Talk:Solf J. Kimblee

I'm not sure how the procedure works for editing pages, but this one in particular seemed under represented, so I filled it out, while keeping as much of the original entry intact as possible. If I've done something wrong I appologize, and you can feel free to undo what I've done.

~Balladbird

Crimson Lotus note
The word Gurren in Japanese does include "Crimson" as one of its possible translations. However, the characters used to write Kimblee's moniker in Japanese (紅蓮) translates best to "Red Lotus" or "Crimson Lotus". Viz manga is the first official translation to recognize this, as the only group so far to see the name in Japanese text, and has called Kimblee the "Red Lotus Alchemist". One wonders if "Crimson Lotus" might be more apropos for this site, since it combines the names and remains accurate, but we'll stick with Red Lotus for everything but 2003 anime pages. CorbeauKarasu 16:38, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

spelling
Shouldn't it be spelled Solf J. Kimblee? Waterdrop95 06:08, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

Solf is the correct first name, since Arakawa has specified that the J doesn't stand for anything, I'd refrain from putting a period after it and we're still waiting to see if "Kimblee" isn't a FUNimation mistransliteration, as I don't believe that name exists anywhere. The most likely proper spelling is "Kimbley". But I think we'll wait for confirmation from a Brotherhood eyecatch. CorbeauKarasu 11:50, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

I've seen it spelled "Kimblee" in FMA Brotherhood in episode one a couple times. I'll change it to Solf J. Kimblee for now and you can undo it if you don't approve.

Waterdrop95 03:23, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

The thing about that is that not even the subtitles are always right. They are, in fact, wrong some of the time. As far as character names, the only even remotely trustworthy source aside from actual english text in the Japanese version of the manga is the eyecatch that appears in each episode. I refrained from moving this as it has been moved so many times before. CorbeauKarasu 03:34, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

As much as I hate this spelling, the eyecatch has it - right down to the period after the J (even though Arakawa says it doesn't stand for anything). I've replaced all the misspellings I could find and added a few new redirects to ward off confusion.CorbeauKarasu 18:27, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

Excessive linking
Do we really need to make every character's name a link every time that character is mentioned? Right now, there are a couple of paragraphs in this article which contain four separate links to Scar. It looks kind of ridiculous. I think we should only link important terms the first time they are mentioned in an article. That seems to be the way of doing things on Wikipedia. Linking pages together is fun, but the goal of a wiki is not to have as many blue words as possible. --Michaelbillings 09:08, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

You're right. This page has been quite a mess for some time and it's one of the next few I plan to rewrite entirely. However, since it looks as though unmarked spoilers from the next chapter have begun leaking in, I'll have to do that after I've actually read it. I wonder if we should institute a policy of holding off on adding new chapter information until an actual English scanlation is made public... CorbeauKarasu 12:03, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't really follow the manga, but speaking of spoilers... what is the wiki's policy on marking them? Most of the information on the site could be considered spoilers, if we're going to worry about spoiling the second episode of the anime for people who just started watching, but I hardly ever see spoiler warnings around here. --Michaelbillings 08:13, December 11, 2009 (UTC)

Alchemy Explaination
Is anyone able to cite where the information that explains that a the a sun represents gold, a moon silver etc comes from? 86.3.158.20 23:11, February 19, 2010 (UTC)

Alchemical symbolism in FMA is based rather heavily on pre-existing alchemical and hermenteutic documentation. The sun symbol on Kimblee's hand and the crescent moon both match up perfectly with commonly known symbols in alchemy corresponding to gold and silver. There are symbol dictionaries online you can check, that's what I did. It's really interesting because a TON of arrays make more sense with this real-world background information. CorbeauKarasu 01:24, February 20, 2010 (UTC)