>>So in 'normal' Japanese it would be written 五人, 'go-nin',
>>'5-people'.
>
>Someone involved with the song production for K-On! likes
>playing with numbers; there are several songs with Arabic numerals in
>the titles, and one of the recurring "insert" songs HTT plays on
>screen several times over the course of the series, "Gohan wa Okazu",
>contains an untranslatable pun based on the number 5. The chorus
>involves repeated chanting of the line, "Ichi, ni, san, shi, go-ha-n,"
>which is basically "one, two, three, four,
>five-and-also-the-first-syllable-of-rice". :)

Yeah, anime people do seem to be inveterate punsters. Consider the title of "My-HiME", which is a four-way cross-language pun all by itself.