There are (at least) 3 sources that have something called “Knights of the Round” and a table is never mentioned:
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[li]A summon in Final Fantasy VII, known for its ridiculously long animation[/li][li]A Final Fight-esque beat 'em up video game[/li][li]An organization in the anime/manga Code Geass[/li][/ul]
The first two give no context about why the table is omitted from what I remember, I don’t know much about the anime to say if it’s addressed. All are Japanese sources but beyond that I have nothing. I looked, and the katakana does not help. Is there a reason why? Any other examples?
I’m going to guess that it’s just for brevity. It might also be influenced by the fact that Arthur’s knights are sometimes referred to with French adjective order, “Knights of the Table Round”.
But why did at least 3 sources come to the same solution seemingly independently, with no link beyond all being Japanese?
You do know that the whole story of Arthur and his round table is a myth, don’t you. It’s probably a combination of folk stories about a Dark Ages Celtic warrior, or warriors.
The ‘round table’ is a metaphor.
Well, sure, but it’s a well-established myth, which is all that’s needed for the OP’s question to make sense.
Officially, the table was rectilinear … as we can see from the only known YouTube video from that time …
I’ve never watched the FFVII summon but it’d be pretty ridiculous to summon a table along with the knights. YMMV.
But the knights are a-round it, aren’t they? Hmmm?
Sometimes Western mythology passes through into Asian cultures with some weird tweaks. The differences that occur when some Western things get used in Japanese entertainment can be VERY weird. Some examples I can think of offhand is the way the Norse Norns are treated in the anime series “Ah, My Goddess” (the Norns as individuals isn’t even something most Western people would consider as common knowledge). The various ways the Final Fantasy series rifles through Western mythology for spare entities is another.
More like a-top it I should say …
The summon is ridiculously long. If you junction it with W-Summon and Mime it twice, you have enough time to get up and make a sandwich while fighting one of the Wepaons or Sephiroth. Of course, the time needed to breed a gold chocobo to actually go get the materia and the time needed to win the W-Summon materia are also ridiculously long. As is the time needed to clone the Mime materia to get two of them. The attack can hit for a max of 129,987 damage each time it runs.
(I think one of the longest possible sequences in the game is to junction Quadra-Magic with Bahamut ZERO and Mime twice. That’s probably 12 minutes worth of animation.)
Here’s the summon from the remaster.
When it comes to something like the OP, my general response is “It’s Japanese” and leave it at that. In other words, something hasn’t quite crossed the cultures properly.
I prefer this recently discovered video.
Your link doesn’t work. Here’s a video from the original game. That is one bad ass summon.
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Your link doesn’t work. Here’s a video from the original game. That is one bad ass summon.
[/QUOTE]Never mind, the link worked the second time I clicked on it.:smack:
This video doesn’t look contemporaneous … pretty obvious reenactment from the Plantagenet Era … the lion rampant and fleur-de-lis are trappings of the Angevin Empire.
ナイトオブラウンズ Naito Obu Raunzu.
The japanese is the sounds spelt out. Ergo They dont know what it means, its just a bunch of sounds which sounds a bit like english “knights of round”.
When it got to table they gave up, perhaps on the basis that they don’t want to mislead someone into thinking the table is the actor - its a table with a sword and armour… Rolls down the street and takes on the enemy…
Reminds me of a couple of animes where one of the characters uses the Rashomon summons. Giant gates appear out of nowhere and do something bad ass.
Why not? They already have a house.