Canaan/Trivia

• Canaan is the name of the land that eventually became Israel in the Old Testament.
  • Originally, however, "Canaan" referred to Phoenicians (you can even hear the phonetic similarity) in their own language. Phoenicians were the supreme mariners and traders of their time and founded Carthage, The Rival and Worthy Opponent to Ancient Rome. They also invented the alphabet.
• Alphard is the name of a star in the middle of the Hydra constellation. It is also known as the "Heart of the Snake" because of that (thus, no wonder Alphard commands the "Snakes"). "Al-Phard" also means "the lonely one" in Arabic because it the brightest star in the whole sky sector.
• Synesthesia is a phenomenon where one kind of stimulus leads to another. Synesthetic people can perceive sounds as colors or feel that numbers have a certain texture or personality. It has absolutely nothing to do with perceiving people's state of mind as colors, which is quite impossible in the real world. This troper has the sound -> colors variety and would just love to be able to sense what other people feel, but reality gets in the way.
  • Outside of that, Canaan does make repeated mention of "scents", so it could be that she has a smells -> colors variety... and has a nose like a bloodhound.
  • Also, synesthesia doesn't work the way it is shown in episode 10! It is a process inside our brains, so if some device (see below) does cancel out all noise, it won't reach the synesthesiac person's ears, ergo, there is no way it can be converted into any other sense and do any damage, if it's Hakko's voice.
• Active noise control, which cancels out all sounds, is a realistic notion, except that to cancel sounds in the entire facility, as shown in episode 10, it'd have to consist of thousand of sound detectors and hundreds of anti-noise generators scattered all over the place. And a huge mainframe to process the noise data in real time.
• Fan Nickname: Osawa Moeria.
  • Sugoi Sugoi: Either just Maria as her Catch Phrase, or the show on a whole.
  • Mino-Sama: By those who like Mino.
  • HIGH TENSION!: the badass taxi driver after his apparent Catchphrase.
    • Some fans call him "Taxi Driver George" due to his awesomeness multiplied by a few times thanks to Joji Nakata voicing him, who's also known as George.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Rie Tanaka (Liang Qi), Maaya Sakamoto (Alphard), Mamiko Noto (Hakko), Miyuki Sawashiro (Canaan), Haruka Tomatsu (Yunyun), Tohru Ookawa (who you might know as Ieyasu, as Cummungs), Kenji Hamada (who you might know as Patrick is Minoru), Akio Ohtsuka (Siam), Joji Nakata (Jin).
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