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===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
Kricketune appears to be based on a {{wp|violin beetle}}, as well as {{wp|crickets}} because they make sounds by rubbing their arms on their abdomen. They are also based on music conductors, due to their mustache and their wings resembling capes. | Kricketune appears to be based on a {{wp|violin beetle}}, as well as {{wp|crickets}} because they make sounds by rubbing their arms on their abdomen. They are also based on music conductors, due to their mustache and their wings resembling capes. It is also shaped somewhat like a {{wp|grandfather clock}}. | ||
====Name origin==== | ====Name origin==== | ||
Its name comes from ''cricket'' and ''tune''. Its Japanese name may come from 蟋蟀 ''koorogi'', cricket, and a corruption of 曲 ''kyoku'', tune. | Its name comes from ''cricket'' and ''tune''. Its Japanese name may come from 蟋蟀 ''koorogi'', cricket, and a corruption of 曲 ''kyoku'', tune. | ||