⚫️Japanese onomatopoeia Vol. 27 “TOU!”（トウ！）by Kay Koyama (JPN)
When I was a kid. “KAMEN (Mask) Rider” was on air, and this was the very first one of the long hit series of kids’ sci-fi dramas, “KAMEN Rider” somethings.
“KAMEN Rider” is, I thought, kind of humanoid insect, riding on a moter bike, with mighty power like “Power Rangers” (lol)
I used to love watching the program and play the role with my peer kids mimicing him.
“TOU!” is the onomatopoeia when the Rider jumps down from high places such as cliffs and elevated scaffolds. He shouts the word raising his both hands vitically and keep his legs together as if he were a gymnast of the Olympic game (lol).
TOU probably expresses the sound of his legs stomping the ground or even his brave spirit as a hero. → Or English “toe” because he used his toe fingers first when he jumps??)^o^(
My mother would say that she had never heard something like that word, so she wondered what these kids. including me, were saying (lol).
(Otherwise. she didn’t know his famous line, ‘HENSIN!（変身！）KAMEEEEEN RAIDAH’ either which means ‘ Metamorphosize!’ in English waving his both arms as if he’s writing number ‘2’ in the air (lol). I think it’s like Captain Kark shouts, Energize!’ in the episods of ‘Star Trek’)
⚫️How to pronounce “TOU”
1 Prepare your tongue to the shout, “TOU!”
2 Count four
3 Then shout loualy.