BANANE:
Anime | Name Origin




SAILOR MOON SUPERS MOVIE


click for larger version Banane is one of the cuckoo faeries from the Sailor Moon SuperS movie who serves Queen Badiane by collecting children. He first appears steering a floating gondola full of children with his flute towards Marzipannu Castle. Two other faeries, Poupelin and Orangeat, arrive at the castle at the same time. The Sailor Senshi also float toward Marzipannu Castle on a floating gondola, but Banane and Orangeat attack them with cannon balls. They arrive unharmed, but the faeries attack with BonBon Babies. Banane controls orange BonBon Babies. During the course of the attack, click for larger version Sailor Mars destroys Banane's flute with her Mars Flame Sniper attack, causing the faerie to turn into a orange cuckoo bird that flies away. Banane's seiyuu is Nobuhiko Kazama. He appears only in the Sailor Moon SuperS movie. In the Materials Collection, Naoko Takeuchi says that Banane is reptilian, his tongue sticks out, and that the image is of bananas. His outfit is very strange; it makes him look like a large banana.. The Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS Movie Memorial Album calls Banane a "kakko no yosei," meaning "cuckoo faerie."



NAME ORIGIN


According to the Materials Collection, the romanization of Banane's name is literally "Bananu." is what we see in the Materials Collection. "Bananu" is the Japanese approximation of the French word "Banane" (sometimes 'nu' is used to approximate 'ne' in some French words). "Banane" is the French word for "Banana."