Danger: Well, no one really understood Foghorn Leghorn either. Besides I meant it in a good way. :)

Moo: No, I don't have a conical nose in the middle of a little round face. When I want blood, I usually go for the jugular.

Fahruz: I think Myoga's kind of cool. I admire his self-satisfied intellectualism, I like the way he stands with his middle legs on his hips as he gesticulates pompously with his forelegs, and as I said, we are similar dressers. If you (or anyone else) can help me find a Myoga avatar, I will consider adopting it. He kind of fits the whole WinterGnat concept.

My wife claims that when she met me 16 years ago, I *was* Mirokou, the cheerful, care-free, utterly-devout, endlessly-horny Shinto monk who supports everyone by faking exorcisms. I had cancer when I was younger, and Mirouko has a similar disease (though not named as such), so maybe that's why she thinks so. Or maybe she just means that I'm not as handsome now as I was back then. These Asian women are so inscrutable. (j/k) :)

My students, who first told me about Inu-Yasha, swear that I am Myoga. I read some of the manga after that to see what they were talking about, but I never saw the anime (I don't even know if I'm using the terms right) until last summer in Taiwan. Inu-Yasha was on four times a day, twice in Chinese and twice in Japanese, both with English subtitles. It beat hanging out with my mother-in-law.

Since then, I've seen a few episodes of the English dub in America, but only one or two. It's not as good as the Asian versions, though I liked Kagome's quasi-feminist characterization. She's has gentler characterization in the Japanese version, and is almost child-like in the Chinese dub. Also, Inu-Yasha is not nearly detached enough in the English version. In the Asian versions, he's got all this violence in the potential, but his voice is calm, like a Samurai . In the English dub, he seemed more like a pissed-off surfer dude.

I heard the word "Myoga" is a theological concept in Japanese that means something like "divine intervention that you are never even aware of having received." Is that true?

p.s. I guess this post really belongs on the anime thread, but the heck with it. I thought if doing an Inu-Yasha cast party, but I doubt anyone would get it. Also we don't have many likely players. Fahruz would be Lord Seshomuru for sure, and I would take the part of Myoga (with certain reservations), but I don't know who would take the other roles. Let's face it: we're just not a bunch of medieval Japanese demon-slayers.