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Sonic Triple Trivia
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:29 am
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Trivia 1:
In the Japanese manual there are 3 vocal theme lyrics listed on it as
ソニック&テイルスB.G.M.迷曲選
Sonic & Tails BGM: Odd but Interesting Song Selection
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Song 1:
スピンコースターとまれない
The Spin Coaster Can't Stop
スピンコースターは しる 地雷をふんでもはしる
The Spin Coaster can't stop. It can't stop even if you run over land mines!
とげが あってもはしる まだはしる とまれない
The Spin Coaster still goes even if there are spikes. It still goes. It can't stop!
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Song 2:
ボスが出たゾ
There's the boss
ボスがでたぞ
There's the boss
それそれ それそれ それそれ それ それそれ
There there, there there, there there, there, there there.
ボスがでたぞ どんがらがった どっこいしょ
There's the boss. It's all over the place. Oh yeah!
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Song 3:
ジャングリラにきた
I'm in Jungri-la
ジャングリラにきてから それから ドーシタ
You came to Jungri-La, and then what will you do?
シャングリラにきた木がおおいぞ
I came to Jungri-La, the trees are so big
シャングリラにきた 木がとってもおおいぞ
I came to Jungri-La, the trees are so many
ジャングリラにきた
I'm in Jungri-la
ジャングリラにきてしまった
I came to Jungri-La.
ジャングリラにきてしまった
I came to Jungri-La.
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Trivia 2:
If you paid attention you'll notice I romanized "ジャングリラ" (jangurira) as Jungri-la. Turns out It's a literal pun on Shangri-La (shangurira). The deep forgotten jungle in James Hilton's book, Lost Horizon. Literally Jungle+Shangri-la.
The pun works really well in japanese as the difference between the words is just the dakuten (the quote-like mark) on the first character:
シャングリラ - Shangri-La
ジャングリラ - Jungri-La
So, Meta Jungri-La it is!
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Trivia 3
In the archie comics the zone was named "Meta Jungura". It turns out they used the US manual as the reference and the font they used (ITC Anna) on the titles has LI extremely close so it became META JUNGⵡRA ZONE
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Special thanks to RLan for the scans of the manual in high res and to Windii for the help with the translations!
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