#onil

Look familiar

slime from dragon quest

onil from bomberman

You know, all this time I never realized that Bomberman had Enemies! I thought it was just all those Bombers Men blowing each other up for sport. And I love those Bombers Men, they are very cute, but wow! Enemies! I love those! Enemies are my friends. There have been sooo many enemies over the course of the franchise, but here I will be talking about the originals from the very beginning! For the sake of consistency, I will be using the artwork from Bomberman Party Edition, since that was sadly the most recent time they all got official art for the same game. Here they come! Some creatures!

BALLOM

Ballom is The Enemy. The first one! It is very simple. It is really just a balloon, sometimes with a string, sometimes not. Watch out for this one! Ever try to kill a balloon before? Don’t let the media fool you, you need a bomb to do it. Ballom actually appeared before all the others in the very first game, called Bomber Man, where it was the only enemy! This game was localized in Europe as... Eric and the Floaters. It sounds like a band name! A real Yoshi’s Island style localization choice. This is not a Bomberman game anymore. It’s an Eric game.

I do not think this is what balloons look like

ONIL

Already we have reached my favorite one! Onil is a blue onion sort of thing, and I am really just a sucker for creatures that are vegetables. It is so cute! It’s almost not recognizable as an onion most of the time, with its tip looking like a dollop of frosting rater than actual onion skin, but the original sprite does a pretty good job of communicating Onion. As you can see at the beginning of the post, its name was originally localized as O’Neal, which I think is very funny. That’s a Last Name right there! This onion was named like a Fortnite character!

The band El Diluvi has collaborated with the traditional singers Pep Gimeno “Botifarra” and Hilari Alonso to make a more modern version of the folk song Fandango d’Onil.

Lyrics in Valencian-Catalan and translation to English:

Marieta té un cosinet que el trau a ballar quan vol

Marieta has a younger cousin who she takes out to dance when she wants.

Deixa estar a Marieta sense por, sense por, que ella gent té de sobra que la vol, que la vol.

Leave Marieta alone, without fear without fear, for she has more than enough people who love her, who love her.

Deixa estar a Marieta, no tinc por, no tinc por, tu no vingues a dir-me a qui vol el meu cor.

Leave Marieta alone, I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid, don’t come to tell me who my heart loves.

Té la careta bonica que pareix un antifaç de rosers i clavellines, però no m’enganyaràs.

She has a beautiful face that looks like a mask of roses and carnations, but you won’t fool me.

Són les onze tocaes, jo tinc son, jo tinc son, acabem el fandango i apaguem el cresol.

It’s eleven o’clock, I’m sleepy, I’m sleepy, let’s finish the fandango [fandango is this kind of song for dancing] and put out the crucible.

The letters at the end of the video mean: “Quin fandango!” is an adaptation of the “Fandango d’Onil”. The first music sheet of this folk song is from 1910, as part of the show Festes d’Onil (Festivities of Onil), a musical theatre that takes place in the festivities of the town of Onil (l’Alcoià [county, in the Valencian Country]).

You can hear how that original score of this song sounds like here: