To quickly follow up on our call:
I wasn't able to find much on Josh's final name in Japanese, and in some cases it might be Horai instead of Jurai or something? I can't imagine a reporter mixing that up though. I tried reading Japanese wikipedia as well and it doesn't help much, all I have is romaji sources. The whole tomb theory seems fringe enough as to not intentionally be an influence on Tenchi Muyo.
Now I did look up the kanji for the Jurai family in TM though, which is spelled 樹雷. The first one is a more complicated version of 木, meaning tree or trees. The next one is 雷, thunder/lightning. (Both are the Chinese readings; in the Japanese readings it would be ki-kaminari.) I'm pretty sure that this is a plot related name, given the energy beams coming from the trees.
Which is not to say that there aren't tree metaphors we can use if we want to make the connection.
... yeah, I know much more about Christian mythology than Hawaiian mythology.
I wasn't able to find much on Josh's final name in Japanese, and in some cases it might be Horai instead of Jurai or something? I can't imagine a reporter mixing that up though. I tried reading Japanese wikipedia as well and it doesn't help much, all I have is romaji sources. The whole tomb theory seems fringe enough as to not intentionally be an influence on Tenchi Muyo.
Now I did look up the kanji for the Jurai family in TM though, which is spelled 樹雷. The first one is a more complicated version of 木, meaning tree or trees. The next one is 雷, thunder/lightning. (Both are the Chinese readings; in the Japanese readings it would be ki-kaminari.) I'm pretty sure that this is a plot related name, given the energy beams coming from the trees.
Which is not to say that there aren't tree metaphors we can use if we want to make the connection.
... yeah, I know much more about Christian mythology than Hawaiian mythology.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto