# oddly-named pattern

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506 "2019-12-28T09:26:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506/1 "2019-12-28T09:26:48Z")

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I’m looking to replace a certain bit if luggage that is just fine except the zipper broke. So I googled for “totes” luggage “F603” and [this is returned](https://imall.com/product/HaoYun-Water-proof-Totes-Travel-Bags-I-want-to-eat-your-pancreas-Pattern-Luggage-Tote-Mens-Outdoor-Sports/aliexpress.com/4000180027679/144-23824840/en) - a bag with the **I WANT TO EAT YOUR PANCREAS** pattern. Other luggage features that same pattern. Was the Chinese-English translator having fun?

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506/2 "2019-12-28T10:17:15Z")

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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is a Japanese novel/manga/anime. [A romantic one, despite the title.](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/05/films/film-reviews/want-eat-pancreas-eye-catching-title-doesnt-make-top-sentimentality/)

The title is a reference to a superstition about sympathetic magic and the disease that one of the MCs suffers.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506/3 "2019-12-28T11:13:38Z")

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Manga and Anime titles don’t make a lick of sense. None of them. They also give their lead heroic characters dull names like Leonard and Agatha.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-named-pattern/845506/4 "2019-12-28T20:59:45Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is a Japanese novel/manga/anime. [A romantic one, despite the title.](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/05/films/film-reviews/want-eat-pancreas-eye-catching-title-doesnt-make-top-sentimentality/)
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> The title is a reference to a superstition about sympathetic magic and the disease that one of the MCs suffers.

Thank you! But I’m not sure I want to carry the luggage, especially with a translation for TSA checkers to wonder about.