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I've heard a lot of people jokingly spell "anime and manga" as "animus and
mangos". I don't really know what an animu is, but I know that a mango* is a
pretty delicious fruit:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tmImU.jpg)

While those do look delicious, I don't see much connection to manga. It's
probably just a silly misspelling that someone thought was amusing, and it
caught on the same as any other meme.

**When did this "misspelling" originate, and is it actually a misspelling or
is there some deeper reason behind why "manga" are sometimes spelled like
this?**

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*Technically, the correct plural for mango should be "mangoes" but I'm willing to chalk that up to bad spelling on the internet.


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When did people start calling "manga" as "mangos"?


It has nothing to do with the fruit. They are derogatory versions of their
associated words to make fun of the way they are mispronounced in English
(with the "a" vs "ah" sound). Unfortunately, I don't have any references.
[Lurkmoar](http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki//a/) has a page dedicated to the
anime/manga board on 4chan.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I think people started using the "animu" and "mango"
terms on /a/


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[Mango](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango) is a native fruit from the
Philippines and is called **Mangga** in their language, which also has the
same pronunciation of [Manga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga) (the
Japanese comic book). So I think Filipinos started to call Manga as _mangos_
(real plural spelling is _mangoes_ ), being it the plural of Mangga and it
started to be viral in memes.


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The joke is to make fun of Americans saying 'animes and mangas' seeing as
there are no pluralization for these words, other fans joke that they are
saying animus and mangos.

And this is what an
[animu](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animu)/[animus](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animus#Latin)
is:

> **Noun:** animus
>
>   1. The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
>   2. A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
>   3. (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or
> personality.
>


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