When Odin does Zentetzuken; what do the characters say?

[Odaisn]

What do the characters say in "Zentetzuken?" The characters that appear everytime he slashes the opponent?

[Lord Xehanort]

Those are Norse Runes which read, 'Zantetsuken'. When Seifer kills Odin, the runes read, 'Zantetsuken Reverse'.

[DJZen]

And Zantetsuken is Japanese for "steel slice sword". Or was that iron? I don't actually speak Japanese..... :eep:

[Mo-Nercy]

In Chinese characters (which is almost formal japanese characters, sort of) it reads Steel Something Blade. I'm not that good at chinese anyhow.

[Zante]

Steel Bladed Sword perhaps? That's how his attack is called in FFVII

[DJZen]

I've only ever heard that it means "slice" or "cutting".

[Polaris]

It's horrible I hate when Odin appears!!!!!! I was so happy to defeat that mosnter by myslef and ta-daa he appears! He only apprears when I am not in trouble... I was so fine defeating Seifer and he appears... why?????? And after that his attacks are so unuseless!

[MJN SEIFER]

Thats because it's not Odin... Seifer reverse the attack. and Odin dies. The guy that appears after that is Gilgamesh the NGUBG from FFV

[Shockwave Pulsar]

I read somewhere the correct translation is "Iron Cutting Sword"

[Kilika]

where can i find info on the legend of odin or something? what type of mythology is it?

[Zante]

Odin is a god of war and death, but also the god of poetry and wisdom. He hung for nine days, pierced by his own spear, on the world tree. Here he learned nine powerful songs, and eighteen runes. Odin can make the dead speak to question the wisest amongst them. His hall in Asgard is Valaskjalf ("shelf of the slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located. From this throne he observes all that happens in the nine worlds. The tidings are brought to him by his two raven Huginn and Muninn. He also resides in Valhalla, where the slain warriors are taken.

[Sir Bahamut]

I read somewhere the correct translation is "Iron Cutting Sword"

This is indeed the correct, literal translation.

[Jolts]

Okay, then what's it say when Seifer does that to Odin at the end of Disc3 (if you have Odin)?

[Sir Bahamut]

Ah, I can't remember. I'll try and check it up later.

[Shockwave Pulsar]

I believe it says "Zantetzuken Counter" or something like that.

[Jolts]

How could adding only one character change it that much? Then again, I know very little about the Japanese language, so I can only wait until it is absolutely confirmed to be true or false.

[Zante]

I'm not sure about this, but I think the japanese language has characters for whole words, not letters.

[Jolts]

Those are Norse Runes which read, 'Zantetsuken'. When Seifer kills Odin, the runes read, 'Zantetsuken Reverse'.
If this is correct, then I found my answer :D.

[Sir Bahamut]

I think that is correct, but they aren't Runes, they are japanese symbols.

[Jolts]

Squaresoft could have just added the English translation in parenthesis at the bottom of the screen, but no, they had to be all "we don't like you, so you get text you can't read." :lol:

[DJZen]

I'm not sure about this, but I think the japanese language has characters for whole words, not letters.

It has both. We do the same to a lesser extent with characters like &, $, %, #, and @. There's also the symbols for copyright, patent and trademark which I don't know the ascii code for so I'm not going to bother entering. Japanese just has a lot MORE symbols for more common words. They stole the idea from the Chinese. Because of this, anyone who can read Chinese can also read Japanese kanji. Anyone who can read Japanese fluently can read a very limited amount of Chinese.

[Jolts]

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Wonderful character map :D.

[Silent Warrior]

Check this out for scandinavian runes: http://www.susning.nu/Runor
A pretty image a short way down. The site is in Swedish.

Cripes, I almost went berserk on your *** for declaring those squiggles norse runes! :radred: