Talk:List of Ōkami characters

Queen Himiko
Should it be mentioned that she and Nagi can aid Amaterasu during the battle with Yami? Modem 05:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Japanese names and pictures
I am in the process of adding the Japanese names of the characters and character pictures into the article. You will notice in some places I have used hiragana or katakana where kanji would normally be used. This is because those are the official spellings used both within the game and in the official Okami artbook. For example, when you fight Orochi for the first time, and his artwork scroll appears, it does not say "八岐の大蛇", it says ヤ"マタノオロチ". This applies to both the JAP and US versions of the game as far as I know, and is also used in the artbook. PiccoloNamek 10:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I am now having doubts. Should I use the name as it appears in-game, or the "proper" name as it would appear in a normal context? For example, within the context game and art book, Ninetails'name is given as "キュ ウビ", but in other circumstances it would be "九尾". I am unsure.PiccoloNamek 00:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hayabusa
I made a small edit to the entry on Hayabusa; I was playing the game last night, and Hayabusa/Chu was referred to as female at least twice by Issun while explaining how she traded places with the original Hayabusa, so I changed a few pronouns to reflect that. 72.14.125.25 19:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Tell me
TTN, what gives you the right to just decide that yourself? (Well, technically, you do have the right to be bold, but that's beside the point.) Unless there was some kind of consensus reached, I'm sure I will be removing the redirect soon. A character article is not at all uncommon or without precedent for any game, anime, movie, book, or whatever. This page allows us to go into more detail and even discuss the mythology and basis behind the characters in Okami. Yes, it needs some cleaning up, (which I have been slowly but surely working on, removing cruft, adding in the Japanese names, improving grammar, etc.) but that was no reason to scrap the whole thing.

I have several goals for this article that will make it even more worth keeping:


 * Remove all of fancruft and unsourced material.
 * Improve the grammar, spelling and puncuation.
 * Reduce the overall length of the article (For example, I don't think all of the canine warriors need to be listed individually.)
 * Add images where necessary.
 * Add all of the kanji for the Japanese names in.
 * Some discussion of the mythology behind the characters (and there is a lot even for minor characters) with links to the appropriate articles.

Many, many, if not most video game articles have character lists, many of which are very high quality, or even featured. There is no reason this one cannot or should not have one. On the other hand, if nobody else makes a stink about it, or if most agree with you, I will let it go. I am not unreasonable, nor do I have any particular attachment to this article. Looking at the Okami article, I can certainly see things from your perspective as well.PiccoloNamek 07:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Common practice is not the precedent in this case. Character articles have to contain real world information or be deemed necessary. If you can add real world information to the article, then it will be fine. Note that this actually needs to be from a source that directly says "Orochi is based off of the legend of the same name". Without that, it is original research no matter how obvious it seems. Otherwise, they are one game characters, so there should be no need to cover them outside of the prose in the main article. TTN 12:36, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * That will, of course, take time. How about this. You go ahead and do what you need to do. If somebody else objects, they can argue their case. In the meantime, I will copy the article into a sandbox in my user space and work on it when my schedule permits. Eventually, I will submit it for scrutiny. In its current state, I actually think it should go after giving it further thought.PiccoloNamek 15:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * That works for me. If you want to copy it over now, I can leave a hidden message here and in the character section of the main article to tell people to head over there to help with it. TTN 15:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, I added it at .PiccoloNamek 16:58, 28 October 2007 (UTC)