hunterxhell:

mishmashmike:

hunterxhell:

I was browsing a Japanese HXH forum the other day and someone pointed out something REALLY interesting about the Zolydyck children’s names (besides the fact that their naming convention is just a game of shiritori, lol.)

If you give the names a reading in kanji, the meanings are very telling:

• illumi / いるみ / 居る
  to exist (as a person)
  
• milluki / みるき / 見る
  to watch, to look at it (ie “watching tv”, “looking at a computer screen”)
  
• killua / きるあ / 斬る
  to kill
  
• alluka / あるか / 有る
  to exist (as an object)
  
• kalluto / かると / 刈る
  to cut, to clip, to shear

I’m… getting really emotional about Alluka’s name…….. and I’m so mad that it’s in direct contrast with Illumi’s…. that piece of shit.

Anyway I just found this very interesting and wanted to share it with everyone so you can be upset with me too!!

Also the last part of the name starts the next sibling’s name.

You are correct! This is what I referred to as a “shiritori naming convention” in my original post

– shiritori is a Japanese game where words are connected by the last syllable of the previous word.

From this we can we can be certain that, if Kikyo and Silva were to have another child all of a sudden, their name would start with “Tollu” (とる, meaning “to take”).

I’ve seen a lot of people laugh at how silly a naming convention this is, but actually, it’s very brillaint on Togashi’s part. In the Japanese fandom, it was clear from Kalluto’s introduction back in 1999 that there MUST be another sibling in the Zoldyck family and their name MUST be “Alluka”. (There was a lot of speculation on who this “Alluka” is and why we hadn’t met them yet.) I’ve also seen some people say that Alluka’s introduction was very sudden and plot-convenient, but it’s clear that her existence was planned for at least a decade in advance. Honestly, the whole thing is very clever.

EDIT: Further clarification over here.