犬溶接マン
[b]Dogwelder[/b] is one member of the [[DC Comics]] super hero team, “Section 8”"[1]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links], who made their first appearance in the “Hitman” comics"[2]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links] by Garth Ennis"[3]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links] and John McCrea"[4]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links].

He dons a [[welding mask]] with his spot welder[b](*1)[/b], and carries around stray [[dog]] [[corpse|corpses]] and vanquishes evildoers by welding the dead dogs to their faces.
Never showing his true face or saying a word, it's hard to believe he's not a villain but one of the active heroes in Gotham City.

In Japan his popularity been on the rise ever since novelist and translator Kaihou Norimitsu"[5]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links] showed great admiration for the character through his twitter feed"[6]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links], calling Dogwelder "犬溶接マン ([i]Inu Yousetsu Man[/i])” (lit. Dog Welding Man).
At last, Kaihou's Japanese translation of the Hitman comics are set to go on sale in August of 2013"[7]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links].

These translations plan to use "Inu Yousetsu Man" as the official Japanese translated name"[8]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links] for Dogwelder. The news containing information on the publication of the translation reported with this convoluted expression, “Even the Japanese version will have Inu Yousetsu Man as Inu Yousetsu man!”"[9]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links]
(It's hasn't been since 1969, when the Hanna-Barbera cartoon "The [[Fantastic Four]] aired in Japan, that a super hero name has been changed in the Japanese version. At that time, the member names were "Goomuz", "Susie", "Fireboy", and "Gan-rock" ~ "gomu" and "gan" each mean rubber and rock in Japanese.)

[tn][b](*1)[/b] Some Japanese believe that he is holding an arc welder (or arc cutter)"[10]":[/wiki_pages/46621#dtext-external-links].
“Wait... where is the electrode?!”
“Hmm, maybe he's doing that welding with a kind of psionic power...”[/tn]

h4.See also

* [[DC Comics]]
* [[welding]]

h4#external-links.External Links

[1] Wikipedia: "Section 8":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_%28comics%29 
[2] Wikipedia: "Hitman":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_%28DC_Comics%29
[3] Wikipedia: "Garth Ennis":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
[4] Wikipedia: "John McCrea":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrea
[5] Wikipedia(JP): "海法紀光":http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B7%E6%B3%95%E7%B4%80%E5%85%89
[6] http://togetter.com/li/372079
[7] http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/404728890X/ 
[8] http://twitter.com/nk12/status/340122232657416192
[9] http://www.kotaku.jp/2013/06/hitman_japanese_translation.html
[10] [s]h[/s][s]ttp://log.shipweb.jp/?mode=datview&board_name=magazin&thread_key=1369654847&thread_id=977291#res80[/s] (Dead link)
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