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Animefreak08
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I love it when Kenshin says this but i want to know what some people think it means. What do you think?
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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The author was a fan of a comedian, and the comedian always said "oro." So he had kenshin say it.
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Animefreak08
Posts: 882 Location: Michigan ftw. |
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molloaggie
 Posts: 578 Location: Texas |
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You should add that to the trivia part on the Kenshin manga info. That would be neat.
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Mou Kaoru
 Posts: 298 Location: Simple minds are easily amused. |
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Most of the time Kenshin uses it as a question or when he gets hurt. I heard something that it roughly means "huh?"
I don't know maybe he just randomly says it like I do! OROOOO!!!! 
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arxane
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From the little "Kenshin" I've seen, he tends to say it every time he is abruptly threatened, especially from someone highly unlikely:
Beautiful woman: "Kenshin! I will kill you!" Kenshin: "Oro!?" |
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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I didn't think "oro" meant anything at all. I thought it was like "duh" or "doh" or something.
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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A scanlation I read translated the omake in the end, and that just happened to be the subject in it.
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Ataru
 Posts: 2334 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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I thought it was part of the wanderer dialect, kind of like Chichiri's "no da"
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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I don't know about "Oro," but I know Kenshin's "de gozaru" (translated in the subs as "that it is" at the end of every sentence ) is definitely part of some archaic grammar thingy like "no da."
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
 Posts: 2460 Location: Do not contact me for support. |
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"no da" actually doesn't make much sense. "watashi wa kuuki ga suki no da" would be, grammatically something similar to "i like cookies are that [i like]".. you might be able to nudge it to "i like cookies that are the ones that i like", but that's not quite equal. anyway... "de aru" / "de arimasu" is a classic form of "to be" "de gozaru" is, afaik, a polite form of 'to be', an archaeism in modern japanese. "de aru" and "de gozaru" fell out of usage during the meiji period, and is used today mostly for antiquity, like "thee" and "thy" in English. gan-chan's "desu da" is something like a village farmer trying to be polite; he thinks he knows what he's saying, but then he's throwing his "da" (colloquial 'desu') on top.. no, i don't think it's part of a "wanderer" dialect. |
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king_micah
 Posts: 994 Location: OSU |
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I thought it was Kenshin doing a masculine version of Ora, but there being none, is designed to show his backwardness.
Least that is what a few people told me. |
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Ataru
Posts: 2334 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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Thanks for the clear up. |
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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http://animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=466
That John's answer to the question in animenation. |
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Mou Kaoru
Posts: 298 Location: Simple minds are easily amused. |
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LOL I wonder what dictionary that person was using. A character that says "ara" all the time is Quon from Rahxephon.
Ara. Oro? 
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