Thread by @Herms98

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai ep.27: I suppose I’ve just been spoiled by the last few weeks, but this felt underwhelming, without much sense of speed in a fight that hinges on it. But there’s still some good bits in there. 3/5 #DragonQuest #ep27

Actually, like with ep.15 I found this one better on rewatch. Maybe animation just looks better on my phone? Although I kind of doubt it.

Galdandy and Borahorn’s defeats in the manga. In the anime, Galdandy’s is a blink or you’ll miss it affair, and Borahorn’s is mostly bloodless.

With his tusks gone, Borahorn looks like a big blue dog

Borahorn’s breath attack has the extremely on-the-nose name “Cold Breath” (using those exact English words), which for whatever reason the CR subs change to the slightly less on-the-nose “Glacial Breath”.

The DQ games have a lot of similar breath techniques, one of which is localized in English as C-C-Cold Breath, so maybe they changed Borahorn’s Cold Breath to avoid confusion? Although if anything it’s more confusing this way.

Weaponsmith Lon Beruk (ロン・ベルク) previously had his name spelt as “Lon Berk” in the Dai Perfect Book, but the kanzenban manga release and CR subs use “Beruk”. The kana spelling matches the German surname Romberg (ロンベルク), although this might be a coincidence.

Frustratingly, there are several notable people with the surname Romberg, but they seem to mostly be composers, with no apparent weaponry connect anywhere. Maybe Sanjo was just a fan of one of them?

Now I’m imagining a really bulky version of Hyunckel

Larhart’s technique is the Haken Distall (ハーケンディストール; the spelling “Haken Distall” comes from the Dai Perfect Book). Haken is the German word for “hook”, while “distall” is possibly a corruption of “distortion”, or just comes from “distal” (the opposite of proximal)

The CR subs localize this as “Sunder Claw”. Presumably claw comes from haken=hook, meaning sunder stands in for distall. Distal=distant, which relates to sunder via the idea of separation...I guess? It’s not in the games, so I’m not sure why they didn’t keep the original name.

It’s a standard battle manga phenomenon, but I still question the physics behind an attack that shatters his armor and cracks the ground behind him, but leaves his actual body unscarred.

Next week: Episode of Baran!