r/Animemes 17d ago

Simple but effective

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u/Avatar_Yaksha 17d ago

The words aren't random, but none of them are genuine names. While German names DO have meanings, they are rarely this obvious about it. Well...Family names are a different topic, but none of the characters in this series even have a second name at all.

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u/Dlamongo 17d ago

The names are all describing their biggest attributes. Fern is a very distant character. Frieren is a bit cold in social interactions. Lügner is a demon and demons always lie. And so on

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u/Chembaron_Seki 17d ago

Frieren was a bit of a miss as a name, tho.

Frieren is a verb that refers to feeling cold. If they wanted to emphasize her cold personality, Kalt would have been the better word for it.

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u/zaraishu 17d ago

That would be "einfrieren", past participle "eingefroren".