Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-3229139-20160323071753

SuprK1 wrote: Sango 珊瑚 wrote: I also feel that Alluka is a girl and Nanika is a boy, their personalities are pretty different...Alluka is joyable and active, she used to call Killua as "onii-chan", but Nanika is calm and silent, he used to answer "'kay" instead of talking much, and also refer Killua as "Killua". Nanika means something, but the written Japanese is 闇 (yami) but not 何か (nanika), "yami" means "darkness" and it probably has some connection to the Dark Continent. So for me it's like two different souls using one body LOL. Yeah, that's how I think of it too, except that I haven't gotten to the dark continent. I'm like chapter 120 or something, and I've finished both anime. But no Dark Continent.

Honestly I also concern that the databook is a bit outdated, since it was released during year 2004, and now it is 2016. I believe Togashi (the clever yet lazy old man LOL, Chinese just called him "the wicked-rich yet low righteousness one", 冨樫義博 is written as 冨奸義薄) changed his idea a bit to elaborate his manga work. Another point is about the Land of Kinka in Dark Continent (I make a huge views on reading same subject with different languages in Wikipedia), people in there don't differentiate the genders and they call princes and princesses as "prince".