Capsule to this point: little Alice (age 4) has just learned how to write her name in hiragana, so she's showing off to Marisa (age 3), who proclaims her "Awesome!" Then Reimu (also 4) shows up, and _she_ knows how to write her name in _kanji_. Alice can't write her name in kanji. Marisa responds, "Then that means you're not awesome."
Capsule to this point: little Alice (age 4) has just learned how to write her name in katakana, so she's showing off to Marisa (age 3), who proclaims her "Awesome!" Then Reimu (also 4) shows up, and _she_ knows how to write her name in _kanji_. Alice can't write her name in kanji (since Alice is a foreign name, and so is translated into katakana - that and/or Alice honestly can't write kanji). Marisa responds, "Then that means you're not awesome."