His name is "Maru."

possible

Heaven

Oh possible-san! I love Maru! These videos have made me smile and laugh so much. He is very popular and makes regular appearances on icanhascheezburger.com.

I hope Maru and his human(s) are ok.

Broken Promises

Awwww, I love Maru. I love the 2-for-1 box slide.

THinking of your people in Japan. We are getting daily updates on the tv news. My heart goes out to all of those who have been affected.

Gayle

So adorable!! It is wonderful to wake up and laughing already!! I will send on Maru to meet my cat friends today!! Thanks.

beatthesystem

What does Maru mean in Japanese?

I'm not sure, but Japanese ships always seem to have "maru" in the name.

PS: wikipedia is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru

The Japanese name for a circle, which is used to mean "correct"; the opposite of batsu. The end-of-sentence fullstop ' ? ' is also called maru. Maru also means zero '0' as in example 201: nii maru ichi

Maru (?) is a Japanese bailey (castle wall). See kuruwa.

Maru is a popular name for Japanese pets, mainly cats. This is because Maru is slang for "demon" or "spirit"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ship_naming_conventions#Maru

The word maru ( ? meaning "circle" ? ) is often attached to Japanese ship names. The first ship known to follow this convention was the Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet. There are several theories which purport to explain this practice:

The most common is that ships were thought of as floating castles, and the word referred to the defensive "circles" or maru that protected the castle.
That the suffix -maru is often applied to words representing something that is beloved, and sailors applied this suffix to their ships.
That the term maru is used in divination and represents perfection or completeness, or the ship as a small world of its own.
A legend of Hakudo Maru, a celestial being that came to earth and taught humans how to build ships. It is said that the name maru is attached to a ship to secure celestial protection for it as it travels.
For the past few centuries, only non-warships bore the maru ending. It was intended to be used as a good hope naming convention that would allow the ship to leave port, travel the world, and return safely to home port: hence the complete circle arriving back to its origin unhurt.

Today commercial and private ships are still named using this convention.

His name is "Maru."

possible-san

Heaven

Broken Promises

whereami

skeeter1

Gayle

beatthesystem

nancy drew

jgnat

St George of England

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