

In Episode 2 of the anime _Yuyushiki_ , Nonohara Yuzuko drew something in
response to Hinata Yukari's drawing of a strange penguin-like creature, and
wrote down "Sunagimo Umataro" (砂肝うま太郎) on the same page. After some search on
the Internet, I now know that "Sunagimo" means "gizzard", which is a digestive
organ in chickens and ducks that may be made into food, and "uma" is just a
way of saying "delicious". It seems to me that "Sunagimo Umataro" is a name
that Yuzuko came up for the creature in the drawing, but I am still not smart
enough to connect all the dots and make a meaning out of this. Specifically, I
am having trouble figuring out

  1. What exactly are those items that appear in Yuzuko's drawing?

  2. How is the drawing supposed to be connected to the name "Sunagimo Umataro"?

I apologize if this is question has an obvious answer. (Maybe _Yuyushiki_ is
just too difficult for me!)

[![Sunagimo Umataro \(Yuyushiki episode 2
screenshot\)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eaYXP.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eaYXP.jpg)


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What is the meaning and significance of the word "Sunagimo Umataro" (砂肝うま太郎) in Yuyushiki?


The 'items' in the drawing seem to be part of a close-up view of the strange
penguin-looking thing to the right (namely the eyes and the beak).

As for its name, it was probably made up. As you noted, 砂肝{すなぎも} means
"gizzard," which is an organ common to most birds (note the drawings bird-like
appearance). 太郎{たろう} is a common male name suffix, and [according to a search
on
jisho.org](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%86%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86%20%23names),
there are at least two names (both of whose first _kanji_ corresponding to
「うま」( _uma_ ) mean "horse." Leaving it in _kana_ may also be, as you noted, a
play on 「うまい」( _umai_ ).

In conclusion, the weird name was most likely crafted to reflect the decidedly
weird semblance of the creature in the drawing.

Also of note, the speech bubble translates to something like "don't be so
unreasonable," and the text to the left of the image translates to "[the]
truth is SCARY."


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