Capcom's Sushi Muse? - Kotaku Comments

Capcom's Sushi Muse?

Human Bomb — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:51:55 MDT

Someone's gonna get SO FIRED! Unless you get Okami Sushi to offer you your choice of two alternate lables. One featuring a spring roll dancing with the hashi, and the other with a giant poop shaped mound of wasabi.

Human Bomb

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horsekateer — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:33:09 MDT

WOLF SUSHI

horsekateer

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hoopesk2 — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:40:44 MDT

@Maldron: It's a pun, somehow it means both, which is why they used it for the game, 'cause she's a go-wolf.

hoopesk2

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Z33 — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:41:34 MDT

Switch from the gaming industry to the food industry.... I sense a sushi monoply in the making !!!! Packaged sushi is the worst.... tastes like eating soap... Fresh sushi FTW

Z33

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man in gauze is king ramses II, silly. — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:57:11 MDT

xD Nice one as usual, Owen.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

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Cloral — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:32:32 MDT

I remember seeing this like a year ago at the TJs near where I live when I was still playing Okami. I got a pack, and it wasn't very good.

Cloral

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GodKiller — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:37:33 MDT

haha, good one ;)

GodKiller

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Chef — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:46:06 MDT

bah - looks too 'shopped; need to blur and blend it more to match the photo.

Chef

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accioaaron — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:06:25 MDT

After eating nothing but a 100 piece box of those Okami sushi's, just seeing the word makes me vomit in my mouth a little.

And no joke, Owen, you work a block from my house. Near the Event Center. Visit me :)

accioaaron

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13xforever — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:57:40 MDT

@Kilian, @shikaningen: bravo, those are the things that I wanted to say myself \(^o^)/

13xforever

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Mactheridon — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:15:55 MDT

OK thabk you now I'll have to buy OKami and play it!

ARE U HAPPY NOW???!!!

Mactheridon

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maraxusofk — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:02:47 MDT

this made me actually lol in rl.

maraxusofk

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RavingRabbid — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:34:02 MDT

Until I went into the patent caves and saw the Kotaku patent, I never knew the word from language X (I don't know which) translates into English as "luster".

RavingRabbid

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FP Shindokie — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:31:24 MDT

haha thats great stuff owen. i didnt expect that lol

FP Shindokie

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Spoony Bard — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:44:32 MDT

Owen - thanks for the laugh. I needed it. :)

Spoony Bard

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Gloibin — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:14:48 MDT

Bravo :lol:

Gloibin

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Parsifal — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:33:04 MDT

@Atheist Jew: Yeah, by whatever poor pixel-monkey got contracted to make the label, those dastards*not a typo*!

Parsifal

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Atheist Jew — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:02:52 MDT

That looks 'shopped, Owen!

Atheist Jew

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Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:39:57 MDT

OH SHI-

Hmm... sushi sensations? Now I wanna play some Okami myself too...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

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MelodyKitn — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:42:05 MDT

Was quite hilarious... till I realize that I miss Trader Joe's and the mochi ice cream and other random foods I'd buy from there on a lazy weekend and become all saddened because none exist here.

(And their bags are awesome which we still use here to lug our groceries with)

MelodyKitn

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Pammeh — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:16:00 MDT

Yeah, I LOL'ed. :) Too bad Okami sushi tastes like shit...ugh. It'd be too bad if that was "inspiration" for an amazing game :P

Pammeh

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SinEater — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:12:26 MDT

Not even a chortle. A chuckle? Completely out of the question. Find some news, Owen.

Though it is good to know that TJ's has cheap sushi in large quantities. You know, for when Nozawa isn't affordable.

SinEater

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shikaningen — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:08:07 MDT

御上 okami one who is higher
狼 ookami Japanese wolf
大神 ooMIkami Principal deity of Japanese shintoism, full name being 天照大神 (amaterasu oomikami - "great god who shines upon the heavens")

That's right, 大神 is normally pronounced, "oomikami". However, the mi is idiopathic, meaning that neither of the two kanji constituting the phrase can be thought to really have this reading. The 大 has the readings 'dai', 'tai', 'oo', 'ookii' 'ooki' and 'ooi' (there are certainly more in the form of nanori like ten or so) and 神 has the readings 'shin', 'jin', 'kan', 'kou', and 'kami'. So you see, a child who didn't know the name had a reading inconsistent with the readings of the individual kanji composing the compound, might pronounce it "ookami", which means "wolf".

And that is the pun of the title of the game O(o)kami.

Some were saying that it was oukami. This is incorrect. That is to say, おおかみ not おうかみ. Not all long O sounds are produced by う lengthening. And there is most certainly a difference in pronunciation between the two, if the speaker is feeling a bit diligent.

shikaningen

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lewdev — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:00:53 MDT

I call fake! The image looks too fake.

lewdev

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djricekcn — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:54:12 MDT

@djricekcn: btw, the Okami game is a word play. They mean "wolf", but the way they spell it means "big god" "extreme god" etc in that sense

djricekcn

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djricekcn — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:49:31 MDT

@Maldron: 狼 means wolf, which is pronounced "Oukami"...the "O" is pronounced a "Ou" "Oh". in this one, i don't think it means "The Higher One" like it said cause it doesn't really make sense. I think this Okami is Mamasan / Landlady one, which would make more sense with sushi. This is written 女将, and is Pronounced "Okami" where the "O" is like pronounced....hmm the only explanation I can think of is "half way of Ou/Oh"

djricekcn

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crashlanding — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:37:53 MDT

HAHA nice! Now I know why I was always hungry when I played Okami.

Trader Joe's is the shizz! Best completely not healthy snack in that store? Pirates Booty! Get a bag, then witness how impossible it is to stop before you finish the WHOLE THING *burp*

crashlanding

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Shad0X — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:58:49 MDT

is that a joke or is that real? :D

Shad0X

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lynxij — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:23:29 MDT

LOL, that was hilarious!

lynxij

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Kilian — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:12:34 MDT

@Zerozaki Ishiki:
Ah! Beaten to it. That's what I get for too much fact-checking. hehe~

Anyways, I bow to you and your ability to type the kanji for wolf.

Kilian

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Kilian — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:09:57 MDT

@cjlopez:

What Yuki said is true. Now, to set the record straight-

"Ookami", when written with a single kanji ('hand' radical with 'good') means wolf. And sorry, my japanese wordpro hates this kanji evidently as it doesn't have it, otherwise I'd include it here.

"Ookami" (大神), written with 2 kanji, would be big/great god.

"Okami(san)" （おかみさん）means landlady.

There are also other ways to write "Okami" that I'm not familiar with. As Owen mentioned, "one who is higher" could indeed be "Okami" (お上), so there are a lot of ways to go with this reading. At any rate, I hope this helped to clear up some confusion/misconceptions about the wolf/god distinction.

Kilian

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Zerozaki Ishiki — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:06:37 MDT

@Maldron: @verrius:

狼 - wolf.
大神 - great god.

Both pronounced the same; the latter is the title of the game.

Zerozaki Ishiki

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mackincheese — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:57:50 MDT

Joke made my morning, sir! lol

mackincheese

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Evil Tortie's Mom — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:56:56 MDT

Hee! Funny stuff.

I thought the same when I was in Trader Joe's last week.

Never thought twice about the brand name of the sushi before that.

Evil Tortie's Mom

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swordfish2eva1 — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:52:20 MDT

@ludwigk: Dude it's a joke get over it

swordfish2eva1

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swordfish2eva1 — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:51:56 MDT

Damn Owen your just on fire

swordfish2eva1

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Dauragon C. Mikado — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:51:23 MDT

LOL

Owen, I love you man.

Dauragon C. Mikado

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Thorax — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:49:02 MDT

Oh, somebody's in trouble...

Thorax

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CruiseElroy — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:39:28 MDT

Owen's on his way to becoming my favorite editor around here, pretty funny stuff dude!

CruiseElroy

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bangbangblah — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:29:57 MDT

Hahaha

bangbangblah

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Snake726 — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:27:16 MDT

lol, well I laughed!

Snake726

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Yuki — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:59:35 MDT

@cjlopez: Nicht richtig.

Ookami means wolf, but with different kanji it would be great god.

Yuki

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TheRedBayonet — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:55:38 MDT

Haha, great find.

TheRedBayonet

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Maldron — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:53:52 MDT

@cjlopez: Right, that's what I thought. The whole point of the game was that she was Okami Amaterasu, the Wolf incarnation of the Sun Goddess.

Maldron

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Babylonian — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:50:05 MDT

@DarkDragonDave:

Hahaha, incredible.

Babylonian

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ludwigk — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:42:22 MDT

San Mateo isn't their supreme world command whatever, it's their US branch. Almost all of their development is in Japan. I've been to their San Mateo office in the past.

And, Okami sushi is all over the place here, its kind of weird.

ludwigk

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cjlopez — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:37:44 MDT

Okami: wolf
Ookami: big God

cjlopez

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KirbySS — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:33:03 MDT

Aaaah, I needed that.

KirbySS

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RedPhaazoid — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:30:47 MDT

that was the best weekend humor I've seen in quite some time. win.

RedPhaazoid

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lilsamuraijoe — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:22:12 MDT

Well kami means either paper or higher deity. The O is just a marker used to express politeness.

lilsamuraijoe

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Does Not Equal — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:21:21 MDT

@verrius: You're both right; depends on the writing.

Does Not Equal

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William "Killer" Shatner — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:19:41 MDT

I lol'd. You're awesome Owen.

William "Killer" Shatner

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eliasarriazolalujambio — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:06:40 MDT

Well, have to say they are good at maerketing strategies, altthough someone's really gonna get fired or something.

By the way, you're a really good observer haha

eliasarriazolalujambio

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patsfan07 — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:06:19 MDT

the blood of innocent interns must be spilt to favor the Gods for our mortal Oversights... Off with their heads

patsfan07

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ShaggE — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:05:54 MDT

Win! *waits for the "zomg, ar dat real??" comments*

ShaggE

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Reetesh — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:54:30 MDT

Haha, that was Brilliant!
I didn't even realize that there was a watermark in the big picture too!

Reetesh

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Kiriphii — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:52:07 MDT

I laughed. I laughed *hard*.

Next thing you know they'll be putting Frank 'Wasabi' West in every other product they make..

Kiriphii

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Struct09 — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:51:58 MDT

My local Costco sells this sushi. And of course I thought the same thing when I first saw it.

Struct09

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dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:51:09 MDT

haha Well done, Owen. I had a good laugh, though I suggest you should make your shoops much more terrible for effect.

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

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Anemone — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:46:21 MDT

Premade sushi scares the living bejebus out of me...

Anemone

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hrabbit — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:43:48 MDT

duuuuuuuuuuuuude I've totally seen that in every grocery store in the central valley XD ahaha I thought it was Capcom too X3

hrabbit

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Pezdispenser — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:42:45 MDT

@Lilinka:

You don't have to be bored to notice that IGN has gotten into the Sushi market. Isn't there anything left out there that they haven't touched?

Pezdispenser

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kjcwashere — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:41:35 MDT

theres a sushi bar next to traders joe in san mateo?

lol i gotta pick some up now thanks owen

kjcwashere

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Lilinka — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:36:17 MDT

Wow, someone was very, very bored when they wrote up this post, weren't they?

Lilinka

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Balance_In_Life — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:35:20 MDT

@Gospel X: heh, not saying I laughed out loud like the Pac 'n shit thread but you have to admit it was pretty good.

Owen... keep it up buddy!

Balance_In_Life

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Chikebo — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:31:13 MDT

@verrius:

Also big wolf, its a pun thing.

Chikebo

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djgeki — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:30:40 MDT

@Gospel X: Yes, Owen was funny when he talked about "Pac 'n shit," and this may not have been AS funny as that, but it certainly garnered a chuckle.

Thanks, Owen! ^_^

djgeki

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mike1222 — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:27:55 MDT

I work @ Trader Joe's in NY and its a great store and i can't believe i didn't notice this before lol. I knew I saw that name before.

mike1222

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half-watt — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:27:27 MDT

Made my morning. Thanks for the laugh!

half-watt

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chemical_eng_mx — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:16:14 MDT

Hahahaha the watermark joke was great, have a nice weekend Owen, looking forward to more stuff like this.

chemical_eng_mx

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DarkDragonDave — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:15:37 MDT

That was quite funny. But as "Okami" sushi, one has to wonder if it tastes a bit... "gamey."

DarkDragonDave

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Gospel X — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:15:26 MDT

People laughed at this? Owen, I think you're a funny guy when you're talking about Pac 'n shit, but this was a stretch to say the least.

Gospel X

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Fulgurator — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:14:09 MDT

Okami: Sushi Sensations. Hahaha...
Oh, good ole aliteration, what would the modern world be without you?

Fulgurator

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SanjiX — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:13:59 MDT

Oh dear god, Call Capcom! WE NEED NEW OKAMI STICKERS ON THE FOOD!!

SanjiX

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verrius — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:12:06 MDT

@Maldron: Literally, Okami = "Big god"

verrius

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dead_red_eyes — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:10:17 MDT

Hahaha, thanks for the laugh Owen!

dead_red_eyes

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Touy — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:07:13 MDT

LMAO!

I've seen the Okami sushi before myself, and thus thought the payoff here was going to be pretty lame, but I laughed really really hard at that.

Touy

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my spoon is too big — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:06:42 MDT

absolutely brilliant, +1 to you, that just made my day!

my spoon is too big

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Maldron — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:06:33 MDT

I thought Ōkami meant wolf.

Maldron

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Faint — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:05:05 MDT

Hahaha, excellent.

Faint