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Kenshin is always saying oro what does that mean???????????
How many .hack animes are there

Oro...Maybe a weird virsion of Oreo? ^_^ There are ALOT of .hack animes!

oro i think means "what?"

OREO sounds bout right....


or the spanish word for gold

oro-gold

Is this the reason kenshin is always saying "that it is," in his sentences? Not that I dislike that: I think it is cool.

According to AltaVista's Babel Fish translation service, Oro can best be translated as:
ろ

Very helpful, ne?

edit: I've never watched kenshin in Nihongo, but is he actually saying "No Da!" at the end of each sentence? Kind of like Chichiri from FY? That would roughly equate to the english expression, "You know?" It's dialectical, I think.


(Dialectical... Does that mean you opt to do something twice?!? )

he doesn't say no da, but he says something similar to (scrapes memory) gazario? or something that is supposedly a more old fashioned way of speaking. they always translate it as "that it is" or "that you are" or whatever....

'no da' is legal, sort of throwing the whole sentence around as one big noun phrase, like,

Hi ga aru. "There's a fire"
Hi ga aru n(o) da. "The fact that there is a fire, exists."

You usually see it either dialectically or more in polite speech (as "n(o) desu"), like

Boku wa mizu ga hoshii n desu ga. "I'd like some water [please]"

comes out more polite than

Boku wa mizu ga hoshii desu. "I'd like some water"

or, not being a native speaker, "so I am told"

Knives wrote:How many .hack animes are there

Well there's:

.hack//SIGN(anime)
the four .hack PS2 games
.hack//LIMINALITY(ova)
.hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet(manga and anime)

I'm not sure what Oro means, but more information on the "de gozaru,"
is avalible at: http://www.dubreview.com/ki_ks.php

(They interviewed several of the RK voice actors and such, and the ADR director covered that question)

Its probably just a speech thing. Like 'ano', 'ara', or 'eeto'. Like the english equivalent of "uh".

Just a guess though.

Oh, 'de gozaru' .. okay. It's an antiquated/affected form of 'to be' which persists today as 'gozaimasu' (which is the polite form and about the only common way it is still used).