@aescling i genuinely have no idea it's just tradition
@monorail might be something about the date in japanese sounding vaguely like japanese fur glaceon—the reason japanese fans called november 21 eevee day
@aescling @monorail if that's the case, with kunyomi...
Gureishia...
Gu [9] re [0] i [1] would make sense... but then the shi a doesn't. Shi literally means 4, while there's no kunyomi for just a.
I guess that's probably fine but it still feels weird to me. But I think there's a lot of weird Pokémon kunyomi.
@aescling @monorail I just assume cuz she said so