In Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon, Orochi now has a more draconic appearance with a bulky body and stubby legs. In The Three Treasures, Orochi looks like a giant snake with eight heads, with eight small tails extending from the main one. In the English dub and subtitles for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and in the end credits of the English version of Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon, Yamata no Orochi's name is translated as the ' Eight-Headed Dragon.' The creature is often referred to as just Orochi (大蛇, Orochi) for short, an archaic reading of the two kanji which together mean 'giant snake' and are typically otherwise read as daija.
While the most common kanji spelling for the creature's name is 八岐大蛇, which is the spelling used in both The Three Treasures and Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon, it is also sometimes spelled as 八俣遠呂智 or 八俣遠呂知, both of which are also read Yamata no Orochi. Yamata no Orochi's name literally translates from Japanese as 'Giant Eight Branched Snake,' though by convention the English translation is typically given as 'Big Snake of Eight Branches.' While the creature's name is typically spelled in kanji characters, in Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon it includes a furigana katakana spelling above the kanji, as is the case for most of the characters in the film. 3.3.1 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
