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"A "What's funny about" question" , posted Tue 18 Mar 07:21

For all you who know Japanese, language and/or culture: What's funny, wrong or whatever about the names "Ume" and "Take"?

In Crayon Shin Chan there are these 2 sisters named Ume and Take Matsuzaka, they both hate their names and there are all these comical scenes involving them somehow. Ume is a teacher in Shin Chan's kindergarten but her name doesn't appear until some time after the series start (supposedly she's been "hiding" it), she gets very angry when someone calls her by her name and she even lies about it in an episode (in what I've seen of the series so far).
And then I realized that the Twinrova, Koume and Kotake, have also those names with that 'ko-' before, that I believe it means "little", and they're comical, ridicule and evil characters, so I thought this might not be a coincidence.

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