No Pronunciation Guide - TV Tropes. Sure, it's easy enough to figure out how to pronounce John Smith (usually), but seeing the name Gauthenia Vrellneick is going to confuse the heck out of anyone (probably). There can be quite a bit of Fan Dumb resulting from this, often depending simply on the language construction of where fans live. Fanon has been known more than once to override the author's intended pronunciation. The opposite of Spell My Name with an . Related to The Unpronounceable, where the names are intentionally difficult (if not downright impossible) for the mere humans to pronounce. This causes a certain (very loud) segment of the fandom to completely lose their shit when it happens. The reasons for mispronunciations or mis- stressings (no, they are not the same thing) of Japanese words are myriad, ranging from the translator not giving any hints on how names are pronounced, directors not being terribly concerned about it, edits from the Japanese themselves (this one happened with Eureka Sevennote Where the title character's name is . FUNimation's pre- 2. ADV Films (especially ones directed by Stephen Foster, who has said many times he cares more about an actor's performance than their pronunciation). Outside of Texas, this phenomenon is far less common, though every studio will do it to some degree. In numerous foreign languages, it's much less common, because a word is typically pronounced exactly as it is written. This also happens a lot with English- language versions of anime. Is it Back- ooh- gan, or Bah- koo- gahn? Going by standard Japanese pronunciation rules, it's the latter, since there is no . The dub for CLANNAD has this to the point of it being a chronic disorder, as it seems that nobody can pronounce each others' names correctly. The actors do pronounce names wrong, but at least it's consistently wrong. One can argue it's far worse when some actors get it right but others don't. Also, many of the pronunciation problems were fixed in the After Story dub. The BANDAI Entertainment dub pronounces it the first way, yet there will be many many fans who lose their shit while screaming to the very ceiling about how you're wrong! By this point, it's hard to tell. This was incredibly annoying during the conversation between Shido and Ban that establishes Makubex's back story, but Ban has an unflattering nickname for just about everyone, so it might be in character for him to butcher it on purpose.. The correct pronunciation is . Realm King Fist), but nearly everyone except for Peter Kelamis's Goku in the uncut Ocean dubs of movies 2 and 3 says . King Kai must've learned it from the guy on the . The dub's influence was so pervasive that when the guy's on X- Play used the Japanese pronunciation they got letters telling them how dumb they are for not saying it the . In the American dub, her name was changed to Launch, whether it's for sake of pronounciation or because her name in katakana is written as Ranchu or because the company just didn't get that her name was also a food pun alongside Yamcha, Puar, Oolong, Vegeta, Raditz, Kakarrot, Pilaf, Garlic Jr, Mango, Papaya, etc, etc. Do not start a discussion about this! Among them: Ex Ex Ex Holic, Zholic, or Triple X Holic. Oddly, it seems the correct pronunciation is simply 'holic' as the Exes are not recognized a pronounceable characters, making them essentially meaningless. The same goes for Hunter- Hunter, Kiss- Sis, and Gun- Sword. It's pronounced . When reached for comment, Pok. Once The Pok. Oh god, Suicune. It's apparently pronounced SWEE- cune. According to one of the English voice actors (Tom Wayland), Arceus is pronounced Ark- ee- us. The character says its own name all three ways, which may have lead to the confusion. After the release of Pok. Some shifted from an Italianized pronunciation to the American one, but some of them also made the opposite. Muk changed from . The main character, Ginga(Geen- Gah) Hagane, both got his name respelled to . This gets lampshaded towards the end of Negima!? Chisame: And don't they say ? The dub had a very brief run on Cartoon Network in the USA in the so- called 6: 0. AM . In this series, the title is regularly and constantly pronounced . Either the dubbers really didn't know how to pronounce it, or felt that it wouldn't appeal as much to Americans if they used the original pronounciation. It also doesn't help that most episodes were actually two Japanese episodes combined to make one American episode. For instance in the dub, Issei's father pronounced her name as . My Goddess TV had this with a few names (most notably, the heavenly computer Yggdrasil; only the movie got the pronunciation anywhere close to right). Unlike most examples, AMG mispronounced more names as the show went on. Yggdrasil is hard to pronounce anyway (the correct pronunciation is something like . In the first episode, everyone mispronounces Ogiue's name (as . It's pretty obvious that the director realized his mistake halfway through recording and couldn't go back and fix the earlier screw- ups. Apparently, Yuki just mispronounce his name as . Unlike English, Japanese has no distinction between L and R, so . They tried to get the dubbing team to use this (wrong) pronunciation too but the dub studio, having common sense, refused.
There are a few fans who will mispronounce the name to this day, even after being corrected by the actor who played the character. Is Walter's last name ? Another called him Shinichi. Shinichi appears to be the correct one, but for fans who started out reading the scans chronicling the adventures of Shinji, it's just a bit strange to adjust to. Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (Red) ! It started simply - a virus tougher than the rest. Nothing the team can. Vivio, Eyes Better Than Everybody Else VS/W50-035 RR. Takahiro Sakurai (. He was a member of 81 Produce and since July. Apparently, none of the voice actors were aware that Arisu was the Japanese spelling and pronunciation for . Whereas the former is the correct pronunciation (if the Japanese version is to be believed), the latter is used in the Bang Zoom dub. It gets really egregious when you realize that they actually said . There's also Simon. The original opts for . And, to the eternal frustration of fans, non- fans refer to him as . Based on the Japanese pronunciation of her name, . The English dubs, however, refer to her as . While it may aggravate certain fans, there do exist several words beginning with . These are often pronounced inconsistently by the voice actors. Ignoring some random name changes, Japanese names are always pronounced in the most Americanized way possible. For example, . It was confirmed not to have an A in it with the episode title Beelzemon's Big Day, but both pronunciations were still used, depending on the speaker. Similarly, is Patamon's Champion form Angemon pronounced ? Vanguard on the You. Tube channel has the announcer pronounce Aichi's name as 'Eye- ich- ee' instead of 'eye- chi'. This also happens in the adverts for the first Trial Decks and Booster packs. The Hungarian dub of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood had trouble with the names Xing, Sheska, Barry, and Slicer. Xing started out as . Incidentally, the voice actor who first made this blunder was also the only VA in Naruto who kept pronouncing jutsu as . The dubbing of the first series wasn't without its faults either: Roy Mustang's actor at first mispronounced Hawkeye as . While the Prince may pronounce Choi as Cho'i, the market community call her anywhere between Cho'i to Choy. Before receiving the proper romanization of the name from Tite Kubo (and still afterwards, sometimes), he was called Juhabach or Yuhabaha. Going by the romanization and the original Japanese, the pronunciation would seem to be something like /jhvax/, but of course, that's still unpronounceable in English. But you can't go wrong adding vowels: try . Yuu: No, it's 'Haruka', dumbass! Some translations spell her name as . Some actors even pronounce it in different ways during different times. The most common ones both have the Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable as either . The Italian dub mentions him by his full name in episode three, and they pronounce it as . On the other hand while Keiko'snote spelled as . Michel is properly pronounced . In the Italian dub, her name is pronounced like this too.. In some scenes (usually by Shinji's VA), it's bizarrely pronounced as . A good way to piss off fans is to pronounce her name in a manner similar to Ahsoka. Bang Zoom Entertainment! It's actually pronounced . The first is . The second is . The third is . The correct way to say it is . Charles Xavier. In English, the name . There is a large contingent of fans who pronounce it as . Lampshaded in an issue of Ultimate X- Men, where a foreman overseeing repairs on the mansion asks Xavier how to pronounce his name. Xavier doesn't actually answer the question. However, Paul Mc. Cartney pronounced it with a long . Properly spelled . The correct pronunciationnote . The A is pronounced like the A in . The ' symbol (called hamza) separating the A and the S is a simple glottal stop/click (it's normally used to separate two vocals, like the N in . This sound is dropped in dialects using the long A in . Also, some dialects may pronounce the A in . Cue more internet arguing. There's also the fact that he's centuries old, and it's quite possible that there's been some degree of pronounciation shift that he's ignored. Oddly enough, this one actually has two names, as there was a spelling error that was retconned into a separate entity - originally, his name was Mxyztplk. After Clark fails to pronounce it correctly, Mxy turns into a blender (to . Delivered by Mxy when Superman complains. There his name was pronounced . Tomboy Book Dumb Kei comments . While Yuri insists on using a hard . Correct Polish pronunciation would be . All three can be heard from various speakers in the movie. Her sci- fi counterpart in Space Usagi was spelled Tomoeh, to help avert this. The same is true for Tomoe in Rurouni Kenshin.. The voice actors in ADV's dub of the OVA pronounced it . The same problem came up again in the Cloverway dub of Sailor Moon S, where it was decided Tomoe Hotaru would keep her Japanese name. Unfortunately, they used the . Takahiro Sakurai - Wikipedia. Takahiro Sakurai(. He was a member of 8. Produce and since July 2. INTENTION, the management company established by Kenichi Suzumura, one of his good friends; his height is 1. Many of his roles are handsome (and mostly charming) men. However, he has also voiced reluctant heroes (such as Mega Man X) as well as the occasional villain (Maximilien Robespierre in Le Chevalier D'Eon, Hiltz in Zoids: Guardian Force and Sasori in Naruto Shipp. Sometimes, he is also typecast to play angsty and arrogant young men (such as his famous rendition of Cloud Strife in Compilation of Final Fantasy VII). He starred in the gag anime Osomatsu- san as the titular character of Osomatsu. 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