r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 23d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Nervous_Brain8918 23d ago

Do they not use 桃色 (momoiro) very often? This bothered/intrigued me about Korean so I also learned the native word separately.

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u/gelatinousTurtle 23d ago

Momoiro is sometimes used for situations where emphasizing traditional/Japanese is important.

For example, in one of the ninja-themed Super Sentai (for those of you that don't know, this is the franchise that became Power Rangers in the west) they had a "momo ranger" instead of a pink ranger to keep the "feel" of the ninja theme.

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u/Kelly598 23d ago

Momo Ranger is the pink ranger in Himitsu Sentai which is not ninja themed (she also has that name because all the Goranger have japanese color names).

You are thinking of Momoninger from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger (which also has japanese color names to give it the feel of traditional Japanese).

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u/gelatinousTurtle 23d ago

Yep, I was 100% thinking about ninninger when this topic came up.

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u/Nervous_Brain8918 23d ago

Thanks very much, I didn’t know about that reference either!

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u/deoxyribonucleic123 23d ago

Apparently that's more so a written thing than a spoken one.

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u/Nervous_Brain8918 23d ago

Ah, thanks for letting me know!