While we had seen the boxes for the Takara Transformers: The Last Knight toys a while back, we only got a really
good look at them today. We see that they are just the Hasbro boxes with stickers (like what happened with the first movie toys). However, now that we see the stickers up close, we see something we never saw before: Kanji. You see, every single time before, the name of the film was in Katakana, the bigger Japanese letters you see. However, below these letters, we have different Japanese writing in Kanji and instead of just having the English title phonetically translated, you actually have a Japanese title. And it's a different title than the English one we see on the box. Instead of it being The Last Knight (which is what TLK stands for), they write
The Last Knight King. Could this change in title for Japan give a further hint at the plot of the film? Like not only is it a knight, but there is also a royalty angle or a superiority to the other knights?
Below is the technical explanation regarding the name translation pattern of the previous movie toylines from Sabreblade followed by an example of the Katakana and Kanji found on the boxes.
Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice that the Japanese logo for the movie doesn't have any Katakana in its subheading?
Of the previous four films, all three of the sequels were given different names from the English ones for their respective Japanese releases, but whose subheadings were all still foreign word names rendered in Katakana:
ROTF: トランスフォーマー リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji, "Transformers: Revenge"
DOTM:トランスフォーマー ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā Dākusaido Mūn, "Transformers: Darkside Moon"
AOE:トランスフォーマー ロストエイジ Toransufōmā Rosuto Eiji, "Transformers: Lost Age"
Here, however, the title's subheading is instead rendered in Kanji (along with a の Hiragana):
トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王 Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō, which means "Transformers: The Last Knight King"
This sounds to me like it could give a bit more context as to who the titular knight is. He's not just a knight, but the king of the knights.
