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Utlity alias for Oreimo: kuroneko -> gokou ruri

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BUR #19526 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias kuroneko_(oreimo) -> gokou_ruri

Ruri's name isn't actually revealed in the series until much later after she's introduced, for a long time she's only ever referenced as Kuroneko. An alias feels useful/appropriate enough, especially for anybody newer to the series. I know it's not exactly a new one, bust still.

As an interesting addendum to this, Damian even did some helpful dives into the history of the tag on the Discord server... The light novel came out in like 2008 and her earliest posts are from around mid-2009, but she didn't even get tagged until 2011, which is about a year after the anime came out and massively increased the popularity/awareness of the series (pre-anime premiere in Oct 3, 2010, there were only 35 posts of her). By then her real name would've been known, but it's very likely that kuroneko_(oreimo) would've been created and used first as a tag if people had actually bothered from the start.

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As someone who has never gotten involved with this show, I have never seen anyone call her anything other than Kuroneko. I honestly just thought that was her actual name since I never paid any attention to the tags, and it's not strange for an anime character to just not have a proper name.

Toctoc said:

As an interesting addendum to this, Damian even did some helpful dives into the history of the tag on the Discord server... The light novel came out in like 2008 and her earliest posts are from around mid-2009, but she didn't even get tagged until 2011, which is about a year after the anime came out and massively increased the popularity/awareness of the series (pre-anime premiere in Oct 3, 2010, there were only 35 posts of her).

To be specific, prior to October 2010 (when the anime began airing), she only had 35 or so posts, and she had only been regularly tagged since April of that year... in fact, most of those 35 posts were tagged between April and October! The one exception, the oldest post under her tag, was only tagged in 2011! It would take until the month of the anime's airing for someone to try and tag Kuroneko on her posts, but her tag had already existed, so they were swiftly removed and her current tag got its wiki by November.

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