la portada en la tarde, a más tardar la noche ^^ Perdón, se me olvidó por completo D:

ETA2: Ooooh, the game uses the language the PS2 is configured to. Meaning my texts are all in English :D I won't have to deal with "Oswaldo"! XDDDD