"Uhh... it doesn't mean anything in particular, I don't think? It's just a name," she says. If it were written in kanji, maybe, but her dad's the native speaker, and he's always written her given name in hiragana.

"But my last name, Aihara - when you write it in Japanese, it means something like 'love meadow'? I think the second character is 'meadow.' But the 'ai' part is definitely 'love.'"

「愛原あみ」, if you were wondering.