What is the meaning of "Nyanpasu"?

I think ultimately, it has no meaning, and through that fact, it becomes overwhelmingly meaningful. What? you ask, 'that makes no sense?' In fact, you might even call it absurd that the meaning of life could be somehow revealed through a child's madeup greeting. But I'd like to show you how absurdity and childhood coalesce into the little philosopher that is Renge, and what we can learn from her and her adventures in Non Non Biyori.

Thanks to biochem and Combo33 for their help editing the script for this video.

References and Additional Reading:

Stackexchange question asking about Nyanpasu https://anime.stackexchange.com/quest...

Interview with Yoshinuma https://mantanweb.jp/article/2013110...

Viewing Nyanpasu from a linguistics lens https://vultureofcritique.wordpress.c...

Paper discussing why children are such good learners https://cocosci.princeton.edu/tom/pap...

Overview of Camus and his philosophy of absurdism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ca...

Some blog posts about absurdism written for a more general audience https://www.philosophytalk.org/blog/c... , https://philosophybreak.com/articles/...

Why children make more friends easily http://www.thehappytalent.com/blog/ki...

Overview of Sisyphus and image source https://www.worldhistory.org/sisyphus/

How "natsukashii" differs from generic nostalgia https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20...

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