Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20161002173534

SuprK1 wrote: I am really really confused. Do I need to be able to read Japanese to understand it? I'm learning, and I can sound out hiragana, but I don't know what anything means. This is starting to get sort of off-topic, so if you have any other questions on this I'd ask that you please put them on my talk page. Since the question was asked here, I'll answer it here, but I don't want to let this thread get derailed for like the 15th time. That said, it is at least a bit relevant since I used it in evidence re: Nanika's lack of gendering.

So, what the text says. Two people in the reddit thread offer translations right there in the comments if you'd looked.

But here is exactly what the page with Nanika says:

Text on the left of her: 暗黒大陸 出身です  "From the Dark Continent". To break it down further: 暗黒大陸 " Dark Continent", 出身です  "(Implied subject: Nanika, as she's pictured in the image) came from".

The specific wording strongly implies (I would argue that based on the wording it isn't really an implication but there's room for doubt re: translation) that Nanika was born/spawned/however her species comes into existence on the Dark Continent and later traveled to the known world. How she left is still unknown (I'll eat an entire tomato if Zzigg isn't involved).

Text on the right of her: あい  Nanika's catchphrase. Translated by Crunchyroll as "'kay", spoken as "ai".

It's not the same spelling used for the Calamity, though ( アイ). The two words are phonetically identical, and are just two different alphabets (Nanika's catchphrase is in hiragana, the Ai's name is in katakana). Neither word is in kanji, so the individual characters have no meaning beyond being a written version of a syllable.