>>57538219She was Chinese.
That's all. Her verbal tick was the JP equivalent of saying chingchong.
They hard-stopped pandering to China, they redid the outfit & tweaked the lore. "Secluded village" became "secluded planet"; IDK if she actively changed her personality to match but now that I think about it a lot of her shtick makes perfect sense for a culture-shocked alien waifu ala Lum or Starfire.
