Talk:Tohoku Zunko/@comment-38511273-20190221064624/@comment-53539-20190221212519

The Japanese generally don't write out words in Latin text always as you expect them to be. The Japanese is merely conveying the pronunciation in Japanese, but when it comes to things they don't write in Japanese they are not experts. Non-foreign words in Japanese products exist for the sake of marketing abroad afterall. So they either pick something they think we can say, or pick something that sounds good/catchy or pick something and don't realise its wrong. Either way, we use whatever they tell us its suppose to be.

You should see the issues we had with Mihawk's name in the One Piece fandom.

This isn't our only case either just within Vocaloid. Technically Ryuto is "Ryuuto" with the "u" either doubled up or accented. However, the Japanese write it as "Ryuto" so we copy it. There is also "Gackpo", which most mistaking write as "Gakupo".