The Octupus Pot in Splatoon

twero:

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

(via calamity-death)

Source: twero

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