The word 昼メシ is in a manga I’ve read. 昼メシ is spelled 昼飯 when using all kanji. So why not just use kanji? Why change the 飯 to メシ？ Or at least – why is it not hiragana instead? I thought when a kanji wasn’t used, it’s at least replaced with hiragana (so like 昼めし)?
Why is メシ spelled in katakana here?
Just curious to know if there’s any literary reasoning for it – tone, meaning, simple commonality, things like that.
Thanks
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just stylistic, the author thought it looked more interesting that way
sometimes katakana is used for visual effect
sometimes it’s used like *italics*
sometimes it’s used to distinguish robots talking, i.e. アリガトウ
sometimes it’s a loan word up front with hiragana for the conjugatable part, i.e. “to google”=ググる “googled”=ググった