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This title needs a hyphen 85.195.123.22 22:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

It's a bit fiddlier than you might think. Go take a look at Go, Goshooter - Showdown in the Wasteland, Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers or A Hero is Chosen - His Name is Ginrai. See how they all have that funky "dot" in the middle? It's designed to separate the titles into two parts, which has been done in the English translations used here by employing a hyphen. This one *doesn't* have the dot, but when *spoken,* by the narrator, is uttered with a pause between "Ginrai" and the rest of the sentence. There are several other titles that are like this one - A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva and BlackZarak: Destroyer from Space are two that come to mind right away. Jordan L. Derber specifically translated instances of the "dot" as hyphens (or otherwise did away with it by merging the sentences or using other punctuation), while titles like this one, without the punctuation but featuring the spoken pause, were rendered with colons. I'm trying to stick with this method of parsing the titles consistently. - Chris McFeely 23:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm refurring to an added hyphen in the phrase God-On, sorry if I didn't make that clear, it's just that a Hyphen would make such a nonsense phrase make more sense. 85.195.123.22 00:46, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
God bless poor translations. -- SFH 00:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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