I'm not the type to complain about "gratuitous Japanese."  But what's
"barou" mean?  Some contraction of bakayarou?

That's been my assumption about it. *shrug* All I know is, it's what
Shinichi uses, and even Kogoro uses it occasionally.

I just want to say that Yahiko (maybe Sano?  It's been a while, dammit)
uses it in Rurouni Kenshin occasionally.  In the text bubbles, the a is
hyphenated, so it's more like, "baarou!"

Which in my eyes lends more credence to it being a distorted version of
"bakayarou."

Lawrence


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