#piroro

Let's start with the ones that stick to kind of a formula,

DORARA[ドララ] from the DORA in the Japanization of Dragon(doragon) with the last syllable doubled to mirror the phonetics of Piroro.

URARA[ウララ] I want to assume this was a corruption of Wolf(URUFU) kinda mashed into the format of PIRORO, but I'm not totally sure? You'd think if that was the intent thought they might have landed on URURU instead? But it feels like it's meant to follow the same structure as Dorara.

PURURU[プルル] from the sound purupuru[ぷるぷる] for jigglingly, like the jiggle of the jelly-ish quality of mochi

KABURO[カブロ] "Kabuto"+"Piroro" where the kabuto-mushi[甲虫]: lit."(samura)armor bug" is the Japanese name for the rhinoceros beetle.

ZEBRO[ゼブロ]: "Zebra"+"Piroro"

DEATH PIERROT[デスピエロ] ironically they went out of their way to translate this in English to "DeathClown"

SILVER PIRORO[シルバーピロロ]

GOLD PIRORO[ゴールドピロロ]

SWEET PIRORO[スウィートピロロ] So weirdly I can't find any screenshots of this one... I think that's it? But it's only in that one really bad photo of a tv screen. It appears to only have been present in MF5 in Japan and not in MREvo.

NIGHT-FLIGHT[ナイトフライト] Same as with Sweet... I can't tell without an image what it's supposed to be, so it could also be NIGHT-FRIGHT for all i know...

FLOW(ER)[フラワ] it's technically just used as the English loan word "flower" but it's clearly phonetically FU-RA-U. Meaybe it was original the French "Fleur"? but if you google it plenty of Japanese advertising assets will use it romanized as "Flower"

SALOME[サロメ] kind of an obtuse reference to the biblical salome and presumably her Dance of the Seven Veils and John the Baptist's decapitation to explain the dancing/performing aspect of the clown and the scythe blades motif of the Zan subtype.

HAWK LORE[ホークロア] I mean, it's a Raiden subtype, so it's definitely "Hawk-something", but I can't tell if that RO-A bit is supposed to be "lore" or "roar" or something else...

BRIE[ブリー] like the cheese??? That can't be right... but that's the most immediate return that katakana gives. It's a subtype Falco, one of very ew, as it was a monster introduced only in the late DS games. I don't get what it could be

CHEYENNE[シャイア] like the native american tribe of the great plains. Although the iconic war bonnet in this design does originate in the great plains region, I don't acutally know if the Cheyenne used ones like this, so it's possibly a pretty poor taste appropriation. Although that ship has long since sailed, as the misuse of the war bonnet image has been going on for literally all of American history.

But I guess the real fun part of the Piroro family isn't even the main-type Piroros... I didn't really intend to break format here but at least for this one, I should probably go over the sub-types, right? Specifically all the originals introduced in MREvo are all Commedia dell'arte roles:

COLOMBINA[コロンビナ] main-type Pixie

PEDROLINO[ペドリーノ] main-type Jell

PUCINELLA[プルチネラ] main-type Pancho

CAPITANO[カピターノ] main-type Garu

ARLECCHINO[アルルカーノ] main-type Ripper

But then these two random hybrids with the Abyss and Falco breeds introduced in the DS games ditch the whole theme entirely for some reason. Guess someone didn't get the memo...

KARMA[カルマ]

PIROCO[ピロコ] just Piroro + Falco