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[Episode 3, time index 48:13]: While upgrading "Ikariya", May and Kazuya use the term "kondensa". Pioneer USA translated it as "condenser", what it really is in electronics terms is a ceramic capacitor, a two-lead part used to store a charge. It appears that the Japanese borrowed the word before it was renamed.
We are getting a little off topic here but as I recall the early electricity experimenter who studied the subject was named Leyden. He called his apparatus a "Leyden Jar". It consisted of a glass jar with foil on the inside and outside which would accumulate a static charge. He referred to this as "condensing". Several years ago there came a movement to rename familiar terms in the electronics industry. Hertz was decided to make more sense than CPS (cycles per second) and Capacitor was deemed a better choice than condenser.
The quote is thanks to John Ferrell from the PICList, an email list that discusses and experiments using Microchip Corp's PIC microcontroller line.
[Volume one]: The DVD starts up in "Nanbara's Room". You can skip this by pressing the "title" or "title skip" button on the remote to go to the real menu. You can also select "Mr. Laaaaarge!" and press fast forward until you get to the real menu.
Another interesting tidbit is that the US DVD's menus have voice-overs in English and Japansese (but no subs), depending on which language setting you have set in the menu. If you use the "title" or "title skip" button to skip the Nanbara's Room the voice-over is not used.
As this menu setup is said to mimicing the first Region 2 Japanese DVD and that it only shows up on the first DVD, it will hopefully be conveniently missing on the next two DVDs.
[Characters]: For those that don't know, Nanbara appears to be a blatant pull from El Hazard's Katsuhiko (sp?) Jinnai.
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Updated: 2001 August 20
Created: 2001 April 2