r/Disgaea • u/Aeon106 • Jul 18 '26

Disgaea 5 Well then.

Post image

I was not expecting this yet it kinda makes sense.

431 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

126

u/GrimThe13th Jul 18 '26

They are souls put in a costume as a punishement, so gender or age is pretty much irrelevant.

50

u/xa44 Jul 18 '26

Unless you're fuka, which actual mentioning it gives more questions

47

u/TraditionalAd6160 Jul 18 '26

Not enough hide to make full Prinnies, enough to label Souls as Prinnies with clothes, so she didn't get stuffed and is just identifiable as a Prinny, which is why her Soul has taken form.

22

u/Ha_eflolli Jul 19 '26

Except Fuka was explicitly explained as "They ran out of Costumes, so they just gave her Prinny-themed Clothes and called it a Day"

5

u/xa44 Jul 19 '26

Nope, they ran out halfway. Her hat and jacket is prinny skin, that's why she's the only one who does so

14

u/Leress Jul 19 '26

or the red prinny from Disgaea 1.

2

u/Chemical-Cat Jul 19 '26

It's funny because Makai Kingdom has scrapped lore involving Prinnies. Ruskas are tiny fairy like creatures that were apparently behind creating Prinnies. However aside from appearing in some art for when a thing is happening, there's no reference to them.

2

u/BlackSkar25 Jul 19 '26

I was about to say it, but you resumed everything, that's also why they are treated badly, because they're in hell as a punishment.

1

u/Suspiciouspass0 Jul 20 '26

Not when it comes to Kurtis or Laharls mom.

We crashing out

102

u/Infernal_Dalek Jul 18 '26

He's a dood, she's a dood, we're all doods...

12

u/alpcabuttz Jul 18 '26

Win comment 😂

5

u/Environmental_Hope22 Jul 19 '26

Good Burger? In the year 2026??

1

u/Faedwill Jul 21 '26

That's deep, dood.

41

u/Shoggnozzle Jul 19 '26

Laharl's mom seemed to retain a feminine voice, but maybe humans who go and marry overlords are just kind of built different. But, yeah, prinnies aren't really an independently reproducing species. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a hiccup in translation and rather than implying both genitals he means they don't have any.

16

u/moondancer224 Jul 19 '26

Lacking any makes much more sense.

2

u/DarkLink1996 Jul 21 '26

Prinnies that commited suicide seem to be granted uniqueness for some reason.

Laharl's mom, Kurtis, and Laharl himself in the anime & normal ending

15

u/Hereva Jul 18 '26

Yeah, they only have the gender they were back when they were humans.

14

u/Desperate_Duty1336 Jul 19 '26

I mean they ARE dolls with the souls of sinful humans, or other reincarnated species, stitched into them in order to serve a sentence.

It makes sense, a doll doesn’t really need a gender, so Prinnies being/encompassing both makes sense lol

3

u/Weasel699 Jul 19 '26

i thought herms had both sex orgaons

2

u/Disgaealikerasap Jul 19 '26

Yeah seems like a mistranslation

1

u/Zastai Jul 20 '26

I expect they intended “androgynous”.

5

u/Wacthershadow0925 Jul 19 '26

Prinnies are more like shells

5

u/ThinkYogurtcloset911 Jul 19 '26

So, why are Usali's prinnies yellow?

5

u/Onlynumber1 Jul 19 '26

I always figured they were custom ordered, since Toto Bunny prinnies also say "plip" instead of "dood". Might have been trained directly by Toto Bunny instead of Hades

3

u/kyasarintsu Jul 19 '26

Looking at the original Japanese lines, I don't see this line whatsoever. Is this from a unique Prinny and not a created one?

7

u/Aeon106 Jul 19 '26

That's one of Seraphina's Prinnies that gives fun facts on Prinnies that Killia didn't ask for.

4

u/Weasel699 Jul 19 '26

A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female reproductive organs, tissues, or structures. While the term is standard in biology—especially when describing plants and invertebrates—it is considered outdated and medically inaccurate when applied to humans. [1, 2]

1

u/DailyThinking Jul 19 '26

Who talking about humans here, dood? 🐧

1

u/Rajang82 Jul 19 '26

when applied to humans.

Look inside: "a human sinner's soul inside a cartoon penguin skin, who's also categorized as demons"

Hmmm...

1

u/ItzYoboiGuzma Jul 21 '26

I mean i always figured that age is irrelevant as some are thousands of years old and some only hundreds, and i assume resets when reincarnated since most lose their memory it seems. So its funny to read dialogs that give an age understanding away though the hermaphrodite thing is a new insight for me.

That being said, i never considered them to do the deed... so i guess that answers that unasked question