>>- I have a soft spot for Mogamin
>
>As do I, though I have to ask - what's the deal with the "-in" thing?
>I've seen it before, often but not always with other girls' names that
>end in I (Saori in Girls und Panzer calls Yukari "Yukarin" and
>Miho "Miporin"); assuming it's some kind of abbreviated variant of
>"-chan", but it's a hard thing to craft search terms for when you're
>looking for confirmation. :)

It's an affectionate way of using somebody's given name; like how you'd call a Fred "Freddie", only since most Japanese names already end on a vowel sound, tacking another vowel sound on the back doesn't do anything (or might even turn it into a different name).

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."