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===Dialogue differences=== | ===Dialogue differences=== | ||
*In the Japanese version, the sounds the whales make are different, and appear to be voice-acted rather than based on whale recordings. | *In the Japanese version, the sounds the whales make are different, and appear to be voice-acted rather than based on whale recordings. | ||
*In the Japanese version, the whale-submarine hybrid is | *In the Japanese version, the whale-submarine hybrid is called 「原始力潜水艦ノーチラカス号」 ("the neolithic submarine HMS ''Nau-litter''") by King Dedede and [[Escargoon]]. This pairing goes nameless in the English version. | ||
**The Japanese designation is a play on the nuclear submarine [[wikipedia:USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS ''Nautilus'']], as 原始 ("primitive") and 原子 ("nuclear") are pronounced the same way in Japanese (げんし or ''genshi''). The name ノーチラカス (''nōchirakasu'') incorporates 散らかす, meaning "to scatter or make a mess". | |||
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