It has selkies, not mermaids, but it's one of my touchstone films about the sea.
And my interest was already piqued.
Splash is another, because I saw it at such a young age that all the romantic comedy bypassed me completely and what I retained was the myth and the metamorphosis
I wore out the tape I loved it for those reasons. And naked Daryl Hannah. Yes, I was lecherous, even as a five year-old.
Where did the names "Boschen" and "Nesuko" come from?
Nesuko's name used to be "Nes," which I got from the acronym for Nintendo Entertainment System--remember, I came up with her when I was thirteen or fourteen. At that point the happiest day of my life was the Christmas morning I was given my first Nintendo. In fact, that day still ranks pretty high.
A few years later, I began noticing "Nes" was a pretty common name in a lot of the Sci-Fi I was reading. So, since I noticed nearly every other Japanese woman's name ended in "-ko", and I was just becoming interested in Japanese culture, she became Nesuko.
Boschen used to be spelled "Boshen," and it was just what he looked like to me when I drew him. I might have been influenced by the bothans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothan#Bothan) from Star Wars. When I was informed that "Boshen" was an actual name, I changed it slightly, adding the "c" maybe also to vaguely reference Hieronymous Bosch.
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And my interest was already piqued.
Splash is another, because I saw it at such a young age that all the romantic comedy bypassed me completely and what I retained was the myth and the metamorphosis
I wore out the tape I loved it for those reasons. And naked Daryl Hannah. Yes, I was lecherous, even as a five year-old.
Where did the names "Boschen" and "Nesuko" come from?
Nesuko's name used to be "Nes," which I got from the acronym for Nintendo Entertainment System--remember, I came up with her when I was thirteen or fourteen. At that point the happiest day of my life was the Christmas morning I was given my first Nintendo. In fact, that day still ranks pretty high.
A few years later, I began noticing "Nes" was a pretty common name in a lot of the Sci-Fi I was reading. So, since I noticed nearly every other Japanese woman's name ended in "-ko", and I was just becoming interested in Japanese culture, she became Nesuko.
Boschen used to be spelled "Boshen," and it was just what he looked like to me when I drew him. I might have been influenced by the bothans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothan#Bothan) from Star Wars. When I was informed that "Boshen" was an actual name, I changed it slightly, adding the "c" maybe also to vaguely reference Hieronymous Bosch.