Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to aww@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoDawwwwreddthat.comimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1531arrow-down10
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minus-squareEq0@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·10 days agoI didn’t know that Pikachu was a pika… I thought it was the only starter whose name was really random! My life has been a lie
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·10 days agoYeah, why did I always hear him referred to as an “electric mouse”?
minus-squareSoulg@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 days agoPika is also the Japanese onomatopoeia for spark
minus-squaretroybot [he/him]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·10 days agoPikas don’t have tails so that doesn’t really fit for an origin of Pikachu’s design. I think the name is a coincidence.
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-210 days agoThen let me blow your mind by telling you that “chu” is an old-timey Chinese word for “tail”, which is a fact I completely made up just now but wouldn’t that be cool!
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoThe tail just shows what element it is. That probably just added it cuz it’s cute
I didn’t know that Pikachu was a pika… I thought it was the only starter whose name was really random! My life has been a lie
Yeah, why did I always hear him referred to as an “electric mouse”?
Pika is also the Japanese onomatopoeia for spark
Pikas don’t have tails so that doesn’t really fit for an origin of Pikachu’s design. I think the name is a coincidence.
Then let me blow your mind by telling you that “chu” is an old-timey Chinese word for “tail”, which is a fact I completely made up just now but wouldn’t that be cool!
The tail just shows what element it is. That probably just added it cuz it’s cute