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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.

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

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?

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" 😅

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.

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.

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

"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"

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 😅

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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 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..

The whiplash from Angel/Knight being banned and Pikachu allowed, immediately flipping into Angel/Knight being allowed and Pikachu being banned caught me off guard. Japan getting those wildcard mid-season patches irl.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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”

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

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.

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.

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

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) 💀

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

Reminds me of Ironman Pérez, who campaigned for presidency in some latam country a while ago

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

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.

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.

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 ! ^^

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

2:17 I love how it’s written "puu", which means "tree" in Finnish

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.

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

12:00 could've been worse. There was a mother in the philippines who went viral because she named her son "Covid Bryant" because he was born during the week that Kobe died.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Forbidding parents to put a name can be seen as bad and overstepping on the duties of the state, but i think names like "Devil", "Bad" or even "Ojisama" can carry problems to the person with that name and stopping parents that haven't thought it well enough i see it as a good thing, i'm sure the parents can think about more names that they will love and would not bring problems to their son.

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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)

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.

Fitting for this video to come out right around the time that the anime Oshi no Ko is becoming extremely popular, seeing as how Ai gave both her children, Aquamarine and Ruby, kirakira names 😂

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😂👍

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

I guess in the SEA we have a lot of weird name or at least in Thailand. The name “Pooh” and “Jedi” is actually somewhat common nickname and not sound weird at all here. I myself have the nickname “Xerox” which is pretty unique in Thailand and the I also received some of the same reaction Akaike-san have to face as well, but I don’t mind it much any more and actually love my nickname more as I grow older. Love the video and I also trying to learn how to read those kanji so the video is quite interesting! ❤

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.

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