“My wife found out I named our daughter after a porn game”

1 – 2009/08/05 11:42:07.29 ID:Gv0Doadv0
I came home from work yesterday to find a porn-game box I had hidden placed on top of the keyboard.

Kana: Little Sister

I tried to talk my way out of it at first, but my wife’s decided that I got the name from this game, and it’s pretty much the truth anyway, so I couldn’t. I tried to emphasize how nice a girl Kana is, but that didn’t work either. I’ve got both my and the wife’s parents coming to a family conference after I get home today.

20 – 2009/08/05 11:45:45.93 ID:dNaLV1HeO
Uh, Kana dies, doesn’t she?
That’s creepy, so at least make it Saya or something

29 – 2009/08/05 11:46:58.86 ID:Gv0Doadv0
Once I found out she was gonna be a girl, I had no choice in my mind but Kana.

36 – 2009/08/05 11:49:16.57 ID:uadBUOR80
You know they’re gonna have her write about where her name came from sometime or other during elementary school. Are you gonna tell her the truth then?

48 – 2009/08/05 11:51:41.54 ID:Gv0Doadv0
I’ll tell her that it came from Canaan because I wanted peace in the Middle East.

39 – 2009/08/05 11:50:16.73 ID:Cq6BhfVd0
There’s been a name I’ve had in my mind for a daughter for ages now. Can you guess what it is?

It’s Haruhi.

I couldn’t do it in the end, though. I’m jealous of >>1′s bravery.

63 – 2009/08/05 11:55:12.99 ID:Gv0Doadv0
There was another name I was torn between besides Kana:
Haruna （椿）
I’m a fan of Tenchi Muyo, but I gave up on it because people don’t know how to read that character at a glance and I thought that’d be tough on her.

116 – 2009/08/05 12:07:52.88 ID:4UkQCQLw0
That sounds like hell on earth…worse than being caught beating it as a kid…

155 – 2009/08/05 12:18:05.06 ID:Gv0Doadv0
If worse comes to worst and they make me play it, then maybe they’ll all be moved by the story enough that they’ll thank me for it?

258 – 2009/08/05 12:40:59.58 ID:Gv0Doadv0
I told her that there was a really wonderful child named Kana in this book I read long ago so I wanted to give our child that name. She was OK with it. We had decided that she’d name the kid if it was a boy and I would do it if she was a girl.

281 – 2009/08/05 12:46:32.87 ID:T7U0cMCX0
A lot of people in their 20s and 30s right now were named after actors and pro athletes and stuff. That was what people focused on in entertainment back then, so I don’t think it’s that weird to name your kid after anime or game characters.

293 – 2009/08/05 12:49:15.17 ID:15sGBTvE0
>>281
But you wouldn’t name her after a porn actress, would you?

397 – 2009/08/05 13:20:28.85 ID:15sGBTvE0
Tell her it wasn’t from a porn game. Stick to your guns, even if you’ve already admitted it once. If that doesn’t work, tell her that okay, part of it was that, but there’s another meaning to it and that’s the real reason.

Saying “there was a game with the same name as our daughter so I figured I’d try it” is still better than the worst-case scenario here.

406 – 2009/08/05 13:22:46.09 ID:Gv0Doadv0
>>397
Oh, that’s good!!
I’ll go see if there’s a girl with the same name in some old, prestigious novel or something!

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Sadly, >>1 disappeared without reporting in on the family conference. Presumably he’ll be without computer access for a while…