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.
Made of ceramics and
sometimes concrete, this trap is largely used to bait mollusks and crustaceans in
general.
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:
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.
This blue-ringed octopus has been spotted lying on a beach near Melbourne, Australia.
Those octopuses are not especially known for their aggressiveness. On the contrary, they tend to stay hidden under rocks at the bottom of the sea.
The real risk is for a kid to find this creature and think “hey, why not play with it ? It seems funny and spongy!”. Indeed, their venom is the strongest of all among the cephalopod creatures, able to kill a human easily.
