#upashi

From the LH Database: http://lhrpg.com/lhz/i?id=1283

To start of with a translation note, the Japanese entry title is “デミデミのヨメヨメ事件”. Yome (ヨメ) is the same sound as the word for wife or bride (嫁). As explained in this Japan Times article, the term holds the connotation that the woman will do all the cooking, cleaning, raising the kids, caring for the parents, etc. while the man spends his life at work and has affairs.

(While the author of this article says that the West has a different view on marital relationships, it hasn’t been that long since the general view has shifted from what she described. And in some places, it probably hasn’t changed at all.)

DemiDemi is the guild master of Brigandia, Demiqas, and the YomeYome is Upashi.

Originally, Upashi was just a character with a couple of lines and had no name. She was given a sketch for Demiqas’ character expressions in the making of the anime, and she ended up getting more lines of dialogue with him. Her character design ended up as an unexpectedly beautiful woman with Mamiko Noto’s particularly refined, dignified voice; and in one fell sweep, Demiqas became seen as a total winner. Mamare and the viewers are probably cursing him now.

The YomeYome is cute, but DemiDemi still won’t yield.

もげろ！ (Mogero!)

(Explanation of that last part under the cut.)

Log Horizon Fun Fact #227:

Her name, Upashi, means "snow" in Ainu.