Talk:Nonosama Bo

Name Meaning
Does the name "Nonosama" even have a proper meaning? I mean, "sama" is a suffix for "lord", "master", etc., but "Nono" doesn't really have a literal meaning, so how does it end up as "Sacred Thing"? 06:24, July 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * "Nono" is a baby-word which means all the thing that should be respected, such as kami, buddha or sun and moon. --Klobis 10:18, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

When you say baby-word, do you mean like someone saying choo-choo instead of train or locomotive? Sama would be an honorific, so it would basically refer to the respect owed or deserved by God as well as the higher status that would come with sama. Am I correct in my derived translation? 12:42, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

Nono is a word of honor, and Nono-sama is more honorific version. --Klobis 13:26, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

I see. 14:06, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

Basis of the weapon
I'm rather surprised nobody's mentioned this. The Nonosama Bo seems to be based on the Nyoi Bo (or Ruyi Jingu Bang), the staff of Sun Wukong from The Journey to the West. It was a magical staff capable of changing in length, and I don't think there's any other fictional staff out there that can do that.

Death Goddess Raiden (talk) 17:03, March 9, 2018 (UTC)