The Last Guardian

• First, if you find any word missmatch or grammatical errors please report them to me. I have checked the story over for spelling and grammatical mistakes, but it is possible that some have slipped by my notice. You know things like 'there' when I should have written 'their'.

• Character Names :

  In formal Japanese, Family names are placed before the person's name.

  	Orig. Name	Alter Ego	NA Name
  Main Characters	Tsukino Usagi	Sailor Moon	Serena
  	Mizuno Ami	Sailor Mercury	Amy Anderson
  	Hino Rei	Sailor Mars	Raye Hino
  	Kino Makoto	Sailor Jupiter	Lita
  	Aino Minako	Sailor Venus	Mina
  	Chiba Mamoru	Tuxedo Kamen	Darien/Tuxedo Mask
  Minor Characters or references	Chibi Usa	- * -	Reeny
  	Kumada Yuuichirou	- * -	Chad
  	Furuhata Motoki	- * -	Andrew
  	Furuhata Unazuki	- * -	Lizzy
  	Tsukino Shingo	- * -	Sammy
  	Sakurada Haruna	- * -	Ms. Haruna

  If you want to find out more about the original names, or original attacks etc. I suggest you check the Sailor Moon FAQ or head over to Hitoshi Doi's great Sailor Moon pages....

• Honourifics and Family References

  An honourific is added when you talk to someone : eg. If I was talking to Usagi, I would call her 'Usagi-chan' or 'Tsukino-san'

  As a general guide :

  • -san : general use
  • -chan : usually used between young girls
  • -kun : usually used between men of the same 'station' who are friends (a casual term)
  • -sama : used to acknowledge someone who you consider your superior, or worthy of great respect
  • -sensei : added to a teacher's name

  Now there are exceptions :

  • Usagi refers to Mamoru as 'Mamo-chan' and he refers to her as 'Usako'
  • The group refers to Makoto as 'Mako-chan'
  • In SM-S Professor Tomoe refers Kaolinite as 'Kaolinite-kun' even though she is a woman.
  • If you don't use the honourific you are either very close to the person you are conversing with or you are insulting them. Rei, for example does not use the honourific -chan when she talks with Usagi because of their close friendship.
  • An honourifc is never used when refering to yourself

  Family Members :

  • Onii-san : Older Brother (can even be shortened to nii-san)
  • Otouto-san : Younger Brother
  • Otou-sama : Father

  Now there are more, but I think this is all the references I use in the story. Note the use of the honourific on family members reference as well. Unazuki sometimes refers to her older brother Motoki as Onii-chan. Usagi also refers to Motoki as Motoki-oniisan (Essentially 'Big brother Motoki') even though there is no formal relation between them. This is common is Japan when refering to a friend who is older than yourself.

• Military References

  Japan's Military forces are known as 'Self-Defence Forces' and as such are forbidden to be deployed outside of Japan. They can't even participate in UN peacekeeping missions because it is in conflict with the 'Self-Defence' charter. While the military power Japan possesses is considerable, it is still merely for the defence of the Home Islands. Japan maintains a security treaty with the United States, who would be ready to fill the role of aggressor and intimidate any who why try to militarily threaten Japan.

  Now to add realism to my story (Yeah I know it's fiction and all that... ), whenever the military characters are conversing, I have them using 'call-signs'. For example pilots pick some cool call-sign like 'Razor' or something and instead of by name, they are refered to by their call sign. Call signs are also applied to aircraft or bases, for example a flight of five airplanes might be refered to as 'blackbird flight', with each of the planes given a number; blackbird one, blackbird two, etc. In my story the central base airport is called 'Starbase'

  Readers will notice that the helicopters and some weapons I reference are all American designations. This is because Japan purchases a great deal of hardware from the US, then modifies them for their own use. By using the US designations those who are familiar with the name know what I'm talking about. If your not familiar with them, I'm sorry but I don't have a scanner yet to put any pictures here for your benefit.

• Geographical References

  Again, for realism I've tried to use actual locations within Minato-ku where the anime is set (Juuban is a part of Minato-ku). So if you have a map or atlas of Tokyo you should be able to find the references I'm talking about.

• Metric Measurements

  Sorry !! But being Canadian I love the SI measurement units .... Well if you don't use SI here's a few conversions to imperial for you :

  • There is 3.28 ft/m
  • It's about 0.63 mi/km
  • (9/5)*Degrees Celcius + 32 = Degrees Fahrenheit (I think...)

• Canadian English

  You'll notice that I spell 'honour' with a 'u' rather than 'honor', 'centre' rather than 'center'... That's because Canadian English is a slight derivative of British English... So don't tell me I've got a story full of mistakes, I wrote it that way !! The only time I use 'center' is in the arcade title 'Crown Game Center'

• This list may be expanding depending on the feedback I receive....

Last revision 14 Apr 2000 Please send email to : snake@interlog.com

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