Spell My Name with an "S"/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

Our page on [[Japanese Romanization]] goes into this in more detail and explains the reasons for almost all of the examples below.

 

 

 

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** Although most of the fandom refers to Rokusuke's partner as Beth, the Finnish translation of the manga calls him Bess. The matter is not made any simpler by the fact that [[Gender Blender Name|both are feminine names]].

** Rocca/Rocker/Locker

** Some prefer to call Weed's brother Joo over Joe. It was also believed for a long time that Joe/Joo's son was called Koujirou, but it was later found out that it's actually Kou''shi''rou.

** The [[Glorious Mother Russia|Russian dogs of war]] are especially plagued by this. Maxim/Maxime, Ridia/Lydia, Aramu/Aram/Allam/Alam, Iwanov/Ivanov, Victor/Viktor...

** Baron Ashura: In the Spanish dub in the seventies he was named "Ashler".

** Count Brocken: In some places he was called "Count Blocken".

** However, the worst offenders were the [[Robeast|Mechanical Beasts]] by far: Debira, Devira or Deviler X1? Belgas or Velgus V5? Doublas or Dabras M2? Zaira or Zaila? Bikong or Bicong 09? Holzon or Horzon V3? And so on.

** In the first Ranma video game, Cologne was spelled Colon.

** "Menchi" is "Mince" in the manga--according to the pop-up assists in the ADV-translated anime, "Menchi" does, in fact, mean "mince meat". Note that Viz handled the manga and apparently chose to ignore ADV's translations in the anime, so that's where these inconsistencies come from.

** Ropponmatsu II is sometimes called "Nishiki"<ref>Literally, 'second type/model'</ref> in the manga.

* Sylia / Celia Stingray from ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' was an older example of this trope.

** The 1992 parody fanfic ''[http://www.textfiles.com/stories/bgcspoof.txt Bubble Gum Cards]'' by Ryan Mathews pokes fun at this by never using the same spelling twice.

** Also, the robots/androids in the BGC world are ''Boomers''. They're frequently translated as, "buuma," because that's the strict Japanese spelling, but the fact is that the name was ''specifically'' chosen by the creators to evoke the raw destructive power of American nuclear submarines. You know, Boomers.

*** Somewhere in Tokyo 2040 it was written onscreen as VOOMER, spelt out as VOOdoo MEtal.

** Rock is Japanese, and his nickname is a contraction of his given name, Rokuro, so it ''cannot'' have an "L".

** But how many westerners use names like THOSE in the present day?

** There's also Casca/Caska/Kyasuka/Kjaskar, Schierke/Silke, Rickert/Ricket, Shisu/Sys, and quite a few others.

** The most infuriating example is Julius. An authentic latin name. The name of the man who began the end of the Republic, heck it's even the name of a month in the western calendar. But all translations insist on calling him Jurius for some inexplicable reason.

** Although early chapters of the manga (and some episodes of the anime as well, if I'm not mistaken) romanized Guu's name as "Goo".

** The problem is that Hare is an actual Japanese word, 晴れ or はれ and should be read as such in the title, but since it is written in katakana as ハレ some translators assumed it must be a non-Japanese word.

** There are some minor confusions as well - such as Reiji/Leiji/Lazy, Wiggle/Uigher and Weda/Ueda.

** ... Which they still are, at least for the characters that aren't named in the opening. Mr. Chic/Tick/Tik/Tic/Chick/Chik/ARRRRRRRGGGG! Jefferson probably gets the worst of it.

** Most fans spell "Palparepa" like that when the official spelling is "Palpalapa". Also, spelling "GaoFighGar" as "GaoFaiGar", though in fairness, those instances are mostly in discussions of [[Super Robot Wars]] Alpha 3 or W where the writer's only exposure to GaoFighGar was through kana.

* "Raidiin"/"[[Raideen]]", licensed "Raydeen", and the remake ''[[Reideen]]''.

* The famous space pirate Captain Herlock is better known as ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' in English, with most fans preferring the latter spelling.

** Mainly because it ''IS'' his official name as per Leiji Matsumoto's plans. He was called "Herlock" due to copyright reasons.

** Light Yagami is an odd example, since, to most fans, it sounded so odd they assumed it had to be ''Raito''. Some scanslations and even the first official translations had trouble with this, as they had gone with "Raito", then had to switch to Light half way through the series (as the intended spelling became known). Some fans even call him Lighto/Laito as a compromise.

** Some fans simply call Light(/Raito) "Kira", a name that is subject to minor debate itself. Is it Kira or Killer or Killa?

** Near and Mello were written as "Nia" and "Mero" in some scanlations at first.

** Hal Lidner/Hal Ridner/Halle Ridner/Halle Lidner/Harinda.

** It's Ray'''e''' Penber, strangely enough. Also, on his ID card his last name reads "Penbar" in the episode he shows it, only to be corrected to "Penber" in the next episode.

** Rem/Remu and Ryuk/Ryuuku.

** "Aiba" and "Weddy". "Weddy" was actually used in the first OVA, while the official translations call them Aiber and Wedy.

*** It should also be noted that the title of the "official" Geneon release has it ''both'' ways: the title is listed as "Elemental Gelade" if you have the English subbing turned on, whereas the actual title sequence has "Erementar Gerad" appearing below the original kanji (look for it after the silhouette of Ren appears in the title, in the lower right).

* Speaking of giant robots, many of the ''[[Gundam]]'' series pick up mangled names on the way to production, most of which get more reasonable conversions overseas. Which, depending on where in the translation process one starts watching, can make it nearly impossible for the fandom to agree on which is the "correct" spelling.

** Zeon's arguably the worst case of it in the entire franchise, as it can be (and has been at various points in the past) been translated as the Principality, Duchy, Archduchy, or Grand Duchy of Zeon, Zion, or Jion. Zeon was simply the cleanest translation of the original Japanese, but they only settled on Principality after looking at the Japanese terms for [[Did Do the Research|real-life principalities/duchys/whatevers]] and realizing that Principality was the only exact match.

*** Her name is a pun based on an old [[Lolicon|Lolicon hentai magazine]] called Lemon People, which was frequently abbreviated as L People. Lemon People -> L People -> Elpeo Ple, or if you want to be more specific about it, "レモンピープル" -> "エル・ピープル" -> "エルピー・プル". [[Don't Explain the Joke|Its funny because she's a little girl, you see]]. That said, this case is especially amusing because significant portions of the fandom have ''outright refused'' to acknowledge her name as "Ple," not out of any concerns of canonicity, but specifically because they feel that the name "Ple" is ''stupid.''

*** Confusing matters further, the official Japanese material uses different spellings than the official English material, so although the last versions of each of the above examples are, strictly speaking, the "correct" versions for Western audiences, spellings like "Raww le Klueze" and "Mwu la Fllaga" are equally official. Fans will never agree on which version is more correct.

** The worse part of this whole phenomenon in the Gundam [[Fan Dumb]] who ''insist'' on using the older, outdated translations of certain terms ''just'' to establish themselves as "old school" fans who were around before you kids had your "official versions" or "correct translations".

** Also: Mara/Marller.

*** In this case, it's justified. The name is written as Marā, and the pronunciation for it is indeed closer to Marller than to Mara. The blunder, if anything, is on the official translation's part, because her name is most definitely NOT spelled the same way it's written.

* Fan translations of ''Cosmo Police Justy'' transliterated two characters' names as Jelna and Astaris. The Viz ''Justy'' translation, such as it was, decided they were Jerna and Astalis.

* Kururu (Kululu), Angol Moa (Angolmois), and Rabie (Lavie) in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''.

** Ironically enough, the German dub insists on Ruffy, pronouncing it in a perfectly English way. This is explained in a translator Q&A in the manga -- Ruffy (as in "rough") sounds more like a pirate name than Luffy.

** There's also the dispute over Roguetown vs. Loguetown (as in "prologue" and "epilogue"); the guy that makes the series spells it in the series as "Loguetown", but it got changed in the 4kids dub.

** The English dub has no choice with Zoro/Zolo.

** In the first volume of the English manga they used Zoro, but in vol. 2 they changed it to Zolo, mainly to pander to the English dub available at the time (4kids)

*** And don't forget that "Marine" is, in several languages, a direct translation of the English "Navy".

**** Also don't forget that, even in English, the civilian shipping capacity of a nation is often called its Merchant Marine. The two words shared a meaning at some point in the past, which sort of muddles the issue.

** Most recent perhaps is the giant Luffy-powered zombie Ouzu/Oz/Odz. Oz is the most common spelling of his name, but a strong theory is that the name is meant to refer to Odr, a god of the Norse Pantheon. Some translators have thus mixed Oz and Odr together to make the spelling "Odz." Some fans have [[Take a Third Option|taken a third option]] and just use "Odr."

*** Chapter 551 shows {{spoiler|a ship with the word Oars III.}} Chapter 554 reveals {{spoiler|that the descendant of the giant zombie is one of Whitebeard's allies.}} So now some think "Oars" is the official spelling.

*** In Japanese katakana, "ju" is the closest basic equivalent to the "du" that could be used. Though in katakana it is possible to write "du", Oda opted for "ju."

*** Some think it should be written Juraquille.

** Vivi's duck also suffers from this trope, as the name Karoo has been spelled as Karu, Carue, and Kaloo.

** Not to mention the fact that fans tend to spell even the names of the main characters in vastly different ways. This may be caused by the horrid HK (Honk Kong) subs. Ex: Sanji = Sunkist/Haingis, Usopp = Liar<ref> "Uso" means "lie", making it a literal translation of a [[Meaningful Name]]</ref> Bu/King Bu/Crock Bu, Zoro = Sauron/Churk Lok, etc

** One of the oldest ones - the name of the currency in the world of ''One Piece''. The official translation uses "berry" for its name, but "belli" is frequently used as well. Compounding matters is one early image (at the end of the Arlong Park arc) which shows Nami holding a note that says "10,000 Belly."

** Speaking of interesting spellings seen in the anime itself, the doctor who takes care of Laboon signs his name as "Krokos" on his painting of the sky while the subs write him as "Crocus," and Alvida's wanted poster has her as "Aluvida."

* The English releases of the series that made up ''[[Robotech]]'' -- ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross]]'', ''Southern Cross'', and ''Genesis Climber Mospeada'' -- deliberately used different spellings for the characters and races whose names weren't changed. For example, Roy Fokker instead of Roy ''Focker'', or the Invid instead of ''Inbit''.

** ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'''s secondary character Millia was a notable offender. Her first name has been spelled Millia, Milliya, Milia, Miliya, Miria, and Miriya. Then there's her Zentraedi surname, which has been translated most often as variants of "Fallyna", though some subtitles inexplicably translate it as "Parino"; this could be taken from the one time it was used in ''Robotech'', where it was given as "Parina"

*** Almost none of the Zentradi characters escape this. Mostly because the eventual official spellings of their names are completely impossible to reproduce in Japanese. (the only ones that did were the three spies Warera, Rori, and Konda, because the portmanteau of their names is a [[Punny Name|pun]] in Japanese).

* The name of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s signature weapon is レイジングハート, which can be transliterated as either ''reijing haato'', "Raging Heart", or as ''reizing haato'', "Raising Heart". The [[Word of God]] is that the latter is correct. The main issue here is that spoken Japanese makes no distinction between the "ji" and "zi" syllables, as the latter doesn't exist. Thus both "Raging" and "Raising" are pronounced as "Raging".

** For added confusion, the English dub switches from "Raging" to "Raising" at the beginning of the second season-- and the subtitles for the first season switch back and forth!

*** The official spelling of the Azure Wolf's name seems to change with every release. While earlier side-materials used 'Zafila', the later video game adaptation went with 'Zafira'.

** Caro presents an odd example, as she's clearly named after her tribe, so they should be spelled the same; instead, her surname is always written "ru Lushe" or "Ru Lushe", yet the tribe itself is called "Lu-Lushe". Even her employee card uses both spellings.

*** In the early days before StrikerS aired, Caro's full name, romaji'ed "Kyaro Ru Rushie", was transliterated into Carole le Loussier. That is, until after [[Word of God|canon materials state the otherwise]]. Hey, it makes sense...

*** Though this may be because "Tea" [[Spot of Tea|could be confusing]].

*** Such people often refer to her full name as "Tiana", although that doesn't fit in the [[Theme Naming]] with many characters being named after cars.

*** It's possible that it could be "Chariot" (if you pronounce "Chariot" in a French way, it sounds like "Shario", and she is apparently named after the Mitsubishi Chariot).

** Signum's sword is usually either Laevatein or Levantine.

* Tokyopop seems to like these.

** ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' has them in droves. Characters' names are phonetically spelled (Lios/"Ryos"), spelling idiosyncrasies are inconsistently used ("BlackRose"/"Black Rose"/"Blackrose"), character names are switched around...

** The translators had to correct the name "Blanche" - they intended to use "Branchir". This was because the translator had completely missed the point that the angel is ALL WHITE.

*** The fansubbers mostly make the same mistakes, with the exception of the aliens, whose names were basically just romaji-fied: Quiche = Kishu, Pie = Pai, and Tart = Taruto. The 4Kids Macekre ''Mew Mew Power'' threw [[Theme Naming]] out the window and changed everyone's names anyway (Ichigo = Zoey/Mew Zoey, for instance). If you want to preserve the [[Theme Naming]], it would really be best for the girls' names to be Ichigo/Mew Strawberry, Minto/Mew Mint, Retasu/Mew Lettuce, Bu-Ling/Mew Pudding, and Zakuro/Mew Pomegranite.

** One of Tokyo Pop's early and most [[Egregious]] errors was during their translation of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' in which one particular character's name was romanized (rather than translated properly) TWO DIFFERENT WAYS in the SAME ISSUE of the magazine.

** The Death Busters were mangled left and right. [[Geneon]]'s subtitles for Sailormoon S gave "Eugeal" and "Yujial" to "Eudial", Telulu to Tellu, Byruit to Viluy, Cyprin to Cyprine, Ptilol to Petirol, and Kaorinite to Kaolinite. Tokyopop somehow mangled "Ptilol" into Petite Roll, and amusingly changed Kaolinite's latin title, Magus (mage), to Mag'''n'''us (large). They also called her "Kaori Night". A US doll box kept that name, though a popular fan mistranslation mixed it up as "Kaori Knight", as they did a completely unrelated [[Tokyo Pop]] translation of an animanga. The English dub spelled Mimete's name as "Mimet", but pronounced it the same way as her Japanese name. It's also notable that many fans had trouble with Ptilol's name because it's not pronounced or spelled like that in Japanese, leading to such mutations as "Pikurol" or "Puchirol" that ignored the etymology.

** The Lemures were "Remless" in the English subtitles by [[Geneon]], even though Lemures actually is a type of mythical creature with metaphorical significance to the plotline. Some fans have theorized that Geneon thought it was a play on "REM-less," a reference to REM sleep, as the Lemures were {{spoiler|human beings whose Dream Mirrors had been eaten by Queen Nehellenia.}}

*** And speaking of that subject, there is a lot of [[Internet Backdraft]] related to the Amazones Quartetto/Amazoness Quartet. "Amazoness Quartet" makes no logical sense, since an Amazon is female and therefore does not need a feminine modifier added to it. The Greek pluralization is "Amazones" and would still gives us "Amazons Quartet" when translated, which is grammatically off but logically consistent. However, one single piece of Japanese merchandise romanized it to "Amazoness" (though that isn't canonical and the same doll line made numerous other errors of accepted names) and that spelling had been accepted for years (especially on [[Wikipedia]]) and [[Word of God]] has said nothing about the correct spelling. [[Geneon]] used it when they didn't ignore it entirely and replace it with "Amazon." The dub always called them the Amazon Quartet. "Quartetto" is either meant as the Italian word for "Quartet," or it's a literal romanization of "Quartet". People get very passionate about this name.

**** Some references say that the name is a reference to the ''Amazon jungle'', not to female warriors, in which case "Amazoness" would be, if still stilted English, not technically wrong. The Dead Moon Circus is explicitly stated to come from the Amazon and that is where they found the Quartet in the first place. Also the Amazon Trio is made up of men from the Amazon.

*** Is it Sabão Spray (based on the Portuguese word for soap) or Shabon Spray (based on the Japanese word for bubble)? Given that the word "shabon" is in itself taken from the Portuguese word "sabão" (there are a few Portuguese loanwords in Japanese, such as "pan" meaning "bread"), it could safely be written either way.

*** All right, one item. Chibimoon has an item in SuperS called the "Stallion Reve". "Reve" is French for "dream", which makes sense considering what the power does and the whole dream theme in SuperS. Some fans actually translated it to "Stallion Lav". "Lav" is French for "Bath". Note the utter lack of monsters getting showers from Chibimoon.

** Even in the series itself, there were problems. The main antagonist of the first arc of the manga is named Gakuto. His name is written in katakana for most of the series, and is meant to evoke the singer Gackt, leaving his name as Gackto. However, once and only once, he uses kanji for his name that can only be read as Gakuto. And on top of that, the anime called him Gaito to distance the character from the singer and play up the connection to Kaito.

** And the prototype for Lucia, Lyre, is called "Riiru", a nonsense name, by the usually-accurate manga translation.

** The first release of the first episode fansubbed called the penguin Hip. Also, not fansub-wise, but some fans often misspell Hanon's name as Han'''n'''on.

** An old VHS subtitled release of ''Universe'' called Ryoko "Royce" for reason...but only in the blurb on the back of the box. The actual episodes had the correct subtitles.

* Many Japanese ''[[Transformers]]'' names suffer from this, and it's a running gag within the fandom. Deathsaurus/Deszaras/Deathsanras/[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deathsaurus Debt Source (if you're in a particularly snarky mood)] is a key example, as is Minerva/Minelba/[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Minerva jailbait]. There is also Bardigus/Vuldigus/Barudigasu, a misspelling of "Bruticus," the [[Transformers Generation 1]] character Ruination is basically a [[Palette Swap]] of.

* ''[[Karin]]'' and her two siblings use the last name "Maaka", yet their parents, Henry and Carrera, have elected to use the surname "Marker". This is entirely intentional, though. The series explains from the very beginning that the family moved from Europe to Japan. The kids, having been raised in Japanese society, adopted the Japanese spelling, while the old-timey parents retained the original European spelling.

* Likewise, in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' the points where Miki's name seems to change to and from "Mickey" are intentional; "Mickey" is a romanization of the nickname "Mikki" and is pronounced differently from "Miki", even if the difference is hard for English speakers to hear.

** The [[FUNimation]] dub uses place names like Lior and Ishbal, while the creator, Hiromu Arakawa, uses Reole and Ishval. The English manga can't seem to make up its mind which versions to use; for instance, fluctuating between "Ishbal" and "Ishvarla", "Xerxes" and "Cserksess", etc.

*** The Funimation sub of ''Brotherhood'' uses Ishbal for the first five episodes, then switches to Ishval in the sixth (likely due to a map in the fifth episode that clearly says "Ishval").

*** The actual dub of ''Brotherhood'' likewise officially switches it to "Ishval".

*** Add another one to the list: Liesenburgh. Found in a [[Scanlation]] of chapter 8.

*** The Spanish official translation of the manga has it Riesenburg (German for Castle of Giants or Giantville).

*** This is so bad that even the offical translations have it spelled differently... ON THE SAME PAGE. See book nine, where it's spelled "Resembool" in one pannel, and then "Resemboul" two pannels later.

** With the characters Lin/Ling Yao and Mei/May Chan/Chang, a G was added top their names within one or two volumes for no apparent reason than the translators forgot their own name choice.

**** This should be blamed on Hiromu Arakawa, in all other official english translation (such as the Character guides, and calenders) it's always Lin Yao, it's only Ling in that one panel.

*** Viz also ping-ponged between "Van" and "Von" for Hohenheim's first name for a while, until they were forced to settle on Von when the Paracelsus reference came up.

*** My DVD box set (see below) has it as "Ciska".

** The strangest is Lan Fan's grandfather, who the fans refer to as Fu; the official perfect guide for the manga refers to him as "Who". Apparently, Arakawa likes baseball.

** The official ''Viz'' translation of the manga called Mustang's bodyguard Riza, and Elizabeth by {{spoiler|Madame Christmas}}.

*** The OFFICIAL translation also has Winry calling her "Ms. Lisa". Oy.

** And there's Zolf/Solf J. Kimbley/Kimblee/Kimbly/Kimberly. Confirmed, as of that one ''Brotherhood'' [[Eyecatch]], to be Solf J. Kimblee.

** Is it Dr. Knox, or Dr. Knocs, Dr. Knoks, or Dr. Knocks?

** Denny Bloch/Brosh.

** Fans have been torn in the past on whether it's "Roze" Thomas or "Rose" Thomas. Likewise her lookalike from [[The Movie]] has this problem, "Noa" or "Noah"? Both of the latter two names come off as [[Meaningful Name]]'s.

** Not to mention the million different spellings of Lenalee Lee: Rinali, Linali, Linalee... Plus, her surname can be romanized as either Lee or Li. And then there's Rabi vs. Lavi and Tyki Mikk vs. Ticky Mick and... basically 90% of the characters in the series are subject to this.

*** Worse than any of the others, some of the names for one of the Noah twins: Devit, Debit, Debitt, David, Debitto, Devitto, Debbit.

** Luckily, [[Word of God|the author]] added a nice chart with all the characters' names, in English, to one of the volumes. A similar chart with the same spellings (also English) followed one of the anime episodes. The [[All There in the Manual|fanbook]] includes the official romanisation of each character's name in their character profiles, and the recent manga compliation volumes include English name spellings in the profiles of all the characters written into the story since the fanbook was produced - ''except'', for some reason, for the new Noahs. Though one of the names on the author's list and in the fanbook is spelled "Jeryy," so some fans choose to ignore the list.

** To be perfectly fair, while intended to be a pun on bloomers/buruma, the character's very first appearance (and several subsequent ones) has her wearing a shirt with 'Bulma' printed right across her chest. Her creator messed up his L/Rs and it stuck. The spelling itself is consistent, if the characters still always call her 'Buruma.' Calling Bra "Bulla" is pure [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerisation]], though.

*** The UK dubs of the movies call her Bloomer, incidentally.

*** Kuririn's name is actually spelled "Kulilin" on his ballcap during the "trip to Namek" story arc. His name is meant to be a portmanteau of ''Kuri''(a Japanese chestnut) and ''shourin'' (as in a Shaolin monk).

*** Some Bandai toys (like the Super Collection figures) and at least one cel art has his name spelled as "Klilyn".

** "Vegeta". The series is full of name puns, every Saiyan is named after a vegetable, and it has been recently revealed that this character's younger brother is named "Table/Tarble." And yet, there are still some people who will violently insist that the character is named "Bejiter."

*** Similarly, there are people who will insist on using Torankusu and Gotenkusu instead of Trunks and Goten.

** The name "Vegetto" <ref> ''Bejitto''</ref>, the combined alter-ego of Goku and Vegeta whose name is a portmanteau of Goku's Saiyan birth name with Vegeta's, only makes sense if you romanize the name "Kakarotto" literally instead of using the more popular variation, "Kakarot". Because of this, Viz renamed him "Vegerot" in the English manga. On the other hand, the Funimation dub used the spelling "Vegito", which was originally used on action figure made by Irwin Toys and makes no sense in the context of the English dub.

*** Then again, he still insists that her name is Larry - at the 1993 Anime America convention, he responded to a fan's question about the character with "It's Larry, not Rally". Make of that what you will. Her name is also written as "Larry" in one part of the manga.

*** Interestingly, Larry is the name of Irene's father.

** Meanwhile, the big bad of the Battle City story arc has his named rendered as "Marik", rather than "Malik" (which is an Arabic word meaning "ruler").

** Dear God, with most of the cards in the Japanese (OCG) version of the card game have English names as opposed to native Japanese ones by this point in time, it's a miracle the translations don't come as garbled text when they are localized as far as names go, considering the series's lack of a grasp on the English language. The "Koa'ki Meiru" archetype as known in the English (TCG) version could also be romanized as "Core Chimail" or "Core Chimera", and if you want it push it overboard try "Coral Shemale".

** In ''Yu-Gi-Oh'''s [[Fanfic]]-writing fanbase, this transliteration discrepancy [[Fan Nickname|is conventionally dealt with]] by calling Yami Ma(r/l)ik "Marik" and normal Ma(r/l)ik "Malik."

*** Doujin refer to Atem as either Atemu or Otome quite commonly, even though Atem is the name of an actual Egyptian god.

** Similar to the Isis/Ishizu example above, Seto (the priest from Atem's time, not Seto Kaiba)'s name is a literal romanisation of the Egyptian god Set. They kept it as "Seto" in the English dub presumably to fit the mouth movements.

** In all fairness, the Japanese version of the show showed their names written down on their entry form as "Lua" and "Luca".

* And then we get to ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]]'', with its introduction of Excess... err, ''Exceed''... no, wait, '''''[[Word of God|Xyz]]''''' Monsters.

** Unlike many examples here that ignore [[Theme Naming]], the ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' fansubs initially ignored on-screen references to "Sara Cruz", calling her "Sara Crewe" ''because'' of the theme. There's also Ermy, who is supposed to be named after Ermengarde St. John, but whose name was on the fansubs as "Amy". And the fact that everyone's last name is a variation on that of their Hodgson Burnett counterpart (usually a [[Significant Anagram]]) makes them somewhat clumsy and difficult to pronounce, so "Gelh", "Johannits", "Reberth" and "Shoebbeypower" had a lot of alternatives before they were written onscreen.

*** A purposeful use of the trope is Sousuke Sagara - whom Mao interprets as "[[Steven Seagal|Seagal]]".

* Similar to ''Gundam'', ''[[Code Geass]]'' uses Western names heavily. The most prominent example is Kallen Stadtfelt, who some fans '''still''' call "Karen" despite [[Word of God]] reinforcing "Kallen" as official. Since she's biracial and passing as Britannian, a lot of people settle for "Kallen Stadtfeld" as her public name and "Kouzuki Karen" as her real name.((Except when you consider that KAREN is a typical Western name and thus would make no sense for Kallen to use a Britannia-style name for her Japanese identity)) In a similar but stranger fashion, there seems to be heavy disagreement over whether female lead C.C.'s name should be pronounced "C-Two" or "Cici" (the former is official). One fansub referenced Rivalz as Leval, which would certainly make sense for a citizen of the somewhat Gallic Britannia. Just to add to it, the American actors render the name as sounding something like "Rivvle" in an attempt to preserve the original pronunciation.

*** The confusion here stems from the fact that Japanese sometimes uses the same characters for words beginning with G, D, and Z; this led to a debate over whether Britannia's Knight the Third was named "Gino Weinberg" or "Zino Weinberg", both of which were used in magazines and official sources. For the record, "Gino" is used in the American dub.

*** It's the result of the fact that the initial consonant sounds of two different katakana, ジ and ヂ, are used to represent an unfortunate number of English sounds, (including d, z, zh, and j, possibly among others), and their sounds have converged to be almost identical in modern Japanese to the point where the kana themselves are almost entirely interchangable. Compare the Japanese borrowing of "radio", ''rajio'' (ラジオ). Ask any beginning student of Japanese about those two kana, and you're likely to get an exasperated sigh in return.

** Many fansubs refer to Nunnally as Nanaly.

*** Or Nunnary. Which makes it sound like she's named after a place full of women devoted to Christianity.

*** Or even Nanari.

** What about Lelouch's nickname? Is it Lelou, or Lulu?

** The fandom had a field day with Rolo. For a long time, the fandom was split between Rollo and Rolo, and at least one group of subbers referred to him as, of all things, ''Lolo''.

** Euphemia's diminutive is even lampshadded in-universe. Euphy is widely used, but Euphie is apparently the "right" form. Then Nunnally engraves "Euphy" on her candle, and confesses to Suzaku she is ashamed because she's not even sure she spelled it correctly.

*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Keep in mind that Nunnally is blind, and most likely can't tell how it came out]].

* The official translation of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' lost something in calling the protagonist's [[Heterosexual Life Partners|best friend forever]] Arisu. Since much of the series' plot hangs on themes of disconnect and dissociation (sometimes to the levels of [[Mind Screw|schizophrenic psychosis]]), an opportunity was missed to emphasize them in a subtle way. Consider, if you will, the whole l/r thing and think about what their names are. Lain. Alice. "Arisu" isn't any weirder than any other Japanese name to American ears, so why should she say "Isn't that weird?" whe she introduces herself. Everyone around the two of them has nice normal Japanese names, but they've got English names. They're ''different.'' It's just one more reason they're fated friends (and possible (([[Hide Your Lesbians|but never explicit]])) [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]). [[Alice Allusion|Not to mention all the times Arisu/Alice gets thrown down the metaphorical rabbit hole]].

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Rock Lee's mentor has had ''both'' of his names vary in spelling: Might/Mighty/Maito Guy/Gai (official translation: [http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1144/152153ow9.jpg Might Guy]). Despite there being an official spelling, there's still too many fans who insist on one of the other spellings.

** To be fair, almost every translation prior to the official one had his name as Gai, and that is a more common transliteration. Also, the official translation of the manga [[Inconsistent Dub|originally used "Mighty Guy"]].

** Shii, Shi, Shee, C, Shī

* ''[[Simoun]]'' had its main character's name generally rendered as Aaeru, with some groups of fans insisting that this was a Japanization of 'Aelle' until the official romanization turned out to be 'Aer'.

** Through official manga title pages and official CDs, some characters' spellings have already been established. Examples: Nnoitra, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, Nel, brothers Yylfordt and Szayel Aporro Granz, Aaroniero....but one we may never be sure of is that kid Arrancar: is it Wanderweiss or Wonderwice?

***** Interestingly enough, Ulquiorra's spelled name is a mistransliteration of Patricia '''Urqiola''', a Spanish architect.

*** The double r is [[Alphabetical Theme Naming|really just a theme among their names]].

** The Wiki also insists that Nnoitra's last name is now "Gilga" instead of "Jiruga"

** Cuulhorne's another example, as his name's proper spelling was only revealed on a cover page {{spoiler|just after he died}}.

* To the irritation of most of its Western fans, the beautifully dubbed ''[[The Heroic Legend of Arislan]]'' switched horses in mid-stream and changed pronunciation for all major characters and cities after the first two films were released, turning Arislan, Daryoon, Narsus, Pharangese, and Gieve into Arslan, Darun, Narcasse, Farangis, and Guibu.

** Actually, it's more complicated. Iriginally the names of characters and places either came from Persian legends (Arslan, Farangis, Giv, etc.) or are native to various languages like Farsi, Hindi, Urdu (Daryun, Elam, Etwar, etc. Many places mentioned in the story, such as Ecbatana or Atropatene, actually exist or existed in real life). The person who translated the anime to English [[Did Not Do the Research]] and treated the names as if they were random fantasy names, hence Arislan, Pharangese, Daryoon, Gieve and so on. The most jarring decision was turning Etwar/Ester into Etoile/Estelle, despite that the story has a very obvious ancient Middle-Eastern type setting. And ''then'' the above mentioned [[Executive Meddling]] happened.

* ''[[Rune Soldier Louie|Mahou Senshi Ryui]]'', where the name of the main character, a sorcerer who acts like a brawler, can be translated as Ryui or Louie.

* In ''[[Gungrave]]'', minor character Blood War frequently had his name translated as Brad Wong by dubbers thrown off by the unusual pronunciation.

** In certain translations, Yuria is sometimes anglicized to "Julia".

** The short-lived [[Viz Media]] translation of the manga anglicized Rei's name to "Ray", while his sister Airi became Iris. Mamiya also became Mamia, which is actually closer to how her name is pronounced.

** In their defense, it's extremely unusual for someone living permanently in Japan to use a non-Japanese spelling or punctuation (hell, it used to be outright illegal for citizens) and 90% of resident Chinese would use Jenrya and Shiuchon, just because that's what everyone reading your name would call you.

*** The ''Jenrya'' and ''Shiuchon'' pronounciations would still be considered foreign. The natural Japanese pronounciation of their names would be ''Ri Kenryou'' and ''Ri Shoushun''. Even then though, the structure of their names would still mark them as foreign.

** That's also the question surrounding ''any'' anime characters of a Hong Kong heritage: their name should be romanized as Canetonese or Mandarin? In that case, it'd be more realistic to call Lee as Lee Kin-leung.

** His name can be romanized as either ''Li Xiaolang'' or ''Li Hsiao Lang''. On the other hand, since Xiaolong is from Hong Kong, his name ''really'' should be pronounced ''Lei Siulong''.

** The ''Cardcaptors'' dub, however, actually switched his name so that Li was his given name, his surname then becoming Showron. This admittedly isn't as bad as what was done to most characters, who got completely new names.

*** Some fans think ''Cardcaptors'' did this to [[Bowdlerise]] incest. Li Meiling is his cousin and also his fiancée (until this is [[Retcon|Retconned]]). Shifting around his name, while not shifting around Meiling's name (and romanizing "Li" as "Rae" for her) hides this.

* Also from ''Tsubasa'', Fye became Fai became Fay. Interestingly, Fay is pronounced how Fye and Fai would normally be. The official spelling is actually Fay D Flourite. His last name was previously also interpreted "Flowright", even being spelled as such in the official English manga. In fact, the [[Word of God]] spelling is erroneous, as the name refers to the mineral ''fluorite'', the sacred crystal in his wizard's staff. And there is no need for a period after the "D" because it's not an initial but a infixed title. Fay causes a great many translator migraines.

*** Diablomon/Diaboromon.

** Also from 02: Lighdramon/Raidramon - either "Light dragon" or "Rai (Japanese: thunder) dragon." The latter makes more sense.

*** As well as Arachnemon, whose official dub name (Arukenimon) seems to have come from how the name is pronounced in the Japanese version.

*** Going back to ''Digimon Data Squad'', that aside from Tohma/Touma/Tooma, his sister, Relena. In the original, it's said as Ririina (Liliina?). Of course, being reminded of the English ''Sailor Moon'' dub, [[Writing Around Trademarks|perhaps it sounds too close]] to Rini a.k.a., Chibiusa

* ''Shaman King'' has Ren/Len/Lian. The first is the best-guess roman spelling, the third is [[Word of God|Takei-Sensei's given proper reading]], and Len is his name in the dub.

** This trope caused many readers to miss a fairly important plot point: Meleoron {{spoiler|is Gyro, which is really the same name as Jail}}.

* ''[[Di Gi Charat]]'': One character is usually transliterated as "Rabi~en~Rose" -- when it really ought to be "La Vie En Rose", a French saying meaning "Life in Pink", or rather, "seeing through rose-colored glasses'.

** Past that, despite the miracle of official websites with consistently-spelled names in the URLs, you'll occasionally see references to "Lynn", "Ulala" or even "Oolala" (though oddly not "[[Code Geass|Kallen]]" or "[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch|Caren]]"). And some sites insist on turning Rin into the flat-out wrong "Karin" for some reason ([[Portmanteau Couple Name|shipping?]]).

** It's extremely common in Japanese to shorten long, clumsy romanized words into 3 or 4 syllable "native" words. (e.g. ''waapuro'' for word processor, "jipan" for jean pants, "sutamen" for starting member, etc.) Shortening ''Pretty Cure'' to "purikyua" is merely following that tradition.

** While on the subject of ''Inuyasha'', while all title cards and subtitles refer to a "Kirara", the English dub uses the pronunciation "Kilala" - the Japanese version, of course, falling somewhere in the middle, since Japanese doesn't have distinct "r" and "l" sounds.

*** Which makes it a bit confusing when Episode 91 introduced Kuroro, another cat whose name the characters pronounce as spelled.

* Even ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'' has this, mostly because there's very little official sources to use for spelling the names. "Speedy Cerviche" is officially the title character's name. It's based on "ceviche", which is a kind of seafood salad. For years, many fans adopted the name "Service", using Italian phonetics, because it made the tidy pun of "Speedy Service". It's strange that this should happen in the ''English dub'' of a franchise, but there you go.

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the official translation refers to the [[Humongous Mecha]] as "Gunmen", confusing fans that had long since been calling them "Ganmen". Then there's the pronunciation of "Simon" (which is Romanized that way despite not being pronounced like the name Simon). The original uses "she-moan", while the dub uses "see-moan"; these both [[Narm|lead to humor]] as they both sound dirty ''and'' like the girl's name "Simone"). There's also Rossiu/Rosshiu.

** Another thing is that the last word in the "[[Calling Your Attacks|Giga Drill Break(er)" is "Breakah"]], leading to confusion as to whether it's suppose to be "Breaker" or just "Break".

* Most of the characters in ''[[Rose of Versailles]] have fairly easily recognisable French names -- except for one, who is variously referred to as Gerodere, Girodelle, Girondelle, Girodel, Girodet, Giradel and Jiroderu. It's not just a fan thing, either -- most of those variants have appeared in official translations of the manga or anime.

* The names of demons/mamodo in ''[[Gash Bell]]'' is a frequent source of frustration since the creator rarely gives them straight up English names, but an especially infuriating one is the guy who hangs out with a movie director and sings a garbled "Ode to Joy", which has been rendered as Kisu, Kiees, Keith, Kiss or Kiith.

** The rare Kodansha-published English translation of the first short story spelled Kei's name as "Kay". (When Dark Horse republished this story, they ''mostly'' reused the existing English translation, but changed the spelling to the more usual one.)

* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' has Mashu/Masshu/Mash/Mathew/Matthew. ([[Geneon]] uses "Matthew", and Tokyopop uses all of them at different times.)

*** And the fact that [[Word of God|Hiro Mashima said the names were to be spelled that way in English]] doesn't stop people on this site from insisting that Juvia is really Lluvia<ref>probably because they want the "rain" pun</ref>, Gajeel is suposed to be Gazille, or Jellal's name is really Gerard. Apparently [[Fan Dumb|random online guessing is a much better source than the creator]].

*** Except for the fact this may be a case of the [[Shrug of God|creator not being sure himself]], if [[media:ft_screencap1.jpg|this]] is any indication.

* The [[Fantastic Children]] fandom is terrible about this. Even thought an English dub was officially released, no one seems to agree whether he's Sess or Sesu or Seth, or if it's Toma or Thoma or Tomas, or if you should spell it Duma or Dumas. Even Soran and Solan get interchanged sometimes too.

** There are some who think his name was supposed to be "Reborns" ({{spoiler|which matches the name of his transforming Gundam}}), which, admittedly, does make some thematic sense given the names of his fellow Innovades.

** Canada's human name is romanized as both "Matthew" and "Mathieu"; fitting, considering the strife between Anglophones and Francophones in the country.

** Possibly due to a mistake in transliteration, Hungary's human name, "Elizabeta" is widely spelled as "Elizaveta" in the fandom. Hungarian fans are not impressed.

*** And now that we've got the new chapter, we've obtained (Y)Uni as well...

** Chrome/Kuromu Dokuro. Every instance is Chrome, but her name is a [[Significant Anagram]] of Mukuro Rokudo.

* In ''[[Violinist of Hameln|The Violinist of Hamelin]]''... or is it "Hameln"? Perhaps just "Hamel"? In the anime, the fansubs can never decide. This is because in the manga, the hero ''Hamel'' is heading north to the demon capitol ''Hamelin'', in reference to the fairy tale ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin." The anime, however, left the northern capitol out almost entirely, never calling it by name. This lead the fansubbers to call Hamel "Hameln" in the subtitles because they have no idea what the title is referring to, and the main character is their best bet. The word in the title is spelled "hamerun", but the character's name is clearly pronounced "hameru" without the "n". Because of the overall musical theme with some mythology mixed in, there was a lot of theme naming, so the franchise didn't suffer much otherwise, except for a few things: Trom Bone (or is it one word, Trombone? The world may never really know, though it seems to be two officially) has a sword attack that's called the "Scissor Slash" at times and (hilariously) "Jesus Slash" at others. The [[Big Bad]] of the series suffers at times too: his Japanese name, Maou Kesutora, is a pun on "orchestra," as "maou" is the word for the ruler of the demons (essentially, Satan) and "oukesutora" is the Japanese transliteration of "orchestra." The pun is lost to the English-speaking audience, however, so which is it: Chestra or Kestra? Most people seem to agree on "Chestra," but it hops all over the place.

* In [[Soul Eater]], though it's mainly Eruka, Americanizing (or Germanizing it, if you're picky about name origins) it could make variants like Elke or Elka, both being pronounced the same way.

** There shouldn't be any problem on this one, since it's meant to be an anagram of ''kaeru'', which means frog.

* And then... there's ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'', in which everyone on the Imperial side has a German name, and the Alliance side is a kind of multicultural potluck, all rendered in katakana pronunciation. The people that made the anime version (wherein the characters' names appear onscreen when they are introduced) didn't even know where to begin with this mess, and the resulting roman spellings are often bizarre. The later DVD release features revised spellings. Add a handful of different fansub romanizations into the mix and the result is almost as complicated as the actual ''show''.

* The ''[[Planetes]]'' manga (Tokyopop) and anime (Bandai USA) have different romanization schemas for two important names: the Von Braun's experimental drive is called "Tandem Miller" engine (presumably named after its creator) in the latter, while the former calls it "[http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2009/Summer-2009/Thoughts_on_fusion.pdf Tandem-Mirror]" (on account of its design depending on mirrors). There's also the character Hakim/Hakimu (both versions used in the manga) as well as Hakeem (anime).

** The sub I watched had Tandem Mirror (which, incidentally, is correct--Tandem Miller makes no sense) and Hakim.

** He's called Bard in the [[FUNimation]] subtitles.

** One fan translation uses Baron Gelwin in one chapter and Baron Kelvin in another.

** Let's not forget Grell. Fansubbers for the anime could never decide if it was to be spelled Greil or Grell, not to mention his last name (Sutcliffe/Sultcliffe/Sultcliff/Sutcliff).

* Names in ''[[Slayers]]'' often differ among the translations of the various parts of the franchise, and among translations into different languages. Some examples:

** For places, there's Sairaag and "Sylague", and Saillune (the correct spelling) and Seyruun.

** Finally, Gorun Nova (the alternate name of the Sword of Light that Gourry wields) is occasionally referred to as "Goln Nova."

* The sequel to ''[[Chirality]]'' is titled ''Ragnarock City'', and it is spelled this way on the cover of the original version. Despite this, when Central Park Media included an about-the-author page for Satoshi Urushihara in the final volume of ''Chirality'', they spelled it '''''Laguna''' Rock City''.

** [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert]] has this case when his first and last name are called Johann and Liebheart.

* Done with the official translations of ''[[D.N.Angel]]''. What's the name of Daisuke's pet? The anime dub went with "With", but the manga translation decided on "Wiz".

** It makes sense if 'Wiz' is short for 'wizard'. But it comes off as narm.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' has a lot of names transliterated completely differently in the anime and the manga (Jose vs. Giuseppe and Hirscher vs. Hillshire, for example), and when you add in fan translations it only gets more confusing.

** Even better is the fact that Lawrence´s name has been spelled out in the anime as "Craft", on an envelope adressed at him in season 1. Where ever the licensers of both the anime and the light novels got their information from, asking the author first would have probably been a great idea.

* Layla/Reira Serizawa from ''[[Nana]]''.

** Which ought to be a no-brainer since she specifically says she's named after the Eric Clapton song (but on the other hand it's romanized Reira all over official Japanese materials).

**** It's spelled 'Heldigunner' for the 1989 model, but 'Hel Digunner' for the 1999 model.

*** Possibly the most ridiculous is 'Sabretiger' (1986) versus 'Saber Tiger' (1999), which are spelled differently in both English and katakana. And don't even get me started on Gojulas The Ogre versus Godzullas G Orga...

** "Onikakushi" (Demoned Away) is the first arc. "Onigafuchi" (Demon's Abyss) is what Hinamizawa used to be known as. As well as confusion between the two, the latter is sometimes spelled with a double C; this is wrong as it would imply a doubled consonant in pronunciation that's not there.

** Both u's in Rena Ryugu are long, so it can be written Ryuuguu. The other common variants, "Ryuguu" and "Ryuugu", are erroneous.

** Also, Chao's magic activation key is one of the few that doesn't yet have an [[Word of God|"official"]] romanization.

** There's also a bit of controversy over Gateau/Gatou/Gato's name.

** That actually makes sense - Team Rocket's names are meant to be a pun on Jesse James, the famous outlaw. Their names in Japanese are Musashi and Kojirō, referencing Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojirō, two samurai who famously fought to the death over a love rival.

** The villain from the second movie was never named in the dub (he's credited as The Collector), and has two different names (Geraldan and Lawrence III) in different promotional materials. Most fans just use a direct romanization of his Japanese name: Jirarudan.

** Ash's rival from the Indigo League Tournament, Richie or Ritchie?

** In an ironic twist, the English subtitled blu-ray discs for the Kiddy Grade compilation movies published in Japan use [[FUNimation]]'s subtitle tracks with a few corrections.. and a few new mistakes, most notably changing Donnerschlag's mame from the correct German spelling to "Donnersclag".

* Since ''[[Pilot Candidate]]'' is a series with lots of [[Aerith and Bob]] going on, this was bound to happen. The most common example: Kizna or Kizuna?

* [[Beck]]: Is it "Gordie" (a nickname for "Gordon"), or "Goldie" (a nickname based on the fact that his front teeth are all gold)?

** Wait, his full name is ''Kal''os ''Eid''os or something like that, right? Wasn't it supposed to be a pun on "Kaleido"?...

* The minor, anime-only ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' character Oota Shou is often referred to as Oota Kakeru, as this is another possible reading for the kanji in his name. The official data sheet for his school confirms the name should be read "Shou."

** ''Haruka 4'' has its share of this trope as well, this time with sanskrit. Thankfully, ''Ashuvin'' CAN be legitimately spelled two ways (the more logical "Ashvin" and the apparently chosen by KOEI "Asvin"), and the rest of the names eventually came out romanized in the visual book for the game, but before that you could get "Ashuvin" for Asvin, various disasters on ''Mudogara'' (Mudgala), etc.

* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' has San/Sun and Luna/Lunar/Runa, although official material usually goes with [[Theme Naming|Sun and Lunar]].

* ''[[Rave Master]]'' get's this full blast. It's not even an issue of fans disagreeing with the translation. ''one of the names isn't consistent''. One of the generals (Who might be named Jade) is called four diferent names throughout the official translation. Two of which occur in the same chapter, and one of ''those'' is actually the name of a diferent charcter. On a more standard note, Everyone agrees that Iulius's name is actually Julius. And, back to the less average, one of the major support characters, Sieg Hart, is called Seig about ten times when mentioned in a later manga done by the same artist.

* In ''[[Letter Bee]]'' we have Zaji/Zazie, Vashuka/Wasiolka, Gus/Gasu/Gazu, Connor Kluff/Connor Culh, Roda/Lode, Gauche/Goos, and Aria Link/Aria Rink. Oh, and the freak show in Chapter 2 has had its name romanized as Lovesome Downs, Love Someone Down, and the incredibly silly Rabusamu Wandaun

* ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' mostly isn't too bad about this, but the official English subtitles do have a few odd quirks thanks to having all names taken directly from the translation of the manga, which was done well before the anime was made and without any kind of pronunciation guide. Most notably, Jonah Matsuka's name is officially translated as "Makka," an error stemming from confusion about the use of the small "tsu" character.

* [[Last Exile]] has the name of one of the main characters variously transliterated as Lavi or Ravi.

** And that's just the beginning of it! Most of the demon's names - most of ''everyone's'' names - in the other world are derivatives of European names, or made to sound that way, making it pretty much impossible to find a consistent spelling for any of the non-Japanese characters. The discrepancy is sometimes so great that you can't recognize the name of the same character as spelled by different fansubbers.

* ''[[Getter Robo]] Āḥ'' has problems with this, due to having a Sanskrit letter in the title. The Japanese spellings 'Ark' and 'Aku' are frequently used, when the correct English form is Āḥ.

* Keel Lorenz from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' often has his name spelled as "Kihl". For some reason.

** Actually, it should be Kiel. Keel is a widely distributed misspelling which is pretty much Fanon by now.

* The official romanizations for the characters of ''[[Saint Beast]]'' didn't reach English fans for a good while, so Yuda/Judas, Ruka/Ruca/Luca, Rei/Rey, and Gou/Goh all appear in fanfic and discussions depending on the individual fan.

** Considering what seems to be the etymology ({{spoiler|Incubator}}), it should probably be {{spoiler|Cuba}}, but that spelling doesn't seem to be used a lot. Understandably.

'''Yuu''': "No, it's 'Ha''ru''ka', dumbass!" }}

* The protagonists of ''[[Afganisu-tan]]'', and the name of the manga. Fans can't decided whether it's "Afganisu-Tan" or "Afghanis-Tan".

* ''[[Gundam AGE]]'', like many a Gundam show before it has a bad case of this due to the franchise's love of bizarre, usually made up names. For instance, is the first main character's name Flit, or is he named after a brand of corn chip?

** The mass production MS based on the AGE-1 are often translated as "Adeles", though Adder makes a bit more sense considering that a) it's the name of a deadly snake, which many weapons in [[Real Life]] are named for (eg. the Colt Python and Sidewinder Missile) and b) they retain the Gundam they're based on's ability to equip various add-on parts.