Spy X Family's BIGGEST SECRET About Anya Forger REVEALED!

#shorts #yorforger #yor #spyxfamily #loidforger #anyaforger #anime #short
Any Forger is one of Spy x Family's most popular characters, but for as cute and loveable as she is, Anya actually has a cute little secret about her character that you might not be aware of that will make you look at the way Anya Forger speaks in the spy x family anime a lot differently now!
Provisional title: The True Reason Anya Speaks The Way She Does!

[@amandaandkayla8427]

anya also speaks in third person at times like for example "anya likes peanuts!"

[@KryptonianSaiyan]

Good point!

[@nond7060]

i can't watch spyxfamily so it is easier to put the message on this comment

[@thesmartone2735]

Actually every Japanese person speak in third person, that's how their language works, but the phrase "Anya like peanuts" is recorded in English but it's still in Japan so made it that way.

[@The_BlOb]

That's normal in Japanese? Most kids either use their name or their nickname to adress themselves

[@gelidgenteel]

theres a really interesting and kind of fucked theory that she does this to reassure herself she is still who she thinks she is. imagine hearing everyones thoughts, all the time, to the point you cannot differentiate between your own thoughts and someone elses. this is her way to combat this, by stating ANYA IS... ANYA WANTS... ANYA- she is making it clear, this is HER thought and not someone elses

[@nojukuramu]

Additional context: Japanese use Kanji so readers wont mistaken it for something else. Example japanese of Hair and Paper. Hair is 髪 Paper is 紙 Both are pronounced as かみ or ka-mi so mangaka use hiragana so readers gets confused and doesnt have to think childish word

[@en4833]

God is also かみ(pronounced kami) and written as 神 in kanji.

[@GreetMyMeat]

Sometimes I wonder why the Japanese have multiple different words pronounced the same way that mean entirely different things, and then I think “Well the English language does that to so I’m a hypocrite”

[@cinderfox5217]

That’s actually very helpful, I didn’t get what the guy in the video meant

[@en4833]

@@GreetMyMeat It's not pronounced exactly the same way. There're different inflections and the emphasis is on different parts of the word so each word is pronounced slightly different. And you can almost always tell what the other person means through context. Kanji is used to tell us the difference in writing.

[@DevoDude]

Ya air can also be kaminoke though

[@nicolasfranco6490]

It is also hinted that her real name is "Ania" but since she didn't know how to write her name, she learned to write it the way she was taught at the orphanage. That, her skill in "classical language" and the absence of clear records about her identity hint that Anya is not only a laboratory subject, but also an immigrant. Which explains why she usually has pronunciation problems.

[@TheObserverDMZ]

“English is so difficult to learn!” “Japanese has 3 different lettering systems”

[@neoncatEEEE]

Romanji

[@HoppingSnake290]

Japanese is hell

[@birdyghostly]

@@neoncatEEEE hai

[@brrrrrr]

Technically 4 if you include romaji

[@TheJjcczz]

One of which is just for words taken from other languages like English

[@azkarusydan6039]

She's 4/5 years old while the other kids is 6. That's why she is the way she is. And the author try to emphasize that with hiragana/katakana lettering that's easier to understand for kids instead of all three, because kanji is harder to learn even most japanese can found difficulty while reading a rarely used kanji.

[@someone4585]

Also the other kids were raised in a very different environment than Anya was

[@slick_rickgaming1102]

​@@someone4585I think a lot of kids were raised differently than Anya 😓

[@nowh_8808]

Bruh anya is smort for her age wth??

[@litlmine2791]

Yeah anya is 4/5 finally someone who knows

[@idrathernot_2]

It's always great when kids aren't expressed as tiny adults

[@dairoleon2682]

I imagine that telepathy also works as a speech disorder because not having to speak to communicate concepts reduces the priority on learning how to do it.

[@flowflower2816]

Also the way she speaks is so patchwork-y, she sometimes uses some oddly advanced words while mixing between speaking like a gangster or a child or an adult, like It just sounds like she imitates how the people around her speak in their thoughts without sticking to a particular way of speaking so it sounds odd and inconsistent

[@noneyabusiness8394]

@@flowflower2816that and I imagine her formal education was lacking as she was living in a very run down sketch orphanage so in addition to all of this she never had much of an opportunity to learn. I would imagine as the series goes on her speech will improve as she’s now getting a proper education

[@Makorze]

Probably some truth to that. As an example, when she reads Loids mind to do the crossword puzzle. Not only is she hearing words she has never head before, she also gains the knowledge of how to spell them from him as well.

[@zoraackerman1684]

She can't talk to others though? She can only hear their thoughts. Unless you mean she used telepathy to communicate when she was younger?

[@Makorze]

@@zoraackerman1684 it's a mix of things. The most obvious being she's 4 but treated by most as a 6 year old so that missing 2 years of brain development is mistaken for her being retarded. The other factor might be that Anya stopped talking out of habit since her telepathy likely made her say things that got her sent back to the orphanage 3 times before (and with Loid & Yor as her newest parents, she is extra determined to not make those mistakes again.)

[@KaiyaTsuki]

Yor in the background cutting that food like there’s no tomorrow

[@slick_rickgaming1102]

I still can't get over how she says "ooting" instead of "outing" 🥰

[@battosaikenshin439]

Ikr, it's the best

[@MellowMellancholly]

In the Japanese version, she says "おでけけ" ("odekeke") while the correct word for outing would be ”おでかけ" ("odekake") In both versions, she is absolutely adorable.

[@zoraackerman1684]

And because of that, I say it too. Then if I remember, I take a moment to remember how it's actually pronounced, and continue. 😂

[@omegadeadpool2947]

"Knowledge is a Swole Chihuahua" ~ Anya Forger

[@Kamirasu]

​@Zeniat Haroun at some point in the manga, talking to a person helping her study

[@iridescent28]

some translations say : 'no leash is power' as a pun(?) for knowledge is power

[@carbonatedgremlin]

@Zeniat Haroun She said it in chapter 26, but in episode 18 she said "no leash is power" instead

[@KKristof100]

It’s “chi-wa chikara”(knowledge is power, “scientia est potentia”) which Anya mishears as “Chihuahua chikara” but that pun is untranslatable.

[@brianaguilar5204]

Well said

[@cooblsoobl]

One of my favorite details that I havent seen people mention is how she always says "please" in places where she doesn't need to, because Loid told her to "always say pleass and thank you"

[@danielantony1882]

Loid more or less told her to be polite. "Please" isn't really a thing in Japanese. It instead has a lot of formality levels and politeness levels, including fictional ones for Anime. And those formality levels include the politeness, or requests, in the words' conjugations themselves.

[@zoraackerman1684]

​@@danielantony1882Yeah, she goes "Oyahoimasu!" It's so cute, but hard to translate. The pwease was actually a good choice.

[@danielantony1882]

@@zoraackerman1684 I'm not in a mental state to comment about accuracy right now. All I'll say is that it feels incomplete to me.

[@zoraackerman1684]

@@danielantony1882 Yeah, I get it.

[@HarmonyEdge]

One other thing that I find odd about her in the anime's japanese dub is the way she addresses her parents as Chi-chi(father) and Haha(mother). Normally when directly addressing either one the suffix -ue is added to the word(Chichi-ue, Haha-ue). Without the suffix, the word is usually a possesive subject instead (MY father, MY mother). Either she has yet to fully grasp the nuances of japanese grammar or is a sign that she is subconsciously reminding herself and proclaiming that they are HER parents...

[@Diaryofaninja]

U have absolutely no idea what ur saying why would u say this when udk the language

[@SaiyanGamer95]

I know this one Japanese KZbinr who explains Anya's use of "chichi" and "haha". /watch?v=fT68kQLzszo

[@InverseCh]

I thought the 上 suffix was an archaic honorific.

[@zoraackerman1684]

​@@InverseChMe too.

[@zoraackerman1684]

Also, y'all she's just a kid. One minute she be talking gangsta, then the next, she's all sophisticated. It's normal for children to mimic fun speech patterns like that. Why do you think people say they learn so much from TV? Keep a regualr 4 year old in front of a TV and make her watch a cowboy show, and I wouldn't be surprised if she started talking like them for fun.

[@aili_not_ally]

An example is when she calls Loid and Yor “chichi and haha”. These terms do mean “father and mother” but you use these terms when talking about them. When talking to them, you call them “Mama and Papa” or “Okasan and Otosan”

[@danielantony1882]

Here's some fun kanji for Mama and Papa. 媽媽 爸爸. They're mostly used in China but would work perfectly in Japanese.

[@badman3000]

There's also an implication that this is not her first. That she is not from this country. Cuz one-time Lloyd realize that she was writing a foreign language well.

[@the1downs696]

Honestly one of my favorite things about translation is how translators make work around for these types of things. It's just interesting to see how they approach differences in both spoken and written language

[@danielantony1882]

Well, unfortunately for you, there's no workarounds for Kana-only text.

[@net_spider]

In universe, she was also a test subject because of her mind reading abilities. Imagine being a young child with a mysterious ability. The only ones who know you even exist are scientists who test you on your power day in and day out, barely treating you like an actual person. Maybe they didn't care to actually teach you anything because they were more interested in you as a test subject and what your ability was capable of doing. Now, in Anya's case, this ability was telepathy. As far as we are aware, she's been able to do this for as long as she remembers. From a child's perspective, why actually learn anything when you can essentially steal info from the smart adults around you and regurgitate what they want to hear from you. Do you actually learn anything by doing this? Do you mentally develop like a normal child? Probably not... Heck, we see Anya constantly try to cheat by reading minds and her thought process is she doesn't actually have to learn because she can just do what she's always been doing. Now that she's part of a complicated family, she's learning that using her ability for everything isn't the end-all-be-all and she actually has to learn and think for herself from time to time... but old habits die hard it seems.

[@LongDeadArtist]

I mean, they were forcing her to study, not experiment.

[@bheowolfe]

MANGA SPOILERS (lite): We recently learned that Anya is actually quite talented in ancient languages. My follow-up theory is that her birth parents spoke that ancient language and since babies start learning linguistic patterns even before they are born, Anya was pre coded to speak the ancient language. Also, Anya originally spells her name as 'Ania' which I heard was an older spelling of the name less common in Russia (of course I might have misheard since Ania is the more common spelling in Poland)

[@jimidoodles]

With the age difference they say what she's accomplished is amazing too trying to keep up with the older kids in the school.

[@battlesheep2552]

Well she cheats a lot with her mind reading powers

[@gamingwitheagleofficial8477]

​@@battlesheep2552New Moon Makes it temporary impossible for her to use telepathy

[@crreamuu]

Anya speaks in third person because that’s how some people speak in Japanese. Mostly kids or people who are close to you talks like that. I used to speak in third person when I was younger too

[@pyrometheus4277]

I think a potential in cannon reason for why she speaks in the third person is her telepath abilities, they couldve affected her language development as she'd regularly be hearing people referring to her exclusively in the third person.

[@WOLF29855]

I just like - "Waku Waku"

[@KodenX]

Kinda reminds me of how the babies in Rugrats would often mispronounced words and replace them with similar sounding words. Like how Tommy in the Rugrats Movie says "Lizard" when he really meant to say "Wizard"

[@littleblueclovers]

Random Japanese here eager to add more info about the language: Warning: I meant for this to be short but I kept writing because I got excited to share. Read if you’re interested in learning Japanese though! In Japanese, it’s extremely easy to express certain things just by picking the right lettering system: English phrase: “My name is….” In Japanese: Normal way of writing: 私の名前は... Uses a mix of kanji and hiragana. As a language that doesn’t use spaces in between words, we usually rely on the combo of kanji and hiragama to see each "chunk" of words. Hiragana is mostly used for conjunction words (“the”, “and”, “is”, etc…). Kanji is also super helpful because Japanese has limited sounds. 46 hiragana, which sounds like a lot but each letter is a syllable and that really limits the range of word-sounds you can make. (Makes it crazy easy to sound out words though. No silent letters or difficult spelling) Now we'll take the same phrase and write it only in one lettering style. Hiragana only: わたしのなまえは... Because hiragana is the first lettering system taught, a hiragana-only sentence often implies that the speaker is young, mentally young, or even mentally impaired. (I read a story where a character was sedated/drugged and the character spoke only in hiragana for a while they were feeling “loopy”. It's really interesting what a writer can convey using these lettering styles) It’s also sometimes used if a character is extremely confused about a specific word. Because we use kanji for most words, to use only the basic lettering can imply that the meaning of the word is not registering to the person (in a bit of a child-like way) Katakana only: ワタシノナマエハ... Katakana is mostly used for foreign words. Japan has a lot of words imported from other countries. Fun fact: It’s a common misconception in Japan that most “foreign words” are English, but historically there are also a lot of Dutch words. With a sprinkling of other countries like Spain, Germany, France, and Russia. A funny thing will happen where Japanese people will go to America trying to say the “English” words and end up confusing everyone involved lol) Examples: リュックサック (ryukkusakku) Meaning: “backpack” from the German word “rucksack” ズボン (zubonn) Meaning: “pants” from French word “jupon” So names of foreigners are also written in katakana like “Jospeh” ジョセフ To write a whole sentence/speak exclusively in katakana implies that the speaker is foreign and speaking with a strong accent. You’ll also see it used for computers and aliens too. To exclusively write in katakana has a strong unnatural feeling, so you’ll rarely see it. It’s also used to emphasis, kinda like italics because it’s the least-used lettering system. (Also why it’s strange to read a paragraph written exclusively in katakana) Phew, sorry for the long post. I hope this was helpful to someone out there. I love sharing this kinda stuff. I find it fascinating. TLDR: Normal writing: kanji and hiragana Little kids: just hiragana Foreign words: katakana

[@KryptonianSaiyan]

This was fun to read! Thank you

[@zoraackerman1684]

What's TLDR Yeah, that's the onw thing I didn't get here. 😂 Honestly, you covered it so well, great explanation. I totally get the whole overwriting thing. 😂

[@sarahdeecee]

Something that’s really difficult to convey is English is that Anya often uses the wrong word - usually the meaning is technically correct but the context is very wrong. Example: Normal: ただいま (I’m home) Anya: アーニャ帰還した (Anya has returned) The word Anya uses is used when someone returns to their homeland from abroad or when a soldier comes home from war.

[@FrenchFrles]

She did good on her foreign languages test so I’m guessing the real reason in the story is because she speaks a different language

[@scP----001]

Bro any time a small anime girl goes near a white dog I get ptsd from F.M.A

[@salwanausheenbariah4300]

And the fact that Bond also looks just like the dog from FMA brotherhood doesn't help...

[@jennasink8743]

SAME…..

[@lupus3402]

don't remember me of that 😢

[@Legithiro]

“Have you ever wondered why Anya’s pronunciations are childish? It’s because her lines in the manga are written to be childish”

[@RACOONAFIED]

"have you ever wondered why a child is written childish? It's because she is a child"

[@zoraackerman1684]

Seriously. Glad I'm not the only one.😂😂😂

[@KryptonianSaiyan]

How many of you guys knew this about Anya Forger?

[@The_BlOb]

she also uses some words incorrectly. she refers to her parents as "chichi" and "haha" which are extremely formal terms mostly used by other people. an example would be, "omae no chichi ga omae wo yondeimasu" meaning "your father is calling for you" but you usually don't say stuff like "boku no chichi". this type of thing is difficult to translate on to English. but it's really funny to see Anya do this type of thing.

[@KKristof100]

@@The_BlOb They do say “boku-no chichi” when they talk about their father in a third person. “Omae” is an informal and often rude expression, in your example “anata” is more accurate

[@danielantony1882]

​@@The_BlObThat's a sentence which makes no sense. Its English equivalent wouod be "Hello there and good evening my bruv, could I mayhaps have a tea, my dudilly fam dudenson friend?

[@danielantony1882]

​@@KKristof100I think they're just not sure how registers work.

[@zoraackerman1684]

​@@danielantony1882Why? This was unnecessary. 😂😂😂

[@THELYNEYSIMP]

Anya: in the baning- ahem, in the, baninging. In in the baning-baninging Loid: it’s beginning Anya: in-in-in the- baning-banining

[@blazingzombiex1724]

I just figured since she’s in a super good school it would make sense that the kids in that school are smarter than average

[@BurntRollcake]

Yor cooking in the background: 😎🔪🔪🔪🔪🍖🍖🍖

[@azula4786]

I sometime found myself speaking like Anya in third person when talking to elders it's just more polite than saying "I/You"(translated) in my language since kau/Aku is considered a harsh words for certain parts of malaysia

[@thedefault8109]

For english people, saying "aku" when refering to yourself with someone older or of higher authority is like saying bro with your aunt.

[@zoraackerman1684]

Yeah, Japanese is like that.

[@ssoory6343]

The funniest and most adorable thing about Anya is she goes to solve big problems but realizes she doesn't know how to solve them at the last moment 😆😆😆

[@Recruiterxgame]

Yor with the knife tho💀

[@zoraackerman1684]

You've never seen that? I look at it all the time. 😂

[@tokageki]

Another way of explaining this can be done through the story's lore. All of her Anya's classmates are upper class (societally) so they've all been taught proper diction and grammar and what not by their family, private tutors, and/or advanced schooling. Anya had none of these growing up. She learned how to talk the same way layman kids learned, so she talks like an average toddler instead of an aristocratic scion. (Wait, is 6 toddler age? I dunno, I don't have kids)

[@zoraackerman1684]

Also, she's 4 and they're 6.

[@reaper5242]

I always thought it was because all the other peoples thoughts made her fumble her words and she's young

[@SamuelCantu-mh6jg]

Yor assasinating the meat in the background 💀

[@gamingknight5205]

Another reason could be that she was experimented on as a kid to give her telepathic powers so due to that she probably didn't had any proper learning and speaking skills.

[@KimiYor]

aEStHtTic ANyA

[@Cinnabun9]

Bro yor is having beef with the meat in the background

[@zoraackerman1684]

You shoulda said having beef with the beef. Wasted opportunity!

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

Non-English speakers: "English is so difficult to learn!" Japanese: "...hold my sakè."

[@Iliveforpb]

one more thing is that this ー thingy is usualy only used in katakana, however the author uses that for hiragana as well creating that child-like dialougue

[@DrFouFou]

Yor fighting a whole ass steak at the beginning there

[@sabriyahfernando6124]

The fact that I’m learning all three lettering systems

[@AngelicMerci]

Honestly it never was a question I had to ask myself because my little sister is similar, she acts similar to anaya and is smaller and younger than the other kids her age as well as talks sorta talls funny (shes 7 but most people think shes 4)

[@Ghost_of_Zenin]

To do it simple kanji is the chinese words Katakana was invented years later to make it more easy And hiragana is the word that now everyone use , Now katakana is used for words from other countries like soccer(FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER), chocolate,ect Kanji is used to know the difference in the sentence ①帰る=kaeru ②買える=kaeru same pronunciation but different meanings first one is "I'm coming back home" the second one is "i can buy it"

[@stickynote-slumber]

Me, who's never seen Spy x Family in my entire life: *Interesting.*

[@localheaddealer1382]

Spy x Family is an interesting anime. It got a second season around November-December of 2022. So, if you're interested in watching it, you have two full seasons to watch now 🥸

[@MellowMellancholly]

Hiragana and katakana, the only two lettering systems Anya uses, are the easiest and first lettering systems Japanese people learn (usually). When someone only writes in these two lettering systems, it insinuates that the write means to write to children or is a child themself.

[@AeonKnigh432]

She's just our autistic queen and we love her.

[@stevenlisten]

We need season 3

[@stephendennis9353]

No she mispeaks because she's several years younger than they think she is. She lied when they adopted her.

[@peanutbutter131]

“Karakana” 😂

[@SleeplessFailure]

Also another reason is because that I Japanese your subject in a sentence goes first with your verb going last so a sentence like "I ate apple" in English would be "I apple ate" in Japanese

[@cynthialou1893]

*Yor annihilating stuff in the background*

[@fianafarrington6899]

The only time I have ever seen someone boil poultry is when they're doing it with rice to get their dog to eat.

[@zoraackerman1684]

Huh?

[@barnowl2655]

Context for the lettering system. Hiragana is for traditional Japanese words, Katakana is for words outside the Japanese language, and Kanji is just a combination of Hiragana and/or Katakana characters.

[@goldenhourss]

nope, kanji are CHINESE characters, which have now a japanese pronunciation while the meaning is mostly the same. they kept the traditional characters while china has simplified ones.

[@spyro2002]

Basically in Japanese it's kind of trope that text written exclusively in hiragana looks childish, because little kids will learn hiragana first which is closer to a "regular" language and probably don't have the experience to know a large pool of common Kanji to use.

[@lucasscoz6090]

so if wasnt hard enough to learn, there is 3 of them.

[@constantinedaurum9943]

I just thought Anya had a spooch impepperment

[@camilaprince1630]

Guys look at yor ☠️😂

[@bluebird3670]

Anya is fluent in cursive

[@pitoue]

I hate clickbait youtubers. Anyone watching the anime or reading the manga knows Anya speaks childishly, its not a "BIG SECRET" in the slightest 🤦‍♂️

[@KryptonianSaiyan]

The reason why isn’t something people who only watch the anime don’t know…

[@OmegaX5000]

I figured Anya just never went to school prior to Loid adopting her (partly due to her being adopted and returned so often), so she never properly learned how to talk.

[@sodapopxx3]

first clip i was just staring at yor😨

[@J1nnth]

"Fank you" Anya knows what she did there

[@unskillfullymasterful]

im glad wit studio gets to remake onepiece , it will look gorgeous in this style

[@moopymuffin1099]

I love how your png is Rurouni kenshin such and underrated manga/ anime

[@zoraackerman1684]

What's it like? And what's he English name?

[@chocobarAR]

Honestly I never questioned her verbal skills. I more question the horn hair piece things

[@SomeGuy-gc8zs]

To finish this, hiragana is the first form of writing children learn, because it's simple, while kanji are complex to the point that even a lot of Japanese people have trouble with them sometimes. But once you learn kanji, they can make interpretation easier because Japanese has a lot of words that would be homonyms in hiragana but would be written down totally differently in kanji.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

🇺🇸: We speak one language. 🇨🇳: We speak two. 🇮🇳: Most of us have to know several. 🇯🇵: That’s cute. 😂 😭 🤣

[@FreedomIII]

​​@@thedukeofchutney468Incidentally, because Japan uses Kanji, we tend to be able to look at Chinese writing and at least grasp the general idea of what's trying to be conveyed 😊

[@thedukeofchutney468]

@FreedomIII Damn! Out of curiosity why keep doing the multiple languages thing? Maybe it’s just because I’m American with the benefit of speaking the worlds lingua Franca but surely having Kanji, Katakana etc. is rather inconvenient.

[@FreedomIII]

@@thedukeofchutney468 Oh, for that answer, look at Japanese written in only hiragana. Just to give you a sense of what it's like, itsbasicallyliketryingtoreadenglishsansspacesandpunctuationanditsimposdibletotellwhereinthehellsanthingstartsorends. Possibly, yes, but it's much easier to just have important words with in kanji to make it readable at a glance.

[@spyro2002]

​@@FreedomIIIinteresting that you wrote english without spaces as the example cause I think in a lot of older videogames that didn't have detailed enough graphics for eligible kanji they'd write without them but use spaces similarly to other languages and that would help make it more readable

[@only_1_emperor]

Because of Anya listens people 2 to 3 times more than normal kids. So that's why

[@exoticpotato9001]

Learning Kanji is a nightmare speaking of experience

[@BronzeAgeMan1350]

Anya is CC with Pink Hair.

[@grimshock6983]

I wouldn’t say that secret is adorable

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

I'm still curious if this is also because she knows some ancient language or something that showed up in that one class that she was bizarrely good at for some yet to be explained reason

[@alastor--radiodemon7556]

Ive never warched the anime and just now read the first manga. She often misspells words as in the speech bubbles words are sometimes written how they are pronounced instead of spelled like idk... Wensday instead of Wednesday

[@SlyviaElanor]

Him: "we can do this two ways" and list out the options. Me after hearing option 1: definitely one! (Says says immediately) Me after hearing option 2: 😅 (still option one)

[@joygaiya3891]

Did anyone notice yor at the background in the beginning?

[@aquayt6503]

Bruh broke is spine💀

[@rougeakane]

Our girl just loves going on ootings with her new ootfits

[@frostblitzxdkartoffelliebh6081]

Anya also speaks third person, but that’s because it’s quite common for Japanese children to do that. They usually speak in third person until 2/3 grade

[@KryptonianSaiyan]

Good point

[@cliffcorson4000]

Let's not talk about Yor in the background turbo cubing the food and smacking it into the pan

[@maglen69]

4 lettering systems: Romanji as well.

[@sully47]

You'd think she'd be using her powers to learn yet she still remains uneducated

[@SD-Teru]

Hiragana: あいうえお Katakana: アイウエオ Kanji: River= 川 Trees=木 Sky=空 Hiragana and katakana is the japanese version of the alphabet while Kanji is those chinese words where its not a letter but a whole word and theres like 2000 of them that you have to learn 😢 Im half japanese but i cant even go past 5th grade kanji

[@raien6092]

Hiragana usually potraying more feminim and childish vibe. So I always imagine Anya speaking more childish and cutesy than other characters

[@ElusiveMackerel]

I thought you were gonna give a definitive in-universe reason

[@soonersciencenerd383]

also, anya is "hello" in korean!

[@riceboy2104]

“Why does anya speak this way?” Proceeds to explain japanese

[@zeroizanagi]

Me just watching your tear up that steak in the first 3 seconds of the clip

[@QUEEN-loves-you-all]

Yas I have been looking everywhere for these thank you for making them

[@happymimiku]

Kinda like Depending on where a person is from they will write Different words where the others would for Example Howdy, Aloha and Hi They all mean the same thing.

[@Seyifi_Dev]

She is an East german(ostania in SxF,East germany irl)

[@Sumi63787]

Bruh I thought this was going to be about the actual lore reason which is that it's implied the common language people use is not her native tongue

[@ArchangelSef]

Kanji, Katakana, and hiragana. Sound love like a 3 step move

[@HolicChan]

Technically speaking they have 4 lettering systems youre missing jukugo

[@firewolf096]

Never watch it but she looks adorable Don’t touch the child

[@ChibiChidorii]

There's another reason she always makes mistakes. You have to consider she can read minds, so she's constantly hearing grown up words that she kiiinda understands but. not really, so unlike most kids that are talked to with a more simple vocabulary, she simultaneously hears both a childish and a grown up speech all the time. She tries to speak more adult like but she fails at it since she probably forgets the grown up words or doesn't completely grasp how to use them

[@Xoxo-t4k]

maNgAKa✨

[@tommyyaeger6162]

Basically saying, she has a speech impediment

[@Onetwothree-q6q]

True example of hiragana こんにちは Katakana コン二チワ Kanji (there's no hello in kanji) 日本語

[@SomeoneCalledKoi2]

Meanwhile Yor destroying meat.

[@zoraackerman1684]

That was meat.

[@SomeoneCalledKoi2]

​@@zoraackerman1684THX, that's better now.