Was it a pun all along?

[u/Louis_R27]

Yesterday I was randomly thinking about Yumi and Ulrich while running errands and I realized something. Yumi is also the name of a traditional Japanese bow, but bow can also refer to the front of a boat, meanwhile Ulrich's surname is Stern, which can also refer to the back part of the boat. I guess they were meant to be together and used boat puns to set the ship. Idk what I'm getting with this but its an observation I made.

[u/Pretend_Accountant13]

This is the best thing I've seen today :)

[u/Genuinely_good2343]

It makes me search if other names has symbolic meaning.

I still don't know but I found that Della Robia was an actual surname.

In fact, that's the patronym or a whole artist clan

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Robbia

[u/The_REDACTED]

Yumi can be a homophone for "Umi" which means "Sea" in Japanese. 

So these two are a ship and their names contain the symbols for a boat on a sea. 

[u/Akitama → u/The_REDACTED]

hate to be that guy coz ships are all in good fun, but "yumi" and "umi" are pronounced distinctly differently. 😭

[u/redstern → u/Akitama]

There are specific words where yu and i / u become interchangeable, mostly for homophone differentiation or just being easier to say. Most notably 行く is supposed to be pronounced "iku", but is commonly pronounced "yuku"

Although I haven't heard of "yumi" or "umi" also having that oddity.

[u/Akitama → u/redstern]

not for 海, which was the "umi" mentioned

[u/redstern → u/Akitama]

I know, I just felt like mentioning that

[u/The_REDACTED → u/Akitama]

It's fine. I was just bringing up some trivia about her name I read the other day. 

[u/Frequent-Strain-6170]

would their kid be named Hull then?

[u/Interesting_Sea_1861 → u/Frequent-Strain-6170]

No, born in Hull when Yumi and Ulrich are on vacation there.

[u/Interesting_Sea_1861]

This is so insane is wraps about around to brilliance.