Ponyo

[marwel7]

My daughter likes anime and we just looked up the word "ponyo" as there is a film of this title.We found that in Japan the word means chubby or stout but without the negative connotations we have for those words in England.Can anyone tell me the connotations these words hold in Japan?

[boxtops]

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[boxtops]

Kanji seems to mean Plump in Japanese...

[marwel7]

I know,we thought that putting it in fim and society and culture would open it up to a wider demographic.

[jno]

I can't answer this directly, but different words have different connotations even in English. Fat, obese, fuller figure, bucket of lard, stout... So it might for instance imply something like "cuddly".

[jno]

oh, here we are:

Ponyo's name is an onomatopoeia, based on Miyazaki's idea of what a "soft, squishy softness" sounds like when touched

from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo_on_the_Cliff_by_the_Sea