Karen

""Hey, Sōsuke! Let's go play!""

- Karen

Karen  (カレン, Karen) is a minor character in the film. Sōsuke and Kumiko are her best friends. She is a student in Himawari Nursery School. Sōsuke first meets her in the film after he brings his pet soon-to-become best friend to school.

Appearance
Karen has brown hair and pink bows on her pigtails. She wears a light-pink shirt and darker pink pants. She has a light-green elephant plush toy that she carries around all the time.

Personality
Karen becomes quickly offended when Sōsuke didn't give in to her demands.

History
In kindergarten, Sōsuke tries to hide Ponyo. Karen goes to him. Then she asks him to play with her. But he refuses to do so. She turns her back and goes away, rather annoyed. Sōsuke uses the opportunity to look after Ponyo.

Etymology

 * The name Karen (3) is written in katakana (カレン), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (華蓮), it could possibly mean "flower, petal" (華) (ka) and "lotus, water lily" (蓮) (ren).

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