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To start this one off:

I recently discovered some wordplay in the name 幻想郷 (gensoukyou). It's the word 理想郷 (risoukyou), which means utopia, but with the character 理 replaced with a near antonym.

理: Reason, logic, principles, understanding, discernment.
思: Thought, feeling, belief, perception.
郷: Country (in the "rural area" sense, not as in the "nation-state" sense).
理想: Ideals; abstract perfection that may never be obtained, but may still be strived for.
理想郷: "Ideal country", i.e. a utopia.

幻: Apparition; phantasm; vision (as in the phrase "seeing visions"). That which does not actually exist, but which is perceived as if it did.
幻想: Fantasy (in the "daydream" sense, not in the genre fiction sense) or illusion (either in the "hallucination" sense or in the "false belief" sense, not so much in the "fooled senses" sense as in the phrase "optical illusion").

幻想郷: An idyllic paradise for the fantastical. A haven for all those things that the reason-addled modern world can no longer comprehend.

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