"Fishing vessel Oto-maru, stop your ship and submit to inspection!"
"Fishing vessel Oto-maru, stop your ship and submit to inspection!"
In Japan, the way ships were named was honestly rather strange to Chinese people. They loved naming ships something-or-other-maru!
And that was especially uncomfortable for Chinese people! In Chinese, wan also meant "finished." Naming a ship with it basically sounded like the ship was doomed!
Actually, in ancient Japanese, maru was a verb meaning "excrete, urinate, and defecate," and later developed into the noun "toilet."
However, ancient Japanese people did not consider excrement filthy or unclean. Instead, they regarded it as the source of life, something terrifying and powerful—even Ghosts and Gods feared it.
Therefore, in Japan, many people in the past were called something-or-other-maru, and that was what it meant!
Using such an immensely powerful thing in someone's name was meant to ward off evil and disaster. And they especially loved calling things maru! For example, Chibi Maruko-chan!
Later, it spread to pets like cats and dogs. Eventually, it began being used in ship names! Using the character "maru" in a ship's name was meant to pray for safe voyages. That was where Japanese ship names using "maru" came from.
But thinking about it, there really were cultural differences! Calling someone Maru-this or Maru-that basically meant some kind of feces container. It really did stink of shit!
Naming a ship that way meant riding a feces container out on the sea!
Sweat. Chen Mo truly could not understand Japanese culture!
So, when Chen Mo heard the patrol boat approaching him slow down while shouting for the feces container to stop, his face was covered in Black Lines!
Damn it, sailing out in a ship called "Soon-to-be-finished" meant it was definitely in a soon-to-be-finished state! Pretty much every Japanese