What does the Japanese text in this image mean?

[kiwikenobi]

I noticed some text on a bottle a video game character has in some official artwork. It looks like アノリル (a no ri ru) and I can't find any meaning for it. It might be the latter half or middle part of a word or phrase, since you can't see the other side of the bottle. Or maybe I'm reading the characters wrong--they're partially obscured. I know katakana like that is often used for loanwords from other languages, but I still am not sure what it means. Does anyone who knows more Japanese than I do have any idea what this might mean? Or maybe it's not Japanese and I'm missing something obvious in English, or maybe it's from a different language. Or maybe it's just a nonsense word.

Spoiler: Big Image

The game the artwork is from is Fragile Dreams for the Wii, incidentally. I haven't played it, but I came across this art, noticed the text on the bottle, and was curious. ^o^;>

 

[_confused_piplup_]

hmm I know some Japanese, but I am not an expert. I'll try to be helpful anyway lol. I have no idea about the game, I have never heard it before and I haven't played it yet. That's my general idea bout this.

The language seems Japanese but I am not sure it actually is. The text on the bottle seems quite unclear to me. the last katakana are indeed ri and ru, I agree, but the first two ones are harder to understand. If I had to associate the first two katakana I would associate them to a and no, like you did. However, if I have to judge the form of the katakana, tbh the first one make me think of the kanji 子 but it can't be cuz the line in the half is missing. The second katakana makes me think of an S more than any kind of katakana. But assuming those are actually katakana, a no ri ru means nothing. The fact that is written in katakana makes me think of a name, a move or something special in the game. Another thing that it should be pointed out is the yellow circle that could be a way to represent the ー in Japanese. But still no meaning, unless I am missing something as well.

However, I feel like the answer could be on that sort of bag on which a golden fish is represented. Again, the last two katakana are really easy to recognize, but the first two are not. I think the first one could be で with the line on top being covered in some way. It doesn't make sense because it's a hiragana and not a katakana. But the second one, I have never seen that character. Not a hiragana, nor a katakana and not even a kanji (or at east i have never seen it). The only thing that comes to my mind is a 0. However, I have never seen using ック as a counter or something. So, the hypothesis of an invented language seems to be quite possible. I am not sure 100% but that's my view on it. If I think about pokemon, the invented alphabet resembling ours happened with unown and even for the Japanese titles in the game some "distortions" of katakana are used but it's still really clear and easy to recognize the various katakana, while in this case it's not, especially with the first two katakana in both the words.

 

[Alienfish]

It looks like "Asoriru", Asoril? But they could also just have slapped some katakana on for fun. Could also be Ankeru/Ankuru or stuff to.

The bottle looks like "Kurokku?", Croc? (Wonder why they added a goldfish and not an actual crocodile on though lol).

The bottle is a bit hard to tell cause it could be n or so/zo or just anything nonsense since they used dots rather than strokes and also the band is covering most of it.

 

[kiwikenobi]

It seems like it is probably just nonsense characters rather than actual words, which I thought might be the case. Thanks, both of you!

 

[thatawkwardkid]

It looks like it says "block" ブロック

As for the bottle, I'm guessing either アノクル, アンクル or アソクル?