| Just wanted to point out the name Housenka. In my language (czech) it means "caterpillar" and since there's a butterfly in promo materials we can say it was an intentional choice and not something random. So if you were wondering what does the name mean in Japanese (well, technically in Czech), now you have the answer. But I'm still curious how did they even come up with that. Why pick a Czech word for a name of your movie :D |
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Mareep-chan said:
Just wanted to point out the name Housenka.
In my language (czech) it means "caterpillar" and since there's a butterfly in promo materials we can say it was an intentional choice and not something random.
So if you were wondering what does the name mean in Japanese (well, technically in Czech), now you have the answer.
But I'm still curious how did they even come up with that. Why pick a Czech word for a name of your movie :D
Just wanted to point out the name Housenka.
In my language (czech) it means "caterpillar" and since there's a butterfly in promo materials we can say it was an intentional choice and not something random.
So if you were wondering what does the name mean in Japanese (well, technically in Czech), now you have the answer.
But I'm still curious how did they even come up with that. Why pick a Czech word for a name of your movie :D
Well actually, Housenka comes from the Japanese word ホウセンカ, which itself comes from the Chinese 鳳仙花. It’s the name of a flower, commonly known as balsam in English. Since there’s also a flower in the visual, it was probably intentional. But yeah, I thought it was interesting too, maybe there’s a double origin, idk.
| @JacobDubois2357 I didn't know that, thanks a lot for correcting me! Ofc I tried googling it before posting but maybe because Google prefers to show you results in your own language I wasn't able to confirm if "housenka" has any other meaning lol. Though it's funny how totally unrelated and so different languages can have the same word. I mean, slavic and Japanese/Chinese, really? For fun I tried googling the chinese name and in Czech it's called "Netýkavka" (literally means Touch-me-not, so yeah, makes sense, just never realized the literal meaning till now). Too bad, housenka is just a caterpillar :D But really a funny coincidence. |
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