Monster Discussion #25: Giant Sea Serpent

[o.supreme]

Greetings All,

I am making a list of Toho Kaiju for myself, and am trying to get away from generic names. For example, I have the name for the Giant Octopus form KK vs Godzilla as "Oodako" , and the Giant Condor from G vs The Sea Monster as "Daikondru", but I cant seem to find an English Translation for the Japanses characters for the creature we most commonly call the Giant Sea Snake from KKE. Its not a matter of being lazy, I have searched, but maybe your collective talents are better than mine. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you.

[MaxRebo320]

Nessie?

[Reaper Man]

Timothy?

[Tamura]

The names "Oodako" and "Daikondoru" are Japanese for "giant octopus" and "giant condor," respectively. They are not legit names. I assume Toho doesn't see them as important enough to even have names.

But, if you still want to know what "giant sea snake" is in Japanese, it's "dai-umihebi".

[o.supreme]

^ Thank you Tamura. I understand your point. Its like calling Mothra (official English) as Mosura etc... "Giant_____" are the official English names of these creatures. But if someone could humor me and find what it would be transliterated as, this would be appreciated. Thank you.

* oh and please no "Giantu Seauu Seapanto"

[edgaguirus]

I can't find any name for it. Due to the brief appearance, it may have no official name. "Umihebi" may be the name you end up using.

[Tamura]

The Japanese Wikipedia page for KKE says "dai-umihebi".

[o.supreme]

Thank you both, and I promise you wont se me using it in public forums anywhere

[menschenjaeger]

But "giantu seauu seapantu" just rolls off the tongue...

There may not be anyone on the foum old enough to get this, but I vote for "Ollie"

[Rody]

* oh and please no "Giantu Seauu Seapanto"

For some reason, I found this to be really funny. I guess I needed a good laugh!

[edgaguirus]

Now you've just hurt Umihebi's feelings.

[Goji]

So it's made entirely out of plastic now?

[Crimson_Raptor]

"giant sea snake" is in Japanese, it's "dai-umihebi".

What about Giant Sea Serpent though?

[Goji]

I mean, they're practically the same thing.

[Showa Gyaos]

But "giantu seauu seapantu" just rolls off the tongue...

There may not be anyone on the foum old enough to get this, but I vote for "Ollie"

Is that a Kukla, Fran, and Ollie reference?

[Crimson_Raptor]

they're practically the same thing.

No, serpent and snake should have two different translations in Japanese.

[Goji]

Considering it doesn't have an official name in the first place, I don't think it matters too much. Wouldn't you say?

[Crimson_Raptor]

I don't think it matters too much.

Of course it does. It's part of being a fan to have a thirst of knowledge for our, well, "hobby interest," lol.

[soulgodzilla]

The Giant Sea Snake, probably the most forgotten Toho Kaijus next to the giant octopus, Maguma, Black Moth, and the giant condor. While I kinda wish that Manda was in King Komg Escapes instead of the serpent, I still didn't mind the Giant Sea Serpent at all.

Though I'd must question. If the Giant Sea Serpent was suppose to be a gigantic Sea Snake, why didn't it had a venomous bite like a actual Sea Krait? It would have been interesting if it had a venomous bite since we don't have allot of Kaijus that uses poison on their opponents other then Kumonga.

Oh well, what can you do?

[edgaguirus]

Write a fan fic where it uses a venomous bite.