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Yes, the "fruit juice" made me giggle to no end. XD Then in the movie he suddenly drank wine...
As for Bakura's name? Okay, lessee... "Ryou" means "Understanding," however, I'm having a bit of a hard time finding the other two characters, the ones that make up "Bakura." I wasn't able to find any matching characters to his name of "Ba," "Baku," "Kura," or "Ra," which are the only four possible characters in his name, since there are only two kanji. However that was when looking up in my kanji dictionary alphabetically. I could attempt to go by stroke count and keep digging, since my dictionary doesn't always provide all the possible sounds for each character, especially when involved in names, but that would take quite a while, especially since I'm not very good at counting strokes yet. Chances are they wouldn't be in there anyway, since names often have characters in them that are no longer in common use, and my dictionary only has the 2000 most common kanji in it. I highly doubt that the characters in his name "don't exist," but rather, are simply uncommon, and mainly only used in names now-a-days. I'll try some hunting via internet as well; I might be able to come up with something at least... ^^;;
(Edit smile Okay, found out the first character is "Baku" and the second is "Ra," however I still have yet to find their meanings.
(Edit smile Ah-hah! It looks like the reason "Baku" is so uncommon, is because it has a really obscure meaning: "an imaginary beast that was thought to eat copper, iron and nightmares." ~referenced from http://www.kanjinetworks.com/mnetwork/MAK.html
Apparently it's some form of dog beast...
(Edit smile Yay, found "Ra!" ^^ It hid from me because it looks like "Ra" is an extremely uncommon reading for the character; it is usually pronounced as Ryou, Rou, Yoi, Yoshi, or Yaya. Anyway, it means "well," "good," "nice," or "correct." ~referanced from http://www.webdico.com/kan/kantxtg34.html
So I guess if you put his complete name together as "Bakura Ryou," it would mean, "Kind Dog-Beast Thing (Baku) Who is Understanding." Heh, sounds kinda like Inu Yasha to me. XD The only reason I thought of that is because of what you posted... razz

XD;; You're welcome. *eats cookie* I was actually pretty curious myself since you brought it up... XD;;
And yeah... kanji names can be pretty on crack... like if I remember correctly, Jounouchi's full name means, "Among this Castle be Kind" or something weird like that. XD;; Oh, and "Mutou" means "Military Wysteria." XD
And well, "Bakura" is really the weird part of the name, which is the family name, so I don't think his parents really had much of a choice on that part. XD;; The name they gave him, "Ryou," simply means "Understanding," which isn't so weird considering Bakura's personality.

Hmm... I remember doing research on that once actually... if I remember correctly, in fuedal Japan only nobles could have family names. Everyone else just went by their first names or their job titles. Then when a new era came... the Meiji Restoration I believe, it suddenly became law that people had family names. So a lot of people just made acronyms (would that be the right word...?) on their towns and jobs, forming them into family names. Others simply made up random crap and were all, "Okay, that's my last name! X3"
But I like your Ringo idea better. XD
...and yeah... when I first looked up the kanji in Mutou, I had to look up wysteria as well. XD;;;

Here, I looked on Wikipedia because I'm lame like that, and it explains much better than I did. XD;;
"Until the Meiji restoration, Japanese common people (people other than kuge and samurai) had no surnames, and when necessary, used a substitute such as the name of their birthplace. For example, Ichirō born in Asahi mura (Asahi village) in the province of Musashi would say "Ichirō from Asahi-mura of Musashi". Merchants were named after their brands (for example, Denbei, the owner of Sagamiya, would be Sagamiya Denbei), and farmers were named after their fathers (for example, Isuke, whose father was Genbei, would be "Isuke, son of Genbei"). After the Meiji restoration, the government ordered all commoners to assume surnames in addition to their given names: many people adopted historical names, while others simply made names up or had a local sage make up a surname. This explains, in part, the large number of surnames in Japan, as well as their great diversity of spellings and pronunciations." ~from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_names
*just imagined poor Bakura attempting to ingest copper* XD;;
And... I think skinny, pale Bakura is more attractive... while I do like tan skin, Thief King has kind of a stupid look to his face half-the-time, and his hair isn't as long and smexy. D: Plus, Bakura's face is just so much cuter than Thief King's!

Thieves interest me, but I've always been more into the good guys. XD;; I think the only major anime I love where my favorite character is a villain is Yami no Matsuei... and while my favorite character, Muraki, does kill people and stuff, he's more of a villain because he's just plain-crazy, rather than having world-ruling ambitions or anything like that. XD;;
Gravy... <3 But yeah, that goes into the good guy preferance for me again; I think Bakura Ryou, the sweet, innocent one, is better-looking than Thief King, the... well, thief. XD;; Maybe I just subconciously think that because I'm drawn to good guys? o.o And maybe you just subconciously think Thief King is hotter because you're drawn to thieves? o.o Quite interesting...
And yes, I've seen that. XD "When we're poooiiiisoning the pigeonnns in the park~!" <3

Ha, I'm kind of like that as well, though I never say "he's mine" since I'm asexual. XD;; But in the Pokemon group I'm in, everyone in the group is obsessed with Musashi and Koujiro. (Jessie and James) I'm like the only person in the group who they're not my favorite character; my favorite character is Takeshi/Brock. And everyone else is like, "...okay, have fun with that! We love Team Rocket! *squeal*" XD;;
And... while I do think Atem can be hot, I really don't care for him much... Kaiba, he's my second-favorite character, but Atem/Yami no Yuugi... XP And... someone actually likes... Shaadi...? *dies* Honda is awsome though, I'm glad to hear that he has some fangirls. XD
And those online marriage liscenses really are creepy! O_o

Ugh... I refuse to watch the new episodes... I was so depressed too, because in that Pokemon group I'm in, we would always talk about the Lucario movie before it even came out in Japan, and we were all excited because Mew was in it again and all the characters dressed up medieaval-like. But when it came out here, it was after the voice actors had gotten replaced, so I assumed it used the new voice actors. I refused to watch it, even though I did really wanna see it. But then one day it was on Cartoon Network, and I happened to catch a glimpse of it, and I immediatly reccognized that they were using the original voices. I was so excited that I looked for the next time it would be on and recorded it. X3 It's so awsome to finally meet someone else who likes Takeshi though!
Wow... just about everyone I know hates Shaadi. XD;; (I do...) But let me guess... after you got the second volume back, she wouldn't give you the third volume, right? XD;;

{~} And I told him "Sorry, I only like the DANGEROUS ones" {~}

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