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The Octupus Pot in Splatoon

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Today I was translating a Splatoon webcomic and revising some terms and names of places to be translated. This time I crossed with the famous Octo Valley. It has a easy translation, but I always look to the Japanese term to have a second option and I found something very curious that I didn’t know!

In Japanese, the place is called Takotsubo Valley (タコツボバレー) and Takotsubo means “Octopus Pot”. I did some search and I found that Octopus Pot is an well-known Octo trap used in Japan.

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Made of ceramics and sometimes concrete, this trap is largely used to bait mollusks and crustaceans in general.

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I replayed the Octo Valley in order to find anything visual that connected to the Octo Pot, but I didn’t find anything. Nothing very obvious, at least. I realized something, instead:

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Aside the big octo structure here, if you look around you realized that the whole Octo Valley is a huge hole in the middle of the ocean. As it’s a giant pot itself, trapping the Octarians where we face them.

Source: The Japanese Wikipedia Article about Octopus Pot

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Titan, also known as the mermaid moon, is the largest satellite of Jupiter. It is the only known moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth where evidence of surface liquid has been found; however, the liquid on Titan is made of methane, not water. 

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“In a majority of cases, the subtle body of a departed ancestor/ghost attacks the person while in the mother’s womb at the embryonic stage. Even prior to conception, at the time of intercourse itself, the subtle body of the ancestor enters the body of the mother through her vagina and it impregnates the entire uterus with black energy.“

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Cuttlefish off the coast of Japan, species unknown.

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See how much it really “sucks” when a filmmaker invades the home of a sea creature straight out of many marine nightmares.
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Watch an octopus attack on a snorkeler kill – with cuteness

See how much it really “sucks” when a filmmaker invades the home of a sea creature straight out of many marine nightmares.

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Q:So we all know the Least Bittern, but is there say.... a Most Bittern?

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Least Bittern:

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MOST  BITTERN:

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