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People who don’t understand Japanese are missing a lot of Anya’s speech quirks. The first and most obvious one is Anya calling her parents Chichi and Haha. Chichi (父) means “father,” but it’s used to refer to *one’s own father when speaking to someone else*. When addressing your father directly, you would use Otōsan (お父さん), Otōchan (お父ちゃん), or, for a small child like Anya, Papa (パパ). Haha (母) works the same way for “mother.” It’s not used to address your own mother directly. A small child would normally say Mama (ママ). So Anya calling her parents Chichi and Haha already sounds stiff, impersonal, and unnatural, overall, very weird. If I were localizing it, I would probably have her call them “Father” and “Mother” even when speaking directly to them, just to preserve how off she sounds. Anya has a very peculiar choice of words overall. Episode 1: When the mailman delivers a letter and asks her to give it to her father or mother, she replies: ははそんざいしない Which literally means, “A mother does not exist.” This is an extremely stiff, abstract way of phrasing. The localization went with: Dub: “There’s no mama.” Sub: “A mama doesn’t exist.” Both lost how weird the original sounds. Episode 3: When Yor moves in, Anya says: Dub: “I’m so happy that I finally have a mother!” Sub: “I’m so happy to have a mama now!” Original line: アーニャ はは 生まれる めでたい Here Anya refers to herself in the third person (normal for very small children, but less common at her age), uses 生まれる (to be born), and めでたい, which means “auspicious” or “something celebratory", or "something to be congratulated about". That’s... A very uncommon word for a child. 🤔 Put together, it’s something like: “Anya is very celebratory that a mama has been born!”, like if she is thinking that people should congratulate her for now have a mother. 🤔 Grammatically, awkward, semantically, strange. 🤷‍♂️ Another example is when she tries to speak politely and mixes forms incorrectly, like saying 大丈夫ます (daijōbu-masu), combining a casual word with the polite verb ending ます, creating a word that doesn’t actually exist. 😅 My theory is that Anya didn't *acquire* her current language naturally as a young child, but rather *learned* it later through immersion. 🤔 This would explain why she has gaps in basic grammar (like particles) while knowing some "sophisticated" (for her age) vocabulary, she picked up advanced words by hearing and reading minds. 🤷‍♂️ This also would explain why her grades are low *except* for Classic Language, probably, her natural first language.

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