Kawaii~Chan always bothered me as a kid because I was raised in Japan (ages 4-18) and every time she spoke or tossed a Japanese word in there or gave certain characters certain suffixes I was so

So very,,,,, adjective. Mostly confused. That’s the adjective.

SO I GOTTA TALK ABOUT THE LANGUAGE IMPLICATIONS OF HER DAUGHTER NEKOETTE

She named her daughter Nekoette: Transliterated to cat-ette. -ette usually being tacked onto names in English to be more feminine and dainty, so OK her name is dainty cat.

But then they use the -tan suffix which isn’t a real name suffix it’s BABY SPEAK for -chan and I figured, alright well it is her daughter, and mothers baby speak their literal babies all the time. But then Nekoette never outgrows the -tan suffix? It’s with her the whole time. Meaning even as a teen she’s being called (baby voice) dainty kitty. Essentially her name means

POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW

If Nana is Kawaii~Chan (可愛いちゃん : cute girl) then Nekoette is Kawaiisou (可愛いそう : poor thing)

Set her up for failure SO HARD. Transliterating her name gets you a mess, but localizing it it very easily localizes to Kitty. Which is such a cute name and also actually. A name.

Here’s the kanji for Nana’s name if anyone was curious: 那那 芦田

Not canon I had to write it out myself but that’s the most probable kanji for her. The kanji for Nana means beautiful, and the kanji for Ashida means rice farmer. Maybe her family in Tu’La were rice farmers??? Hidden lore?????? There’s no way her name was that thought out

Here’s that for Nekoette: 猫エト (猫エット？) 芦田

And for her rename, Kitty: キティ 芦田