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@kiwiinkyushu

Жыл бұрын

Great timing. My current VPN expires in a couple of days so I signed up to this one as it has better Linux support. Keep up the good videos by the way.

@CanadianReset

Жыл бұрын

Btw do you know why Japanese yahoo is blocked via gdpr. Is it because they don't have the prompt?

@Japanalysis

Жыл бұрын

@@CanadianReset it’s probably just too much of a hassle for them to comply vs just blocking. dunno tho

@soupdrinker72

Жыл бұрын

@@kiwiinkyushu what distro lol

@depressedkiwicomics

Жыл бұрын

@@soupdrinker72 Debian

Light Yagami having a "kira"kira name is quite fitting

@TomieBoi69

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget "Yoshikage Kira"

@maximaxxx2531

Жыл бұрын

The author used a fictional name so that there would be no kids made fun of at school for having the same name as a murderer. Quite a nice gesture, but I'm sure someone has named their kid Light by now😂

@DrawnByLaserLove

Жыл бұрын

@@TomieBoi69 I know it's just a joke, but Kira (吉良) is a common family name, it dates back to the 12th century.

@3gou

Жыл бұрын

feel like L wouldve mentioned this in an outtake

@amadeosendiulo2137

Жыл бұрын

@@3gou L should change his name to W.

I saw an ID of this Vietnamese kid that is named Mai Quốc Khánh. Funny thing about his name is, his surname “Mai” can be understood as “tomorrow” and his given name “Quốc Khánh” means the National Independence Day. Vietnam Independence Day is on September 2nd and the kid is born on September 1st. So his name literally translates to “National Independence Day Tomorrow”. What’s even more hilarious is that this name sounds perfectly casual to Vietnamese unless we really think about it.

@succicucci

Жыл бұрын

Wait that is really clever of the parents. You can remember his birthday just by reading his name. Tên hay thiệt nha :))))))

@DDD_Tinker

Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine wasn't loud enough when asking for the name, and the parents were just having a normal conversation, ignorant of the nurse loll

@nanospeed2550

Жыл бұрын

That's so cool!!!! I love that!!

@eddie-roo

Жыл бұрын

At least people know when their birthday is now

@mintaroum.9096

Жыл бұрын

In vietnamese there's a LOT of names that sounds casual but will give you the "holy shit" moments when you try to break down each word's meaning. Take Uncle Ho's every names from every stage of his life for example. When he was born his name was Nguyễn 'Sinh Cung' means "born with reverence"; when he's mature his name was changed to "Nguyễn 'Tất Thành' means "everything will be ok"; when he travel abroad to find a way to save Vietnam, he changed his name to Nguyễn 'Ái Quốc' literally means "love my country" and when he went back home his name was Hồ 'Chí Minh' means "towards the light" (get it? "The light of communism") or "a bright ambition".

So Hajime used to be called “Prince” in Japanese and is now a musician? So does that make him The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?

@RaySpartan315

5 ай бұрын

That's genius 😂😂😂 Haven't heard that one in a while WOW

@WizardAmbrose

4 ай бұрын

Hitler is that you?

@minkmiau

2 ай бұрын

That made me laugh more than it should have made me laugh.

@obelix8492

2 ай бұрын

Kihote

@cthuluthunderballs8232

2 ай бұрын

dawn quote-eh

I love that as soon as the "Princess Candy" name was mentioned, I laughed and joked to myself that her parents must be filipino. 2 seconds later: "it turns out her mom is from the Philippines" 😅

@SamanthaWritesThings

11 ай бұрын

I literally paused the video to say to my husband “Meanwhile in the Philippines that would be a normal name” and then we screamed two seconds later 😂

@Vanadium

11 ай бұрын

@@SamanthaWritesThingsas a german I really don’t understand why someone want to name their child after a thing. Depends where you are but they could also be rejected here in Germany. Most names like that will get rejected.

@machirim2805

11 ай бұрын

Filipinos trying not to embarrass their country challenge (impossible)

@idontcare7340

11 ай бұрын

​@Vanadium People in the past tend to name their child after things, places and jobs. Example: Penny (thing), Hunter (job), London (place). Lol but Princess Candy is something else. Where I'm from, attaching Queen to a name is becoming more common. Like Queensha, Queena, Queenda. Those parents think it's elegant but it's really just tacky.

@Vanadium

11 ай бұрын

@@idontcare7340 Haha, I am German. Basically all our sure names are things or stuff some did do as a job or derive from that. But your Name would not be 99,99% , a thing or job , etc. There are a few exceptions but those are more then one thing combined and really are nothing like a Prince, King , whatever.

When Shinzo Abe went against kira kira names, I thought he was just being a boomer, and then he picked fucking Pikachu as an example, and that immediately got me on his side.

@MedK001

Жыл бұрын

Same. "Parents who would name their kid in such a way need guidance" was kinda savage

@killuaaaaaa139

Жыл бұрын

@@MedK001 i saw a post a few months ago where someone's niece was named reighfyl and pronounced /"rifle"

@srikaeya

Жыл бұрын

@@killuaaaaaa139 the writing form looks ugly as shit😭😭😭

@fuckugplus

Жыл бұрын

Most names are from fictional characters anyway. One cannot deny pikachu importance in culture. Brace yourself when zoomer get kids . Kid named fortnite and amungous

@rauntche

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing "boomer"-sh about it. In Brazil, naming your kid in such a way is absolutely illegal because parents would make jokes of their children's names or straight up insults put there. Naming your kid based off a fictional character is harmless compared to what some parents do. It's just very dumb and selfish people making a nuisance of themselves, like always.

The funniest name I saw growing up was this Singaporean man whose name was Batman Bin Suparman. Where his first name was Batman, and his last name Bin Suparman meant Son of Suparman. Meaning that his Dad's names was Suparman and that it took at least two generations for the name to come about.

@hypezar

Жыл бұрын

Definitely the dad is from Indonesia because Suparman is an Indonesian name. 🤣

@chargemankent

Жыл бұрын

There's also James Bond in Indonesia. And there's a legendary name that goes viral because of what it meant. A guy by the name "Tuhan" went viral because of the meaning of the word. "Tuhan" means God in Indonesia. Imagine having "God" as your name.

@Lyriazix

Жыл бұрын

Last I heard about that dude is that he's in jail though, can't remember what crime he did though.

@Lawarch

Жыл бұрын

@@hypezar No! he is from Krypton haha

@137cloud

Жыл бұрын

​@@hypezar are you for real? Lol

That dad who tried to name his kid "Akuma" (10:31) has the kind of haircut you'd expect him to have.

@roadent217

Жыл бұрын

It's the Kuze from Yakuza 0 haircut.

@Hikari_Sakurai

10 ай бұрын

Bet he's got a bosozoku bike in his garage.. 💀💀💀

@NucleaRaptor

10 ай бұрын

I was expecting to see Heihachi Mishima tbh.

@ivoryas1696

6 ай бұрын

@@NucleaRaptor Nah, we already passed the part of the video dealing with fans of fictional bears 💀

@bedrock6443

3 ай бұрын

Christians be fuming.

"My name is Tenshi, but it's pronounced Enjeru," sounds to me like the Japanese equivalent of names we in the US would call "a tragedeigh"

There's this manga that's called Tonikaku Kawaii. It's main character's name is 星空 that can be read as Hoshizora and translated as Starry Sky. But it's actually Nasa. Yes, because of the NASA

@brandonhughes4076

Жыл бұрын

Best part is, not only is Nasa-kun's strange name the root of a lot of his character traits, it's also relevant to the story lol

@adamlotfi563

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking about Nasa-kun throughout the whole video! Glad someone brought it up haha

@hellbunniez3

Жыл бұрын

damn it’s been a long time since i’ve heard of tonikaku kawaii! still a banger op tho

@Ahlurglgr

Жыл бұрын

@@hellbunniez3 then I guess I should inform you that 2nd season is airing right now

@brandonhughes4076

Жыл бұрын

@@hellbunniez3 second season started recently, second OP bangs too

Wait. Yagami Light is Kira. And has a Kira Kira name. How did L not think of this?

@thenightjackal

Жыл бұрын

"surely the real kira would have changed his name to make it less obvious- unless, that is exactly what he wants me to think!"

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

Maybe because they did think to "killer" in the anime/manga when they used the word "Kira"? 🤔 Also... how old the manga is?

@queentsareena

Жыл бұрын

....... omg

@ammi5311

Жыл бұрын

L = ratio 🥶🥶🥶

@amadeosendiulo2137

Жыл бұрын

That's a big L for L.

Listen, I got into an argument with friends+girl-friends back in college (like 6 years ago) and I was trying to tell them, "Nah, there's totally a scene where Light explains that his name is written with the characters for moon," and for the life of me I couldn't find the clip, and nobody believed me, and they all told me I was stupid and his name was just "Light." When you used his name as an example of a sparkling name and pointed out that his name is spelled Moon, without warning, and reflexively, I let out a "THANK YOU!" -6 years later, at night, alone, very loudly.

@KF-zb6gi

Жыл бұрын

bro lost the war but won the battle

@SmashPortal

8 ай бұрын

Maybe it was a sub/dub confusion?

@helenaborgespeixoto7598

6 ай бұрын

I remember that scene! My dad was watching cable tv these days and I saw this scene on Toonami, I think it was episode 6? But I could be wrong. I didn't even know it was a kira-kira name, I only discovered that it existed when I watched this video lol

@prot07ype87

5 ай бұрын

@@KF-zb6gi Other way around. Bro lost the battle but won the war.

@fen4ri

Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he's said it like in multiple scenes but i cant remember every scene where he introduces himself

imagine getting named devil, and when finally you could change your name the dad changes it to “bad” then you realize it still has devil inside the word

@user-pt5cl2ro6f

Ай бұрын

He lost the battle and won the war

@illford

Ай бұрын

Now his kid named after the Samurai Jack villain 💀

I had this one elementary school student whose name was Rin, but the kanji in her name was for "Suzu" (bell), so she explained to me that her family gave her the name because "rin rin" (like ring ring) is the SOUND the bells make. 😄 It's actually kind of cute, but it's confusing as hell. Edit: Wow, thank you everyone for the likes. Also, there are many knowledgeable people as well as native speakers in the replies who explain the kanji and it looks like it's actually a very common name. Thanks for sharing with us. 🤗 I just want to point out that this happened about 7-8 years ago, and I was still new to kanji and how it's read. Now when I read other comments, this name doesn't seem like a kira-kira name, but I believe many people would agree that figuring out the pronunciation would be difficult, especially for beginners. 😅

@Japanalysis

Жыл бұрын

lmao that is a cute name

@maximaxxx2531

Жыл бұрын

Suzu can be read as Rin. This is a perfectly fine name; no kira-kira here.

@thatoneperson1577

Жыл бұрын

I happen to know a person like that. This must be somewhat common then.

@ketchup901

Жыл бұрын

りん is a valid reading for 鈴 used in words like 風鈴.

@GoboBobo

Жыл бұрын

Oh, like 棗鈴 (Natsume Rin) from Little Busters. Is it that uncommon?

One of the most ridiculous name I’ve come across during my university years in Japan was 凹凸(テトリス) literally named Tetris. 凹凸 is an actual word though, it means concave convex and basically means unevenness.

@user-ol7bt4wp1j

Жыл бұрын

Bruh they even have the Kanji looking like Tetris blocks.

@MatsubaAgeha

Жыл бұрын

Speechless. 😦💧

@queuedjar4578

Жыл бұрын

I'm not even mad, that's just impressive at that point.

@mmyr8ado.360

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-ol7bt4wp1j The second one is literally a T-square

@MrStupidarmy

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact : Those two alphabet isn't kanji. My professor (who so expert on Kanji, even native teacher ask to him about Kanji LOL) insist to us It's part Kanji but not entirely kanji. The reason because those two words was made by Japanese. Not included on Chinese Hanzi. He even called it "Waji," since ot was made by Japanese LOL.

As a Chinese, I am fascinated by some of these names and how the Japanese language can juxtapose Han characters with English loanwords. Most of the Kanji have the same meanings in Chinese like 天使 黃熊 宇宙, but it is amazing how Japanese can have so many readings. It is worth mentioning, 黃熊 / Puu probably hasn't aged well for political meme reasons. Haha.

@blueberryjackson7539

10 ай бұрын

only for our dear xi zhuxi!! 😜

@pillbugm8914

9 ай бұрын

Even for non-political reasons yellow bear wouldn't be good. Yellow has strong sexual connotations and it seems like you're implying something very unsavory about yourself if you adopt that name.

@MaximSupernov

8 ай бұрын

天使 (tenshi) and 宇宙 (uchū) are Wasei-kango (和製漢語), terms coined in Japan and later adopted and widely used by modern Chinese scholars in the Sinophone world. Hence, they share the same meaning.

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

Meanwhile while I understand that 'Reiwa' (令和) means "beautiful harmony" in Japanese, its _kanji_ translates into Chinese as the more grating phrase: " (to issue an) order/command (to achieve) harmony"

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

@@blueberryjackson7539 Meanwhile mainland China's PLA used to be led by an admiral called Wu Shengli (吴胜/吳勝利), whose name unfortunately sounds like the phrase "without victory"

Imagine being your name pikachu and having a love confession "Pikachu I choose you! 👉"

I always found it funny how the name Hifumi is literally 1 2 3 (in many cases) and somehow that's pretty much accepted as normal.

@Japanalysis

Жыл бұрын

lol i almost put 一二三 in the vid tbh. i could not believe it when i first saw it in danganronpa

@Kaimax61

Жыл бұрын

or Shiina -> 四五七 -> 457

@GuagoFruit

Жыл бұрын

@@Japanalysis ikr, I first saw it in persona 5, then from the judoka Hifumi Abe. But judo being Japanese, I actually saw the kanji.

@JannPoo

Жыл бұрын

There's a Hifumi in Higurashi no naku koro ni as well, and his adoptive daughter decided to take the name "Miyo" written as "三四" (3, 4).

@Japanalysis

Жыл бұрын

@@JannPoo o yea true I watched that one last year!

I actually like 月 read as Luna and 宇宙 as Cosmo. There's at least a semblance of connection between the name and meaning. Whereas, names like 黄熊 read as puu is just insane.

@MedK001

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, agreed! I feel like those are kinda natural extensions to kanji -- in a way, words already work like this, just with Chinese/Japanese readings instead of Romance ones

@MrDarkNao

Жыл бұрын

KOS-MOS from Xenosaga?

@rauntche

Жыл бұрын

Still, the pronounciation is completley counter-intuitive. Why not just name your daughter 瑠奈?

@NoiceWeed

Жыл бұрын

sus

@hachikuji_mayoi

Жыл бұрын

@@rauntche that's objectively less cool

People need to remember they arent just naming a baby, they are naming a person who will grow up to be an adult

@boardcertifiable

Ай бұрын

And could one day determine if you suffer or not if you become incapacitated in an accident.

@the_mind_electric

Ай бұрын

@@boardcertifiable that sounds somewhat threatening

I laughed out loud when I heard "Princess Candy said that if she ever changed her name, she'd go even further and change it to Queeen". Honestly, I respect this woman a lot, she really owns it. Here in Brazil we have some famous stories of weird names like numbers ("123 de Oliveira 4", but with the names spelled out), fictional characters and "Capeta" (the Devil) or incorrect pronunciations for foreign names, like Mary being pronounced "Meire" or "Walt Disney" becoming "Valdisney" I have a distant cousin, born to hippie parents, named "Sunshine" (not sunshine in Portuguese, his name is the word in English).

@DiamondsRexpensive

11 ай бұрын

Your distant cousin is basically Mandark....

@cybercatkaitosupremacy

5 ай бұрын

My teacher said she found a kid with the name John Lennon, here in Brazil...

Great video! I’m Japanese and in high school I had classmates named “seven (sebun)” and “eight (eito)”, which are semi-Kira Kira names. They sound pretty natural, so it doesn’t feel weird calling them in Japanese. Someone I know with a strong Kira Kira name would be my distant relative. His name is Human. This isn’t a typo, his name is literally human.

@brandonhughes4076

Жыл бұрын

What's the kana reading of that? フマン?

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person

Жыл бұрын

Funny how Eito, if he was in Brazil, people would think his name is Heitor, like from Composer Heitor Villa-Lôbos or the Trojan Prince that fought Brad Pit...Achilles. He'd pass as a Japanese-Brazilian quite easily, specially in São Paulo, where people have entire, normal japanese names as a surname and a normal Brazilian name as a given name. EX: Back in school, a Colleague of mine had the name Fernando Koichi Tsurukawa, and people thought Koichi was a surname.

@m4tta

Жыл бұрын

are you sure your relative is not an alien who tries to blend in?

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

I guess his parents had a fun time when they named him "Human". 😆 But technically, they wasn't wrong about it tho.

@Tomtom_tiger79

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonhughes4076 it’s ひゅうまん in hiragana!

Not kira-kira and I'm not even sure if its a recent trend, but there's a theme in Japanese siblings' names in that they'll often share a common sound or kanji. It's mostly fine and you end up with sisters named Shouko and Kyouko or Aika and Rika. But I know of a family with three boys that my friend taught at elementary school who were named 健太郎 (Kentaro), 光太郎 (Koutaro) and 三太郎 (Santaro). The parents went with 'Healthy Son', 'Bright Son' then gave up and went with 'Third Son'.

@DajJednego

Жыл бұрын

Poor Third :(

@Nameless-ny8nk

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my uncle and his sons...The 3 of them are called Lenin ☠️ I remember when my aunt was pregnant with the youngest (I was like 5 btw) they said they were going to call him Lenin too and I told them that was a stupid idea, my mom got so mad...

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

Well... That's sounds more like an on fashion coming back again. Because in the past they used to give names like "1st born" "2nd born" or "1st son" "2nd son" etc.

@cahilljoe

Жыл бұрын

@@tovarishcheleonora8542 Number your kids. Simple and efficient.

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

@@cahilljoe Yeah true. But to be honest, you can't really give a pretty name for a boy without making it too feminine, sooo it not really matters. 😅

Philippines here. Family has a photography business. We do graduation portraits for schools so we go through a lot of kids' names. I used to work here, attaching names to image files for each student. Here are some first names that are notable: R-R Emem Jison Tom Cruise (yes this is just the first name) Buhawe Jack Rzl Sange and Yasha (twins) Phil Collins Abcde Abcdef There are more but I can't remember them

@budakbaongsiah

Жыл бұрын

Fucking DotA players naming their kids after the game's items

@blueplasma

11 ай бұрын

I would name my twins sange and yasha

@paradawnwashere

11 ай бұрын

In my country, sange means "horny" But I think the pronounciation of sange in Philippine is different from mine 🤔

@budakbaongsiah

11 ай бұрын

@@paradawnwashere No, that Sange name is from an item on a videogame.

@paradawnwashere

11 ай бұрын

@@budakbaongsiah oh, what game?

Fantastic video. I actually have a Kira Kira name as well. My parents named me Miguel using 海(ミ)夏(ゲ)瑠(ル). Characters picked out because I was born in a beach town in the summer. Luckily, I moved away from Japan at an early age so I didn’t face any stigma or anything but it’s always interesting when I have to fill out any paperwork.

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

1 of Japan's political parties meanwhile was led by a migrant from Taiwan/the ROC whose name IIRC is 莲 ('lotus') (Lián) 芳 (Fāng); she would keep these Chinese characters in her name when translated from her native Chinese mother tongue to Japanese kanji (which uses a similar writing script), which in the latter is pronounced as 'Renho' instead & is meaningless though

@illford

Ай бұрын

If i saw a lost of names of people whilst working in japan and I saw a guy named Miguel and a Japanese surname I'd be weirdly scared

The funniest thing about Light Yagami having a « kira kira » name (aside from the obvious pun) is that, given how traditional Soichiro is, and the fact that that Light’s younger sister Sayu has a more usual name, it either means Sachiko chose Light’s name and Soichiro couldn’t deny his wife, or that Soichiro went through a _massive_ hipster phase in his early 30s.

@K3end0

Жыл бұрын

I love that headcanon

@biggusdickus1689

Жыл бұрын

Funny interpretation!

@mrkiky

Жыл бұрын

I think he may have had a glimpse of Light not being "all there" at some point so he decided to give his daughter a normal name to be on the safe side 😂

@Poodleinacan

Жыл бұрын

He was a free spirit 🤣🤣🤣

@user-kk3xu8yz3u

8 ай бұрын

The fact is, I dared to use an unusual name so that people with the same name wouldn't be bullied.

I'm Mexican and I'm baffled that japanese parents do the same bs we do lmao Here are some examples of names I've heard: -Brayán (Bryan) -Leidy (Lady in English) -Mileidi (Milady, literally) -Dayana (Diana) -Chuarzeneger (Schwarzenegger, yes, like the actor) -Leider ('Unfortunately' in german)

@devofficialchannel

Жыл бұрын

*tips fedora* Mileidi

@Spagettigeist

Жыл бұрын

@@pomelo9518 Lieder does mean songs, but you need to look at the word more closely.... it's "LEIDER", which yes, as the previous poster mentioned, means unfortunately.

@zitzak2794

Жыл бұрын

@@SpagettigeistThe meaning in Dutch is much less unfortunate, though, meaning “leader”

@Spagettigeist

Жыл бұрын

@@zitzak2794 I guess that's what makes languages intersting ^.^

@alexander1055

Жыл бұрын

@@zitzak2794 it means Ladder

In Iceland we have pretty strict rules and even a government agency that controls a list of names that you can give your child. Sometimes people try and get new names added to the list, at times they get accepted and people can henceforth chose that name for their child. But it has to follow certain rules/criteria for that. Other times (pretty often actually) they get straight up denied.

@clanDeCo

5 ай бұрын

L iceland

@anima94

5 ай бұрын

W Iceland, saving thousands of kids from being bullied and rejected

@ThizOne

5 ай бұрын

Of course you shouldn't be able to name you kid Batman or some sh!t like that. But the laws here are unnecessarily strict though. @@anima94

An example of a kira kira name I’ve encountered is a teacher talking about a student who got accepted into my school but dropped out at the last minute. When what who this student’s name is the teacher answered “Feliz Navidad”

i once knew this girl named "female", she claimed that she got her name because she was born in mexico while her parents were on vacation. the mom was the only one who spoke spanish but since she just gave birth she was, you know... not really functioning... and so when they asked the mom for the name the dad got confused and thought they were asking for the gender and told them "female". she pronounces it like how you say tamale, just with an f instead of a t.

@MUFFiB

Жыл бұрын

ahh i see, glad to see you had the freedom of choice to change your name to something more thought out and respectable, cellular device

@w花b

Жыл бұрын

​@@MUFFiB Straight to the point. What do you want more?

@crinsombone5380

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like a comedy skit

@anonymousloris

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for her

@michaelcherokee8906

Жыл бұрын

I heard this story from my grandmother about 15 years ago, I was certain it was just an urban legend.

It’s funny because I teach English in Japan and Ojisama also means “old man”, so when the kids say Prince in Japanese I’m always like “why did you call him an old man? He’s not old.” And they laugh and say “no, old man is pronounced o-gee-sama.” You lengthen the “ee” sound. Prince is just “Oji-sama” you say it fast. So now whenever I need to say old man in Japanese during class, I always exaggerate the “ee” sound and I’m like o-geeeeeeeeeeee-sama and the kids crack up.

Imagine changing the kid's name from Pikachu to Satoshi and now the kid's gained eternal youth

this makes me interested in unique names/readings that aren't total cringe. i think "kosumo" isn't bad either

@jhawkshaw

Жыл бұрын

Tho if your name is "Cosmo" in the West, everyone around you would think of Fairly Odd Parents first lmao

@OrangeC7

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. Some of these seem more tasteful to me than others. I think it's fine for names to be _unique,_ but like with 光宙 (pikachuu), they should probably at least sound like names first

@pumpkin91ful

Жыл бұрын

​@@jhawkshaw Cosmo Is old but used in Italy, there Is also a Saint.

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

@@jhawkshaw Depends on how old the person are. Because some people would think to the alcoholic drink instead.

@dillhuang5988

Жыл бұрын

It's probably something they picked up from reading the Saint Seiya manga. Not bad, but not something I'd name my kids after either.

Yes princess is a very common name for girls in the Philippines and more common to have a second name after that. And a lot of local celebrity are named Princess. Fun fact in the late 80s to 90s the anime Princess Sarah/Little Princess Sara is so huge they did a live adaptation of that here in my country.

@sakiamira

Жыл бұрын

IS THAT WHY SARAH WAS SUCH A POPULAR NAME? I DIDNT KNOW

@kassart4465

Жыл бұрын

Oh right and Prince too from "Little Prince Cedie"

@enoshima6699

Жыл бұрын

the boxer Manny Pacquiao has a daughter named, Queen Elizabeth Pacquiao.

@RadenWA

Жыл бұрын

Funny thing the Ōjisama dude can get out of his pickle by just going full Kira Kira and read 王子様 as プリンス (Prince)

@nulnoh219

Жыл бұрын

姫 Hime is a popular name too... Princess.

as a filipina i cannot tell you enough how many people name their kids Princess/Prince. I even watched a documentary where one of the kid's names was 'queenche'.

@SaintJames14

2 ай бұрын

Is the pronunciation different? I imagine it must sound "cool" to the Filipino ear right?

@user-pt5cl2ro6f

Ай бұрын

@@SaintJames14 Nope. We use the english alphabet. It literally sounds the same (unless spoken with an accent, in which it just makes it sounds stronger in a lot of cases. Less ˈprinsəs or ˈprinˌses, and more Prrin-ses - stronger R, shorter syllables). The parents of that time were probably thinking it sounded graceful when is was still uncommon, but as most results of trends, it cheapened the notion.

@SaintJames14

24 күн бұрын

@@user-pt5cl2ro6f ngl that sucks to hear. Weird and kind of arrogant name imo, like Prince or King which happens in the west sometimes. Thanks for the explanation though, be well

Here in Finland we have pretty strict naming rules unfortunately/fortunately. It has it's good and bad sides. It prevents parents from naming their child after products, or mundane items that are easy to make fun of. Of course, I know from experience that even with a pretty normal first name kids will find a way to rip on you, but the chance is lessened. But on the other hand, the rules about the name having to follow not only the Finnish alphabet but also Finnish conventions means names that have extremely easy spelling and pronounciation aren't allowed if the name is "too foreign". Meanwhile the board approved these names: - Häkä (Carbon Monoxide) - Anoo (Doesn't even follow Finnish pronounciation rules and means "is begging") - Pöly (Dust) - Saturnus (Saturn) - Taide (Art) - Unikonsiemen (Poppy seed) - Yennefer (Hard to pronounce, doesn't follow convention) - Kide-Pilvi (Crystal cloud) - Flea (Just the English word Flea) - Kissa (Cat) - Äälö (One letter away from being dumbass) - Lootussydän (Lotus heart) And a bunch of names with hard pronounciation that sound extremely silly (not because they mean anything, just the sound) and don't follow convention, just sound "Finnish enough" so the rules are extremely arbitrary and not consistent at all. And if your name already fits old names you can make combos that mean stuff like "Dude Drunkerthon" basically, I've met them.

@smdd8492

5 ай бұрын

BRB, gonna go buy a lotus root to get to that lootussy

@theghostofspookwagen4715

5 ай бұрын

Saturnus is indeed a legitimate name, just one that sounds REALLY old fashioned to me.

@illford

Ай бұрын

Would they allow Jamal

I'm starting to see a pattern in the gender of kira kira names. Girls tend to like their names because others accept kira kira names as cute and quirky, while boys tend to be made fun of due to a social stigma of having to be serious and looked up to. Their name prohibits them from being taken seriously.

@malinasworld

Жыл бұрын

Who says the girls aren’t taken seriously? You think some employer somewhere didn’t scoff as he or she tossed aside a resume from a ‘Mystique Dewdrop Smith’? The few examples here can’t be indicative of anything. I’ve heard of boys named Rex, Brick and Tanner who totally own their names.

@racool911

Жыл бұрын

@@malinasworld I think it's ridiculous for resume readers to discriminate based on people's real names. People who do that should be ashamed

@megashima

Жыл бұрын

@@racool911 It is ridiculous but unfortunately very common. I'm unsure is this happens as often, but they would take note of your name if it was foreign-sounding like Ishmael or maybe Trayvon to try and gage your race beforehand.

@malinasworld

Жыл бұрын

@Racool That’s cool but it does happen, and a lot. Especially when you consider that most industries have a high demand and low supply of jobs: so you have a lot of people with equal credentials applying for one post, then your method of selection becomes more arbitrary and personal. It’s not just employers: if you had to chose between visiting two equally credible doctors (or lawyers, etc), would do go with Dr. Moonshine or Dr. Lewis?

@314rft

Жыл бұрын

Seems similar to why there's more strange girl names in the US, honestly.

I’m Hispanic from the Caribbean. I live in a predominantly Hispanic community. Some of the names I’ve heard in my community are pretty hilarious. Here are some of my faves: - Leidy (lady) - Sunami (tsunami) - Usnavy (US Navy, pronounced oos-nah-vee) - Usmail (US Mail, pronounced oos-mah-eel) - Maipu (pronounced my-poo) 💀

@noid3571

Жыл бұрын

Imagine becoming a teacher and god damn US Mail pulls up in your classroom 💀

@nerdwisdomyo9563

Жыл бұрын

Usnavy is the main character in Washington heights

@dayman7136

Жыл бұрын

I have a good one with a similar logic from a small town in Mexico, calendars had a date marked as "aniv de la rev" short "aniversario de la revolución" (aniversary of the revolution) and I met someone named just that: anivdelarev

@cb4allstar2

Жыл бұрын

Related, but I did meet a guy from the Dominican Republic who was half Japanese and he got a "technically" kira-kira name that was "George". Don't remember the kanji spelling but it did read as "jyou-ji" as well.

@lawrenz9306

Жыл бұрын

"we got mail for Usmail"💀💀💀💀

I know about 20 people in my city alone who's name's Angel. Pretty common actually for a Catholic nation like ours. Maybe it sounds feminine so it's usually a girl's name & mostly paired with another name (parents here usually give their children two names e.g. Angel Christine so you end up with a very common name such as Angel Christine Reyes Mendoza for a girl..). We also have variations of it such as Cherubim, & surnames such as Archangel... Princess & "Queenie" too. Though they're mostly viewed as outdated and/or lazy if by themselves. Since the Philippines is a former US, Spanish, & Japanese colony, the names here are 9 times out of 10, American sounding first names + Spanish last names. I'm half-Japanese so my name's actually American-Greek-Spanish-Japanese in origin..

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

I have a male colleague that's called Angel too

In the Soviet times there were a lot of "revolutionary" names. Some of them sounded okay or even were written like some conventional names (for example Damir). But there were also a lot hideous names like Barrikada (barricade), Dazdraperma (short for "da zdravstvuyet pervoye maya" which is roughly translated as "hail the first of May") or Traktor (tractor). After it collapsed, peoplse started using a lot of "fancy" names: some were just western ones like Albert or Mark, but there were also some Princes, Princesses, Lords, Grafs (counts), and after Russian invasion Bayraktar and Dzhavelina (named after Baykar Bayraktar TB2 and FGM-148 Javelin respectively).

@Jay-kw2ph

2 ай бұрын

Imagine being named tractor broooo

@ZenoDovahkiin

2 ай бұрын

Traktor, holy fuck.

@hive2117

2 ай бұрын

my favorites are gertruda, except its short for героиня труда (heroine of labor) and all the lenin variants like vladlen, vil (vladimir ilich lenin)... also kukucapol- кукуруза царица полей, corn the empress of fields

I met a 光宙 in an elementary school when I was teaching in Akita. He had his nametag on, and it was my first time visiting the school. I tried to read it (of course there was no furigana), and I said, "お名前、「こう・・・ち」と言いますか。" and he was like, nope, it's Pikachu. I laughed a bit, and then said, "but umm... " and his teacher in the back of the room was just flailing her arms wildly trying to get me to stop. Poor guy.

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

That's sounds fun experience.

@awdrifter3394

Жыл бұрын

It would be funny if your name was Ash.

@Aaa-vp6ug

2 ай бұрын

@@awdrifter3394Pokémon Journeys: Live Action edition 9.99¥ Or just 10 Yen for normal people! Yes we will charge you extra for not worshipping us. Edit: well, given it’s cinema and Yen are basically pennies… 999999999999¥ Okay, that’s too much.

@_romili4yt_

Ай бұрын

​@@awdrifter3394 or Satoshi

As a trainee teacher, nothing could ever prepare me for the whiplash I was going to receive when I read the Headmistress's name "Sabun binti Basah" (Soap, daughter of Wet), and the retired Headmaster "Buang bin Sampah" ( [to]Throw, son of Garbage) during my one-week assessment at school

@Mag_ladroth

Жыл бұрын

Are you Indian?

@indiradefa3733

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀 hope their kids didn't get the same treatment

@heistingcrusader_ad3223

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mag_ladroth no I think they are either Malay or Indonesian

@sikul3237

Жыл бұрын

Anjir nama apa tu

@HudaefCares

Жыл бұрын

In Tagalog "Sabun binti Basah" would be _soap leg wet_ lmfao

Some parents name their kids DeathStar and we’ll never fully comprehend why

With how many folks named ‘Angel’ I know, im actually really surprised Tenshi isnt used as a name.

I feel like the the flexibility of kanji is both a blessing and a curse. It's great for word play (one of my favourite examples is the music genre "夜好性," pronounced "yakousei" meaning "nocturnal" but with kanji vaguely meaning "those who love the night") and adds a lot of depth and nuance to the language, but it's like some people just really wanna push it with some of these names. Not to mention how hard it is to memorise all the readings.

@RadenWA

Жыл бұрын

Kanji is basically just Chinese characters stuck into many different native words of the similar meaning, just like emoji. So technically it should apply to foreign words too. Anyone can read 夜 as “night” if they so please.

@achuuuooooosuu

Жыл бұрын

@@RadenWA Japanese is so unique in this, it's very interesting. Whereas in the Chinese language, it's usually strictly just one pronunciation, with exceptions like 了 (le or liao).

@killhour

Жыл бұрын

@@RadenWA This happens with 頁, which means "page" and is usually pronounced ページ (basically just sounds like page).

@SomeIdiota

Жыл бұрын

This is specifically the thing that has kept me from learning Japanese despite wanting to for 25 years. It's hard enough to go from one writing system to another without having to add extra guesswork in the middle.

@RadenWA

Жыл бұрын

@@killhour and 缶

Reminds me of parents calling their child "Abcde" pronounced "AB-si-dee". Some parents are so focused on giving their child a "unique" name that they don't think or care about the effect it will have on the child growing up.

@user-jn4oe9sb5z

Жыл бұрын

Agreed it feels insidious to name your child something hard to read, strange or just bad to make their life "more unique" unless youre willing to change your name with them don't do it. Children arent supposed to be our little experiements or whats to vicariously live through them without the consequences. Or little acessories

@Randomela

Жыл бұрын

bro where im from a girl was named aeiou (eiyuu) and theres another girl with an all consonant name thats also really long and a mashup of family members' names

@umbrieliya7867

Жыл бұрын

I attended a graduation years ago where a student's last name was Abcde and was pronounced Ab-see-dee 😅

@NaZhifah-dr1oq

Жыл бұрын

parents like that think children are pets, worst even are dolls. its so stupid. theyre human beings who will later have their own lives

@LuckySketches

Жыл бұрын

This one's especially unfortunate because my first inclination was to read it as "Abesidy," which sounds way too similar to "obesity."

Bro the Pegasus reference straight into the Shaggy impersonation was inspirational. I'm new to your channel but man, I'm sticking around.

This was a really well organized video! I'm hungry for more content like this!

In the new anime "Oshi no Ko", the main character's name is Aquamarine, and is written out 愛久愛海. Literally love, long-time, love, ocean. Except 海 is pronounced using the english word marine! The first three kanji can be pronounced a-ku-a. No wonder he goes by アクア.

@Kettvnen

Жыл бұрын

and if you think about the story it makes sense as well, Ai (the mother) gave him the name after giving birth to him, and she was 16 at that time, so maybe someone young would be more likely to name their children these types of names

@hansnassau2732

Жыл бұрын

@@Kettvnen Yes

@BQD_Central

Жыл бұрын

Well that's at least how celebrities would name their kids in real life as well. At first I thought their names were written in Katakana only, but then I saw the Kanji version of it. It's pretty nuts.

@Kettvnen

Жыл бұрын

@@BQD_Central true, ive seen famous people naming their children weird named its honestly pitiful

@commenter4898

Жыл бұрын

@@Kettvnen It's not just the age. The mother in the story is supposed to be uneducated and dorky.

I think Princess and Prince names are more common in the Philippines than most people think. It doesn’t sound weird to the locals and it just means to me that the child was loved by their family. What’s weird for me is when some people from here started naming their child with names from Anime and video games, like that one kid named Naruto lmaoo.

@adelalovesmadara4062

Жыл бұрын

Naruto 😂

@gooby_bogs

Жыл бұрын

Gusion Lodicakes

@adelalovesmadara4062

Жыл бұрын

@@gooby_bogs マ？

@Goldfinger1718

Жыл бұрын

@@gooby_bogs I pity anyone who names their child that

@gooby_bogs

Жыл бұрын

@@Goldfinger1718 i feel worse for the one who has that name, dude will def get bullied in the future...

Just picked up this channel by chance - some really interesting insights into modern Japan👍 Subscribed !

Akuma's dad literally said " my son's gonna do life hard mode"

In the US there's also issues with parents giving their children names that are near unpronouncable or common nouns because they want the name to be "unique". In the first category you get names like "KVIIIlynn" (Kaitlyn), Paishynce (Patience), and "Cenadii" (Kennedy). In the second you get options like Beige, Story, Suede, and Armor.

@primalknight

Жыл бұрын

imo both are funny and/or cool. as long as the name isnt a pop culture reference or something like fuqq or sheet, as a kid, id be fine with it. though, unique pronounciation could be too silly for some, i feel like we've been naming ourselves with words for quite some time

@WalkInMyPawsteps

Жыл бұрын

@@primalknight idk, I once dated someone with a name like that (I don't want to say the actual name but for example, it was kind of like "Kyle" but spelled like "Kyghgle") and he had a huge complex around his name. Every single time you change grades, teachers will get your name wrong and will continuously say it wrong at times, you get your name spelled wrong on government documents, when you're an adult people still fail to spell or say your name correctly when referring to you. His brother also had a type of name like that and they both hated it and now both of them go by different names. On the other hand, my name and my sister's names are common nouns and I don't mind it at all. As long as it's done with regards to how the person will grow up and be treated by other people, it's not bad.

@vazazell5967

Жыл бұрын

Let's be real, English deserves this abuse for being non phonetical

@equilibrum999

Жыл бұрын

Qwilyn

@equilibrum999

Жыл бұрын

@@primalknight plot twist: y no born in usa and no in uka so name fauq doesnt mean the same in y lingua

Japanese parents now: hehe, Angel Japanese parents back then: Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no-shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopī-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke

@AttaBek1422

Жыл бұрын

Shortest name of a Japanese Kami 💀

@theKobus

Жыл бұрын

What a coincidence! My name is ALSO tikki-tikki-tembo-no-sarembo-chari-bari-ruchi-pip-peri-pembo

@mintminttsontson

Жыл бұрын

what if there is a guy that is named "Purikyua Jugemu Jugemu a Nerli Infinito On Urtimato Marino Suplasho Mega Wef Duragon Tropikaru Manga Kiwi Rimbo Danzu Tappity-tappu Kurasshu Niagara Showeru Furayin Phoenix Suparru Servingu offu Levelu 100 Supaiciness Furi Rifil offu Fatty Roastu Beauty Legend Passingu Shottu Laura Appollodoros Hyginus La Mer,Grando Ocean Cuteso to Sumartosu Beauty Queen offu All Queen Bubberu Bomberu Furoral Pinku to Purpuro Shadow Fall Line Rat-Ta-Tat Puncho Kururun Kururun Kururun Run,Shuringan to Gurindai,Lando Bitto Dainamiko" (From tropical Rouge Pretty Cure)

@HenryNWhite-zp5zp

Жыл бұрын

Choito ojikan itadakimasu

@amourfaerie

Жыл бұрын

@@mintminttsontson rare precure fan sighting... /pos

Great video! Informative and interesting. Especially as a big fan of Death Note, I was really surprised to see that come up but it really made me happy to get that added context.

6:37 as a someone with a May main friend I almost had a heart attack with that "YAMADA SAN!!".

The update at 11:20 is interesting. If I remember right, one of the volumes of the Bleach manga had an author's note that was like "I just got a letter from a fan that they named their son after Ichigo, and I'm hyperventilating", b/c it's a joke in the manga that Ichigo has a 'girl' name, but with manly kanji.

@thenightjackal

Жыл бұрын

and he got that 15 drip

In indonesia there was a man named "Kentut" which means "Fart". He changed it legally after he got famous nationwide because of his name back in 2018. The trial to change his name legally was on the news even.

@ahmadzarkasyi929

Жыл бұрын

Indonesian "kira kira" name is not that deep because Indonesian had been writing with Latin Alphabet.... But their ability to name with weird names : both traditionalist and modern parent is just ..... Just imagine naming your child as Tuhan (God) 😂😂

12:01 Also, there is politician who's name is Lord Allan Velaso, and yes “Lord" is a part of his name, not a given title and his actual first name really is “Lord Allan”

5:01 Almost correct for french, the pronunciation is correct but we spell it "Marie", it resulted in variants like Marine, Mariane, or Marion later. Awesome video btw, it's so intersting to see how people select names on such a different basis in other countries ! ^^

I LOVE the attitude princess candy has. Its such a cute name and her saying the only thing she would change it to is queen candy is absolutely wonderful.

@dlivingstonmcpherson

11 ай бұрын

Yes, Queen! Er.. Princess! Either way I hope more positive attitudes towards diversity prevail in Japan

This reminded me of something that happened in Chile, where some names like like Elsa Pito (translates to the little toad) or Armando Casas (translates to making houses) are prohibited with the purpouse of protecting the child. However, the one thing that isn't prohibited, are Last name combinations (Chile uses 2 last names, the father's first last name first, and the mother's first last name last, the mother doesn't lose her last name when married). So when a couple conformed by a man with the "Rey" (meaning King) last name, and a woman with the italian last name "Follador" (which unfortunately translates to spanish as "the man who fucks/has sex"). The kid born from that marriage had the last names Rey Follador (THE KING OF SEX) Which is very funny but also kinda sad

@HugoreLB

Жыл бұрын

"Follador" isn't by any means italian lmao

@LuckySketches

Жыл бұрын

I bet he was popular in College.

@Ildskalli

Жыл бұрын

While the story of Rey Follador is true, it's false that we have any laws against degrading names here in Chile. The "creativity" of parents in this country can often induce massive amounts of cringe, and there's nothing stopping them. Merilin Monroi, Jack Daniels and Elvis Presley have been inflicted as first and second names to poor creatures, as well as the awful "Madeinusa", "Iloveny" and "Usnavy". I'll let the reader figure out the origin of those three.

@TheHeavyModd

Жыл бұрын

Had a proper giggle at this one hahaha

@Tiny_Koi

Жыл бұрын

Omg this is too funny of a comment but ngl Elsa Pito goes hard as fuck. Bout to change my name to little toad

Here in Brazil people like to come up with different ways to write a common name. For example, my name is Giovanna but I always have to tell people how it's written because with the same pronunciation there are Giovana, Geovana, Geovanna, Gyovana, Jeovana, etc.... Most of the time people like to double letters (like L-> LL, N-> NN), add random Hs , and change I to Y

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

I've seen some Malay names that're like that too I think e.g. Lili (

ESL teacher here - had a Chinese student named Huaizhe (dont know the characters, sry). His grandmother or smth had a lot of respect for a German doctor in her town, so she gave her son his name as a family name: Schweizer

Not sure if they count as "kira-kira" as much as the more prominent examples in the video, but there are a lot of Japanese people with names of Western origins that are then changed to be written and spoken in Japanese (kind of like the guy fluent in German). Heck, names like "Karen" and "Erika" are commonly accepted Japanese names that also exist in the West.

@Lerooy872

Жыл бұрын

可憐 (Karen) as a word means "vulnerable but beautiful." As a name you can use kanji like 夏恋(summer love)、花蓮(lotus flower)、華怜(fabulous and clever). They sound so cute, unlike the western meme.

@m4tta

Жыл бұрын

there’s this girl from the band Babymetal who’s name is Moa which is a scandinavian name but she writes it in japanese

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

Depends on how you write it actually. Because that not a "kira kira ne-mu" if it written in katakana.

@d0sky

Жыл бұрын

@@Lerooy872 "unlike the western meme", it's hard to pick which's more controversial

@bestrafung2754

Жыл бұрын

Yeah some are clever and make sense, such as Karen which can be written in many nice ways. There's also Risa which comes from 'Lisa' and, while usually written in hiragana only, can be written in kanji and not be too weird. I think it's alright if it at least makes some sense, isn't too weird, and the reading for the kanji are used. Chinese and Korean people do it all the time when they go to Japan and I imagine their children will end up with some Chinese name but with the Japanese reading. You could even come up with some made up but clever names if you tried.

Reminds me of some of my classmates in elementary in the Philippines from the late 90s, namely: Jollibee, Babydoll, Barbie, Honey Sugar, male Jennifer, Apple, Princess, Prince and I am not lying....even my colleague (Filipino) who married a Japanese woman named their daughter Reyna (Queen) Miyuki. Plus don't get me started with some of the Filipino last names. When I was in uni, a guy I shared class with has an unfortunate surname that translates to "penis bending". I hope life is treating him well. Also, my real name is so absurd that I only go by my nickname, except for official govt documents.

@NoneHandle2023

Жыл бұрын

The real question is, what’s your name?

@xxnekonekox

Жыл бұрын

For real I watch these philipino youtubers and the girl in the videos is name apple

@gyvn1505

Жыл бұрын

You should see that one Rated K episode where it showcased a lot of bizarre names for Filipinos. Some that I remember were "Spaghetti '98" and "Drink Water"

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

I think some people at this point are just trolling around when they have to name the child.

@ROBOHOLIC1

Жыл бұрын

I feel this on a spiritual level. My parents gave me Spanish-Jewish and Anglo names for my full name.

This video’s really interesting. What’s more interesting is the comments that everyone shares their countries’ weird names. Can’t love this more! ❤

What a cool video, it was a very nice watch. I remember watching Assassination Classroom and it actually addressed the issue of a Kira Kira name for a bit. It’s fun to get more context of things I saw from elsewhere.

In Sweden they don't allow names for children that might cause ridicule for the child but if the parents wants their child to have a unique name its not uncommon for it to get accepted they just need to argue for it. Like i remember parents wanting their girl to be called Puma. And the dad explained it to be slang for a fierce handsome girl. Which was accepted.

@greatwave2480

Жыл бұрын

Puma actually sounds nice if you don't think too much about it... In my language a male child can actually be named "a lion" and it doesn't sound too odd, maybe just a little old fashioned.

@user-sw8qi3cb2l

Жыл бұрын

​@@greatwave2480 Лев?

@guargest3613

Жыл бұрын

@@user-sw8qi3cb2l у меня батю зовут Лев, и у меня отчество Львович, а деда Альберт

@laughingseagull000

Жыл бұрын

But pumas are also called cougars, and a cougar is slang for a middle aged woman who goes after young men.

@olleani

Жыл бұрын

@laughingseagull8869 Well it's Swedish we only have the words puma or mountain lion

9:58 In case you were wondering what that tweet said, Hajime says that his mother chose that name on her own, so she wasn't happy about it, then she divorced Hajime's father, she got custody over Hajime, remarried, had another child, whom she also named some crazy thing, and then it turned out she was cheating, so now they (not sure if he means himself or his step-father) cut ties with each other. Yeah, she's a real piece of work, that one.

@YuBeace

Жыл бұрын

This lady is covered in red flags, starting with naming your child without your partner's consent, continuing all the way to SEEING the child being mocked and still being offended when the kid doesn't want the name anymore.

@vivvy_0

Жыл бұрын

someone needs therapy..

@KF-zb6gi

Жыл бұрын

she needs to change her name

@Avantime

Жыл бұрын

@@YuBeace Never stick your d**k in crazy.

Very great video! Because you have to consider both the meaning of the kanji and the pronunciation gives so much room for these weird names. Here in Germany there’s also laws regulating on how you can name your child. It says that the name „must be recognisable as a first name“, that’s why parents trying to name their child „summer“ „rain“ or „princess“ got rejected. Still there exists funny names. For example there’s actually a person called „Max Mustermann“ (the German equivalent of „John Doe“), or persons called „Troblemaker“ (Störenfried) or „puppet“ (Puppe)

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In my country, we had people named "Anti Dandruf" "Dontworry", and "Andy Go To School", so kirakira names like this are actually much more tame in comparison.

@ssychostella

Жыл бұрын

What country is this? 😭

@ssychostella

Жыл бұрын

What country is this? 😭

@BlueV205

Жыл бұрын

@@ssychostella A small country we like to call Indonesia

@lexprontera8325

10 ай бұрын

I was not ready for "Anti Dandruf". I am rolling on the floor. 🤣

@lzh4950

7 ай бұрын

I meanwhile had a colleague who migrated from Indonesia who was surnamed Romanoff; when I told my friend about it that caught their attention right away "Wow isn't that Black Widow from the Avengers?"

I guess it's kinda weird how over time some common nouns become accepted as normal names while others are seen as weird, and how that changes with each language. Like how naming someone "Pearl" is generally okay in a lot of languages (like, Pearl, Pérola, Shinju are all normal names), but most gems and jewels are a gray area that might make your child's name sound like a stripper. That there are okay flower names to give your child and others that are weird (and those vary by culture), and that some random nouns like Temperance or Hope or Vitória(victory) are totally fine names but any other word and it's odd.

@jofx4051

Жыл бұрын

It is just feel common that name are not that original... They must be inspired by something

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

And even weirder when you country uses the flower names as female names (and have a law about that you have to be able to tell if it's male or female by just hearing it) and then you see that one flower name what is a male name. Like as how the actual F it did went through the system to begin with? X'D

@feniks6681

Жыл бұрын

@@tovarishcheleonora8542 Grammatical gender

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

@@feniks6681 My country's language not have that. XD Just very weird and strict laws for given names. :'D

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

​@@tovarishcheleonora8542 finnish?

I think in Germany they will not entirely infrequently stop parents from naming their kids things. Like Elon musk would have been barred from naming his kid that because they can obviously predict that it's going to be like an awkward social burden on the child.

I am so glad that i have found your Channel 👍 really interesting.

As a Thai, we do have these shiny names also, but as nicknames. We love naming our full official name majestically in something like Sanskrit, then it became too long and awkward to be called by them, we then have a given nickname for casual calling.

@NiCeNuKNaN

8 ай бұрын

Someone in Thailand name like รรรรรรรร. It pronouces : "Ra Ran Rorn" Yes, it kinda weird but people recognize and find it funny.

@romanr.301

4 ай бұрын

People in Thailand be like: “My real name means ‘Eternal Serenade for the Heavens’”, but my friends call me “Fish.”

@user-pt5cl2ro6f

Ай бұрын

@@romanr.301 LMAO. I love that particular part of the culture.

@oo8962

13 күн бұрын

Thai nicknames are so wild lol. They literally use random English word for the nicknames (I'm not thai but I've seen some thai movies)

Chinese and Koreans also have it hard. An exchange student from Shanghai at my uni in Kanagawa was names Wang Shidong 王老师東 (literally means "master of the east") but the sino-japanese reading of his name is... Oh Shi-tou. Teachers had to call out OH SHIT all the time. And guess what? Japanese people don't want to lend the japanese pronounciation of kanji to people who aren't japanese. So even on his ID and student card he was Oh Shit.

@brandonhughes4076

Жыл бұрын

That sounds really disrespectful, not gonna lie. Imagine you move to foreign country and they refuse to call you by the correct pronunciation of your name even when their pronunciation sounds ridiculous. Are Japanese really that protective over a script they adopted from Chinese in the first place?

@crocsy1439

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonhughes4076 Unless they request a name change, Chinese and Korean residents names are always read in the sino-japanese pronounciation. Unless someone has a Chinese or Korean name that can double as a Japanese name (like Yangzi 洋子 could be Yoshiko, Tao 桃 could be Momo) and they get people to call them that, Japanese are able to distinguish Chinese and Koreans by the kanji of their names. Monosillabic family names like Wang, Park, Chen, Kim, etc. are rare in Japan (only one I can think off is Hara 原), so that give it off immediately.

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that while playing Genshin Impact. There's this region in the game based on China, called Liyue. Everyone there have chinese names like Gan'yu or Hutao or Ningguang. I play with the JP dub because I like the seiyuu's work there, and suddenly little Paimon starts talking about some "Gyoukou" and I'm like: Who TF is Gyoukou? I'm talking to Ningguang here, did someone from Inazuma(the in-game region based on Edo-era Japan) appear here? Then comes the region based on the middle east, iran and india, and they said their as normal such as Tighnari or Nahida. Sure, they didn't pronounce those weird consonants because how many people can pronounce the gh, and I'd never expect anyone outside China or speaking a tonal language to ever get the tones of the chinese characters right, but Who TF is Gyoukou?

@cumonodalio3938

Жыл бұрын

@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person I think it's similar to that how people in different countrys pronounce latin words or cognate words from latin. for example, "Caesar" sounds like "see-zer" in English and "kai-sar" in Italian.

@angelbear_og

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonhughes4076 Imagine you move to a foreign country and expect them to change their culture JUST FOR YOU.

I love the concept of Ateji, words using Kanji with substantial meaning behind it. Could you do a video on that some day?

To be fair, the prefix “saint” is relatively common in English. So like Nigel St Nigel. It’s usually a last name, but it’s still not completely uncommon. Last names like Pope, King, and Bishop are also normal.

The ojisama story reminded me of a funny incident that happened when a new Japanese teacher came to teach us and an upper classmate who's name was IHSSAN. The teacher thought he was adding the honorific San to his name when he introduced himself LOL

@ankokunokayoubi

Жыл бұрын

Ihsan/Ehsan sounds like Arabic-derived Malay name though

@houditto

Жыл бұрын

@@ankokunokayoubi it is Arabic. IDK about Malay !?

@Lindaine

Жыл бұрын

​@@houditto It's common in indonesian too and I believe it's because arabic influence over malaysia and indonesia

@tovarishcheleonora8542

Жыл бұрын

Uh that sounds weird if you actually want to use the -san honorific on it. "ihssan-san".

@k.umquat8604

Жыл бұрын

İhsan is actually a very good name to name your child. It means "perfection".

2:26 AMOGUS

@Japanalysis

Жыл бұрын

oh no... now i can't unsee it...

@5skdm

11 ай бұрын

as someone who sees that character on a common basis, thanks so much

@sophie________

7 ай бұрын

I think that literally every time I have I type the word and it torments me

7:33 I got flashbacks from Mana (AKA Dark Magician Girl) from Yugioh calling the pharaoh "Oji-sama!!" hilarious😂

When I first came to Japan I was working in a 保育園(hoikuen) as a part time job, and one of the children had the kanji 空 (Sora). I was so happy because this was one of the very few Kanji I could read at the time. Also all the staff use to call him Sora as well so I thought I was right, then I met his parents and mentioned his name in conversation. They then informed me that his name is actually pronounced Sky! Yes the English translation for Sora = Sky! My first thought was are they Hippies?

@ciello___8307

Жыл бұрын

At that point why not use katakana for the name???

@WdymWork

Жыл бұрын

@@ciello___8307ikr so confusing.

@arttig.3377

11 ай бұрын

I assume that is a big part of cringiness. Enjeru or Naito written in katakana may be pretentious, but at least they wouldn't confuse as much.

I remember hearing this story in high school; probably just an urban legend because I can’t find any proof but it’s funny so I’ll share it anyway. But the story goes that a woman who didn’t speak English had given birth to a girl in an American hospital. She kept hearing the nurses say this one word over and over, and the mother thought the word sounded so beautiful so she chose it as her daughter’s name. It was… P L A C E N T A.

@user-ps8cu3vt8e

Жыл бұрын

Placenta sounds like such a cool name though

@laughingseagull000

Жыл бұрын

Placenta means “cake” in Latin. Not that that makes it any better.

@strayiggytv

Жыл бұрын

Most of the time these types of stories never really happened but are instead used as a way to punch down on "dumb foreigners" and push stereotypes.

Great video As a japanese learner, it was interressing. As you asked in the vid, in French Mary is spelled Marie but with the globalisation I think Mary is more current

That kid named 黃熊 is gonna have a wild time if he ever decides to visit china

Man, as someone who has a similar naming scheme to "Enjeru" and "Naito" (not as bad, but definitely was made fun of in elementary school cause of it) I get the struggles of having to deal with people double-taking you when they see/hear it for the first time. Wasn't fun feeling insecure about my name at that time but I've since accepted it and now use it to stand out on Linkedin lmao

5:01 As a Russian I can confirm Maria is a correct name in Russian. I actually had 2 classmates with that name when I was at school. So it's not uncommon to find people who have it.

@jofx4051

Жыл бұрын

Maria is Latin origin and it is also... correct naming in Indonesian

@YouCanCallMeIz

Жыл бұрын

I have a teacher named Maria, who is russian, and also a few acquaintances with the name Masha, which is just a diminutive of Maria. So yeah, not that uncommon. If I remember correctly, it just means Mary, generally, since it's just latin. Now, on a semi-unrelated note, since the word is of latin origin and belongs to the first declension of nouns, that means that two Marias would actually be said two Mariae.

@DR_REDACTED

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Maria is a very common name in Finland too😊

@arystanakmolinskii9226

Жыл бұрын

I also find it weird that Westerners name their children with short forms of Russian names. Like Sasha, Masha, etc.

@YouCanCallMeIz

Жыл бұрын

@@arystanakmolinskii9226 I guess most don't know, and just think those names sound nice. I'm learning russian so that's the only reason I personally know.

I'm glad Princess Candy liked her name, it is sooooo Filipino, when I saw your thumbnail I immediately thought "wait, that is common in the Philippines" because I literally had classmates whose names were Princess and Candy.

My name is Hawk. I think its pretty neat, but I wouldn't advise people naming their kids anything too out of the ordinary. Even my own name has caused me problems, I've had automated services refuse to take my name insisting that I am not a real person.

Mexico has tons of "weird" names. A while back it was also common in some areas to find people named "Batman", "Goku", "Onedollar" (as in "One Dollar" but pronounced diferently), "Usmail" ("US Mail"), etc. I think that sort of names are now prohibited but people still find workarounds, such as naming their kids after foreign soccer players, sometimes giving them the player's full name (like "Cristiano Ronaldo", i.e). There was also a small trend a few years back when a popular national tv channel aired some Turkish romance series and people started naming their kids after either the main character or her love interest (all of them very Turkish names, of course). There's also a lot of foreign names around, so it's kinda common to find people named "Brian" (often misspelled as "Brayan" due to how the parents pronounce it), "Kimberly", and so on, and which leads to many misspellings/different spellings of the same name, so it's common to find cases like -Lissette -Liset -Lisset -Lizet -Lizzet -Liseth -Lysset -Lyssette -Lyzeth (all pronounced the same since they're supposed to be the same name, and which I'm guessing could make any legal/official paperwork a nightmare)

@molotera8789

Жыл бұрын

I have a Jessica, Jesica and Yessika at work

@speedwagoncito

Жыл бұрын

@@molotera8789 No conozco a ninguna, pero me ha tocado ver por ahí también el de "Yesica" en alguna ocasión.

@crispylemon

Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe the usmail one exists. My brain just cannot comprehend it

@speedwagoncito

Жыл бұрын

@@crispylemon Adding to the list, the "Usnavy" one also exists, lol.

@MarcoA3774

Жыл бұрын

También 'Gohan'. Jajaja

as a filipino myself i can confirm that "princess" is a very popular name for girls. i have had friends, classmates, and relatives who bear the name.

Polish guy here. I can confirm we say Maria. Also, thanks for the heads up, I was planning on writing something and wanted to use Japanese names and realized it in one of the names (凰翔 and Koto), I plan on keeping it, though.

When you said Philippines for Princess Candy, I immidietly understood😂 I've had classmates who had names like Princess Rhea, Prancess (maybe like a variation of the name Princess), ans Prince. So yeah. It is true. The name Princess is indeed common here😂👍

Like the fact that in Death Note, Light Yagami's name is Yagami Tsuki (夜神 月: Night God Moon) and fans had called him "Tsuki" for quite a time until the creator proceeded to explain how it's supposed to be pronounced in that scene with Naomi Misora and how Tsuki is actually Raito (ライト) which is derived from English's "Light" to represent the kanji for Moon (月). It is very confusing but I accept it wholly because I love Yagami Light too much to complain. Even though by logic, his name should have been Yagami Hikari (夜神 光) Hikari, the kanji for light. Light has kira-kira name while being Kira.

@haleywilson520

Жыл бұрын

I watched a few episodes of that and literally just assumed his name was some kind of anime wackiness. it's funny to think that's kinda how it works in real life sometimes, and that that's a thing in Japan

@Marewig

Жыл бұрын

I had the same wtf sensation when I saw the kanji! "But, but, that's not even the kanji for _Light!_"

@justaway4271

Жыл бұрын

Now that you mentioned it, in one of the japanese Death Note live action movies (the one that took place after Light's death), Light had a son named "Hikari Yagami", so that means both father and son are named "Light" lmfao. 😂

As a Filipino , yep. Princess is quite a common name here. When I heard the name Princess Candy, I actually personally didn't find it that weird. Filipino naming is very out there. I know someone literally named "Near Blessing" and it didn't feel like a weird name upon hearing it.

@Skylah

Жыл бұрын

(note: "Near Blessing" is read as how you would read "Near Blessing")

@corndogonasticc

10 ай бұрын

Oh my god, that reminds me back in the news of that one girl who is named "sincerely yours 98" or how this dude is literally named "drink water rivera" haha.

@r3ll282

10 ай бұрын

One of my senior in highschool is named "ABCD" and its pronounced ab-see-dee and i was like how in the fk is this allowed

@corndogonasticc

10 ай бұрын

@@r3ll282 gotta love classic filipino names that looks not only questionable, but has the most horrendous prounouciation they made on spot.

As a Filipino, yeaaaaah Princess is legit. I have relatives named Boy, Girlie, had classmates named Queensley, Emerald, Unika (like Unique-ah)... I remember a news article of a family that named their son "A" because they couldn't settle between several names that started with A. He said though he loved it cause it represented to him limitless potential.

in some countries it is already forbidden to give your child a silly or bad name. there was this one instance of a Belgian couple who wanted to name their daughter "Bloem", meaning flower in dutch. it is a somewhat common name. However, since their last name was "Pot" meaning.. pot, it was not allowed since her names would spell flowerpot together. these rules have been there for a long time in some countries, and they were more rigid, where some names would not be allowed, simply because they were not recognized as names.

My grandmother's name was Maria. She was half-Hungarian and half-Italian. Maria was a popular name in Europe.

@gilb_4

Жыл бұрын

Common as f*** here in Mexico

@rauntche

Жыл бұрын

Is* As it should be.

@rurihime4965

Жыл бұрын

It's really common in Brazil

@soyjoyy

3 ай бұрын

One of the most common names in all Slavic countries