New Maple Town Story - Palm Town Chapter (The Movie) Part 3 of 4

This "movie" is the first episode of Palm Town, Maple Town's sequel series, padded out with an extended flashback taken from Maple Town's final two episodes.

Enter Rolley. From this point onward, the show is officially about her.

Oh, and I suppose the Cat Brothers deserve an introduction, too. Take Gurren Lagann's Simon and Kamina, Lackadaisy's Rocky and Freckle and Pokemon's Jessie and James and put 'em in a blender. The end result will either be a bloody mess or these two losers. Meet Yota and Guta, ladies and gentlemen: blood brothers, partners in crime, and absolutely no good at anything except spoiling their karma. I mean, seriously, guys. Only two things are keeping Rorschach from lynching them with their own intestines: one, they're bad at what they do (apart from losing the audience's sympathy each time they show up), and two, Rorschach doesn't exist in this universe. But then, if he did, #1 would offer them precious little protection.

Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Yota and Guta advance the plot. And Rolley ends up in the middle of it all. (Oh, and Patty's in there somewhere.) Moving on...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maple Town
• Palm Town
• Toei

[BeatlesAmiYumi]

I was wondering. Does Rolley's name kind of rhyme with, or even sound, like the name Molly by any chance?

[TheRyusui]

Technically, no. It's pronounced like "Rolly", from the movie "101 Dalmatians" ("roh-lee"). Of course, that hasn't stopped me from pronouncing it like "Molly" for years. It just sounds more natural to me that way. >_>

[papina54]

wow, I just love too much this cartoon (alongside with Maple town, of course, but Palm for me is special since I used to watch it when I was a youngster...);

My favorite is the Beagle Girl : In the italian version she's known as Lorry, but I noticed in one episode the original name's Rolley !

[TheRyusui]

She's actually a cocker spaniel (her full name, believe it or not, is Rolley Cocker), but the point still stands. ^_^

As for the whole Lorry/Rolley issue, it's worth noting that Japanese doesn't have a real r or l sound, but rather a consonant (usually romanized as r) that's somewhere between the two. The name is written "Roorii" in Japanese, so technically both are legitimate romanizations, but only one is official.

[karnella]

>8( This is bad... for a second there, I forgot they were speaking japanese.

[BeatlesAmiYumi]

Ha! Ha! NOW I understand!

[zeldaplayer20]

same name's in dutch then (Rachel is called Ann in dutch mother of bobby is also called natasha ect) but if i watch the intro of the english version they have a complete different inro instead of the japanees version (dutch and itailian uses also the origenal one) really funny if you ask me

[SkyfireTheFox]

Wow, that's really interesting. You researched this well. And for the record, I never did like those alliterated names in the USA version myself.

[TheRyusui]

Patty is interesting. Her parents are Christine and Marcel, and her surname is the hyphenate Hope-Rabbit. As strange as it might sound, she's supposed to be French (which might be why the French call her Gabby, and their version of the theme song won't let you forget it!).

[TheRyusui]

This said, the Japanese surnames are an interesting bunch. Most of them are a punning play off their species coupled with a European-sounding suffix: we have Bobby Kumanoff in the original ("kuma" = "bear"), and his mother is Natasha (i.e. a Russian theme). Then there's Judy Rithmond ("Risumondo", "risu"="squirrel"), who is probably supposed to be British, and Diana Konderik ("kon" = the sound a fox makes) and her parents Chirine and Hans are probably supposed to be Dutch or German.