Thread:Squirrel Is Cute/@comment-6078077-20171120194908/@comment-6078077-20171213151543

Yes, Kagayaki means "to shine" in Japanese. While I don't like the name very much, I still wished they had taken a different one. There are so many ways to play with words, especially in Japanese. Like Yuuki (I used for Sky) usually mean either courage or (lists 100 other meanings) other things, but I used the "ki" for the Japanese word for yellow. It's still Yuuki but has the meaning I need it to have.

The change overall of the main characters took me several month. I started in September with four names, followed with Midorikusa => Minotori and last month I changed the last three (Rubi, Sapphie and Kiyomi's names) Oh and I also changed the given names last month. I'm especially glad I changed Loo's earth name. His actually name is Loo (Ro in Japanese) after all. So Rosuke makes a lot sense. It may not be 100% Japanese but it at least sounds like it x'D

The colors are still part of everyone's names. Akabayashi and Aoba are probably the most obvious. Minotori is my greatest play with the Japanese "midori" tho. Because Mino (meaning fruit) can be pronounced like "mi" and Tori (meaning bird) can be pronounced like "dori", so her name can literally be pronounced like the color x'D But else, everyone's got their color in their names. Tachibana means "orange" in Japanese and while "Amashiro" is written differently, "shiro" is still a reference to the color itself. Chris, Loo/Rosuke and Yumi are supporting characters, which is why they don't have colors in their names (anymore). The given names are randomly chosen for: Kiyomi, Rikka and Ririan. Ema, Sapphie, Ami are basically their nicknames (I usually called Ema "Emma" and Ami "Amy", there's not much difference xD) and Amber and Rubi hardly (if they even did) changed at all. (Tho Rubi is now written in kanjis)

I like the characters so far, but Saaya sounds a little boring. She sounds like a Minami 2.0 who already sounded like a Karen 2.0. I hope it turns out that Saaya is a nice but shy person, that would be new for the Franchise if you ask me. My favorite - so far - is Homare tho. I've wanted a figure skating Pretty Cure for ages and finally Toei gives me one. I can't ignore that fact. Plus she gives Kirara vibes (just a little more serious) and I like Kirara when watching GO! Princess, so I'm looking forward to see more of her. For some reason Nono Hana (which is a pun to "nonohana" which means wild flower xD) reminds me of Love. But that may be because Harry and Hug-lan remind me of Tarte and Chiffon. I've always been afraid of a Fresh 2.0, but looking at HUGtto I totally love everything they share with Fresh! (Also Harry feels like a Tarte x Coco mix xD) A romance. I mean... you aren't wrong... it does sound like one... PLEASE YES! As long as it's a good romance, I will defenitely watch it!

Talking about Fresh, the team has been added to Puzzulun and I totally love their cards! (I see them on tumblr rn, I don't own the game myself)