Hi, Mike -

>BTW, does anyone have a suggestion for a different name for the English version? Seems the connotations of plopp aren't making it a suitable name in English ;-)

How about "Poof"?

This is the sound with which things (often magically) appear and disappear in comics.

It's also used to dispense with drudgery or worries, as in, "Poof.  It was nothing."

	- D