• @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        131 month ago

        A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

        • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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          41 month ago

          an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

          I guess they were referencing a toadstool, like Peach’s original US name? His name in Japanese actually makes sense: Kinopio, a play on the Japanese word for mushroom, “kinoko.”

    • @PolarKraken@programming.dev
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      41 month ago

      'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down

    • OpenStars
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      21 month ago

      As well as, highly ironically, sometimes unnecessary (if you know you know:-P)