fooflexible on 22 March 2007
HappySquirrel said: in Japan the letter X is associated with "Wrong". If you doubt me, go and play Mario games where when you hit a '?' box you either get a green "O" or a red "X" ...
Even thuogh your right about their being problems your wrong about the "X" part being the problem. X in America is also used when marking an answer wrong and such so we too identify with that. Yet X is also a cool and accaptable letter in Japan after all one of Japan's most favorite manga creators Clamp had a huge running manga called X. Later it was a big movie by none other then Madhouse productions(based on the manga.) and a Tv show called X There is also a band called X in Japan that ran in the 80's and 90's. check 'em out:
X the BandAlthough this band looks so bad I could see them giving the letter a bad rep.
X The movie
X the TV show
Also being that X is a big letter in America for entertainment they're quite used to it. Hence X-men, X2, X3, all doing very well in Japan in the box office, also the X-men comics do well. I'm more then sure Japan picks up on X being a cool letter from america.
So I think I made the point, nothing really wrong with X in Japan.
