Aqua notices that overseas viewers call her "Baqua" (Baka Aqua) [ Hololive/Eng sub ]

I know that the Japanese language is rife with pun opportunity (oppuntunity?) given the whole thing with the characters, pronunciations, etc.
But are there also puns like portmanteaus, or spoonerisms, and the like?

she's actually a pretty big brain gamer tho…

Is it me or ever since she changed outfit she started to get smarter

prob the anime "Konosuba" also has dome influence in this

So –

I'm not Japanese but I've been here ~4 years & I don't think I'd ever call someone a 'baka' unless they were a really close friend & it was very obviously a joke since it can be offensive (and I'm in the Kansai region where you definitely don't want to call someone that). In the late 90s/early 2000s, in older parts of Tokyo/Nagoya it was mixed in with the dialect where "'Good morning bakayaro" (in English I'd compare it to something like "What's up motherfucker!" or along those lines) wasn't uncommon & even casual greetings. Now, if you said the same thing to someone in Osaka or Kyoto they'd likely be offended and make a face at you. Instead, they'd use "Aho" instead in the place of 'baka'. Japan is so wide! Regions matter quite a lot. I'd guess some Japanese fans find it offensive, while some don't based on the above. It's definitely not as casual as manga, anime, games, and movies make it out to be. But, at the same time I know most of the people saying it are doing it completely harmlessly & jokingly not even thinking about the culture, using it as cute nickname (which I think is completely fine, btw. unless she says otherwise). I wouldn't say it's as bad as mixing someone's name with 'retard' to form a nickname, but it could be interpreted as something similar to that.

Sorry, I rambled.

Ittai…

Other: It's rude to call people stupid(baka)
Me who think baka aqua (Baqua) sound cute
Me: Seriously!?

Only villains do it. Proper viewers call her Onion.

That is just adorable… I wanna pat her head

0:29 I'm almost positive that the clip she noticed this from was Haachama's cooking song.

バクア！？バクたんになるのか！？

It's not a lack of knowledge, it's a lack of processing power

I feel bad. Petition to call her POGqua for her mad skills or Bestqua.

The baqua joke doesn’t culturally translate, because unlike in the west, depreciative humor isn’t common in japan. In the US well-intentioned jabs and straight up mocking are normal and considered funny. Being rude to your friends in America is being friendly, but in Japan being rude is just being rude.

I hope she does not take it to heart and bashes herself about it.

man… I really hate it when people called her that

we love our baqua

took her so long to realize.
sasuga baqua 🙂 humu humu.

She may be a baqua
But she's our beloved baqua

I thought she knows that nickname for a long time. I guess she's not Baqua for nothing

I almost feel bad.

Baqua… Yet you beautiful xD

Sasuga Baqua

No, no. They're got a point

"Took you long enough "

"On a second thought, onion wasn't such a terrible nickname"
Baqua, probably

minatonion baqua

she's stupid…

In the cutest way possible

Crazy its been 2 month since this episode…. I really need minecraft aqua

Baqua

"Unforgivable! Are they saying that I don't have enough knowledge?"

I was really hoping something was gonna blow up in her face as a hysterical jinx.

She may be an airhead, but shes our airhead.

To be Fair…. JP niki said it first

The fact that it took her that long to realize baqua = baka aqua speaks a lot about why she's called that

she says this while she builds something I dont even know

aqua has minimalist brain design