Talk:Camui Gackpo/@comment-38313055-20190501022720/@comment-53539-20190502082051

That was me, the issue is well... Until V3 we didn't have an official spelling.

I guessed myself that "Gakupo" was incorrect as "Gackt", his provider's name, pretty much told us its not "Gakuto". Nor does he like to be called that in real life either, he usually corrects people from what I've seen to "Gackt".

The correction did not happen until October 2013, and "Gakupo" just became too common.

It was a fault mostly of veteran fans in Japan and the west. I don't expect Japanese fans to be perfect and they weren't, they wrote the name how Japanese write it in Latin text. However, western fans in 2007-2010 were... Especially difficult. They didn't read, were easily influenced by a handful of fans who appeared to "know it all". The latter of which... Well, I've written a lot of text about.

Telling someone who is the biggest influence at VO forums Leon and Lola were soul singers only to find they had never read the box... Was kind bad. Especially when you know our reason for the blond Leon is that person and that means instantly you know they... Didn't do any research. And they were telling people things like Luka V2 Japanese did better English then the English voicebank. It was just what that era was like, a lot of people not really coming to their own conclusions and just nodding at the 1 person who appeared to... Even when their wrong. If I hadn't pointed out that VY1 was made to be able to fulfil any role and was not expected to be used entirely for female roles, being genderless because of the lack of an avatar, we'd have glossed over that.

It may seem longwinded, but thats the overaching reason why "Gakupo" existed and continues to exist. They translated it as basic Japanese, didn't expect it to be anything but and never questioned it because the veterans and know-it-alls were already using it. I'd just spent 8 years myself dealing with a translator called "Greg" who spent his entire time putting down the One Piece wiki, as it was "bad" and often citing his own translations as though they were flawless. And reporting us and wikipedia when we had independent translations of a similar result because no one was allowed to "steal" his translations. I'm afraid my willingness to fight over Gakupo's translated name in 2010... Had been killed by the likes of "Oars", "Thriller Bark" and "Dracule Mihawk".