Battlin' Boxer Rib Gardna - Yu-Gi-Oh!

I can't help but notice the neon orange cup.

This card raises an interesting debate regarding its name. I'm not talking about the Burning Knuckler -> Battlin' Boxer thing. As far as localizations go, this actually isn't a bad one. Why they felt they couldn't use Burning Knuckler though is beyond me. When Rib Gardna was first spoiled, fanslators were translating it as Burning Knuckler Leverage Gardna. But the translation the TCG seemed to go with was Burning Knuckler Ribbage Gardna. Due to certain Japanese practices, like the l and the r thing, both translations are actual possibilities. If I had to guess, Ribbage Gardna though was probably the original intention, but there is still an interesting lesson in all this.

Next thing I want to talk about is the ability. In the card game, this guy has a blink effect. Blink effects temporarily remove a card, often your own, from the game. The usefulness of this ability is that it allows cards to dodge removal, whether targeted or sweeping. This is actually a useful ability, one that conveys the idea of the Gardna taking the blow for your guys. However, that was not Rib Gardna's anime ability, not even close. In the anime, Gardna redirects an attack targeting it to another monster you control. It is also an anti-Exceed monster (yes, I know its Xyz, but the fanslation is an actually word and is spelled the way you would pronounce it), detaching all Materials from the attacking monster. This is a general trend I do not get. If you are going to make a card with a totally different ability, why not just make it a totally different card? Why not print Rib Gardna with its anime ability, then print an original Battlin' Boxer monster with this ability?