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The English name of this glitch stems directly from the Japanese name. "Dokokashira" is a transliteration of the Japanese word "どこかしら", which translates to "somewhere" (or something more close to "somehow," except it specifies a place). The rest of the name is simply a translation of the Japanese name. The Japanese name is taken from the | The English name of this glitch stems directly from the Japanese name. "Dokokashira" is a transliteration of the Japanese word "どこかしら", which translates to "somewhere" (or something more close to "somehow," except it specifies a place). The rest of the name is simply a translation of the Japanese name. The Japanese name is taken from the gadget "''Dokodemo-Door''" ("どこでもドア", literally "''anywhere-door''") from the long-running Japanese manga ''Doraemon'', which is widely accepted in Japan. The gadget is a door-shaped machine that takes people to an arbitrary distant place, by entering the destination and just opening it. This was related to the glitch's feature where it makes the {{player}} to warp to distant places after walking through the door into {{ga|Blue}}'s house, except that the destinations are seemingly random - hence getting "Somewhere-door." | ||
==External links== | ==External links== |
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