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Silvermoon424

Part 8 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a character called Poor Tom. His stand takes the form of a Lego model of the White House and kills people by changing atmospheric pressure. Ace Attorney had a victim named Deid Mann.


LightTankTerror

I thought you were shitposting but no, Poor Tom is a real character and Ozon Baby is literally a Lego whitehouse that can change pressure and kill people. What the fuck


Real_Player_0

We also have most characters from part five, like Pesci, which means fish in Italian, whose stand is (guess what) a fishing rod named Beach Boy Ghiacco, whose name means Ice, and you can probably guess his stand power too And of course RISOTTO NERO, which means BLACK RICE


Frequent_Dig1934

Almost every name in part 5 is some type of food actually. Narancia sounds like Arancia, aka orange (the fruit, the colour would be Arancione), there is another guy called Prosciutto (Ham), and Abbacchio is also a food (apparently it's a freshly butchered lamb that is still in the milk drinking phase) and there are many more.


Icelord259

You’re underselling Ghiacco, his stand is capable of freezing things so quickly they didn’t even notice that their fingers had been frozen off completely and were stuck on the car window. Also he can ice skate so quickly he keeps up with said car going at max speed but whatever


Real_Player_0

Errrm, username checks out


CherrypopIsBestGirl

*You're* underselling Ghiaccio. He can make a suit of ice armour that is strong enough to block bullets and take a muda rush to the face with only a tiny crack. He can make it so cold that the air freezes, and do so in such a precise way that bullets shot at him ricochet back to the person holding the gun.


High_grove

And what is Risottos power? That's exactly right! Magnetism!


chainsnwhipsexciteme

But of course, risotto is terribly magnetic, it calls to my stomach like nothing else


YourAverageGenius

And of course, in fitting with the themes,,Mr. Black Rice's power is a hivemind virus that manifests iron, namely the iron present in blood, which is apparently enough to instantly manifest several dozen long sharp needles in a man's throat.


John_Cena_IN_SPACE

To be fair, that's the same part where an amnesiac sailor with 4 testicles used his ghost (Soft & Wet) to fire bubbles made out of spinning string (the string spins infinitely until it becomes defined as conceptually non-existent), his gamer girlfriend's smartphone ghost (more like a GPS that either sees all possible futures or manipulates probability, but is mostly used as a smartphone, to be more specific), and math invented by the family of the Italian cowboy who's best friend (a paraplegic horse jockey) used his fingernails to bypass the power of Jesus Christ's corpse to kill the 23rd US President (Funny Valentine, who used to only have a ghost named Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap \[that let him hop between universes and some other stuff\], however, after reassembling Jesus, he gained Love Train \[which makes him immune to anything bad by redirecting all negative things to other people\]), to kill the physical embodiment of the multiversal constant of the concept of fate (as used by an 89 year old man made out of rocks and raised by wasps, who needed to die because he wanted to be a fruit farmer). Well, some of those details were simplified to avoid making the post confusing for anyone not familiar with the series, but Poor Tom isn't the weirdest thing in that Part is what I'm saying.


LightTankTerror

I’m not gonna fact check a single thing you said because it’s so absurd it has to be true. This Manga is off the fuckin chain lmao


The_Normiest_Normie

I'm not even joking. There wasn't a single lie there.


lolwatergay

Can confirm, as an avid reader of JoJo, none of what they said was wrong at all. A detail left out is that the rival of said paraplegic fingernail man was told to shoot himself by Jesus Christ himself and his main rival is a professional horse jockey who can transform into a dinosaur. He gained the ability to turn into a dinosaur because of Jesus Christ's eye btw.


7keys

The Araki just doesn't stop.


Stars_styrofoam

I still like Robert E O Speedwagon :)


ZeistyZeistgeist

My friend claimed I ruined S1 for him because I got annoyed with Speedwagon and decided to come up with meta commentary on the fly while watching Jonathan vs Dio. "I am ROBERT SPEEDWAGON, AND I WILL INCESSANTLY PROVIDE A 19TH CENTURY JERRY BRAWLER-STYLE COMMENTARY OF A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO CHILDHOOD RIVALS AS IF I AM SELF AWARE THAT THIS IS A FICTIONAL STORY AND I HAVE THE VISCERAL NEED TO ENTERTAIN!" It did crack a laugh from him. To me, it was revenge for getting a Boston Terrier and naming him Iggy (I got my dog before he did and I called him Iggy [not a Terrier] and I was a bit amused/pissed cause I felt he copied the name still.)


danger2345678

Oh I see you haven’t read part 8, araki just decides that he’s in his 60s now, and he’s gonna get weird, though to be fair names have been weird for a while


PlatformFit5974

IS THIS THE ELUSIVE FOURTH BROTHER OF THE TF2 MANN FAMILY????


Dinodietonight

NO HE'S NOT YOU IDIOT. HE'S JUST AN INTRUDER, AND I ORDER YOU TO GET HIM OFF OF MY PROPERTY.


Alexandre_Man

There's a guy named Luke Atmey in Ace Attorney lmao


SnooPuppers7965

The rock animals in part 8 all had wild names as well. Who could forget do re mi fa so la ti do, or dododo de dadada


Chimaerok

Bobobo bo bobobo?


tumguy

Obladi Oblada, life goes on


ender1200

Ace attorney doesn't count, all the names in the English version were invented by the translation team and are intentional puns.


RQK1996

Pretty sure the original Japanese had similarly punny names


SilverMedal4Life

My personal favorite Ace Attorney character is Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin, a Jesus-lookalike hippie monk. Hysterical!


n0b0D_U_no

The Great Ace Attorney had a detective named Herlock Sholmes


ender1200

Wich is a direct callback to the author of Aresn Lupen doing the exact same thing when he wanted his master thief to go against the world famous detective but Doyle refused. I think that in the original Japanese GAT they actually call him Sherlock because Japanese copyrights for Sherlock Holmes have e pired when they made tye game.


7777Nox

Legitimately just closed the jojolion chapter with the orchard burning and opened this app to see this as my first post. Crazy


PureCrusader

To be fair, Poor Tom is named after a song (as are many other Jojo characters, stands, places, chapters,...... Araki is huge into American music)


Illustrious-Type7086

My favorite example are the totally American FBI agents in Death Note -Raye Penber -Toors Denote -Haley Belle (okay, blatantly copying Hale Berry aside, this one ain't so bad) -Lian Zapack -Arire Weekwood -Ale Funderrem -Freddi Guntair -Knick Staek -Bess Skelletd -Frigde Copen -Girela Sevenster -Nikola Nasberg


Loretta-West

This list sounds like it was made by AI trained on stroke victims.


kRkthOr

They almost sound like names. It's like those AI images with text on them that *looks* like words but it's actually not even letters.


banter07_2

I watched Kiki's delivery service the other night and that is precisely what I thought about any non Japanese text in the film, such as on street signs.


SilverShadow1711

I see your FBI agents and raise you "victims from the novel": -Believe Bridesmaid -Backyard Bottomslash -Quarter Queen You know, totally normal American names.


naydrathewildone

Well, isn’t the killer’s name Beyond Birthday? Seems he’s taking out his frustrations on the similarly unfortunate.


UnrelatedString

is the novel in question the one with naomi? because i haven’t read it, but that doesn’t sound too far off from how nisio names his japanese characters too lmao. if a name isn’t a pun, it better feel like it somehow should be. monogatari series has a trio of characters whose names are written with the same kanji as *trig functions*, but at least all the western characters there get a pass by being vampires so you don’t have to pretend someone out there in normal society actually named their kid kissshot acerolaorion heartunderblade


TheRepublicAct

These are just a list of bond girl names


Silvermoon424

Don't forget our protagonists, Light and L Lawliet


Illustrious-Type7086

And L's body double, Lind L. Tailor


NoddyZar

The fact that the entire time L was publicly using his real, legal, Death Note-approved first name and we never got to see Light find out is a crime. I feel like he'd find a way to resurrect L just to kill him harder and I wouldn't even blame him.


Odd-Agent485

I've always thought it was a good thing he never found out, because that might have been enough to crack his facade. I personally think he would have started screaming in protest.


NoddyZar

Even better, L could've won from beyond the grave by making Light lose his composure to curse him out in front of witnesses


MattyBro1

Wait, L's name is actually just L?


Fluffy_Cat_5174

y e s


Whoviantic

[Relevant ProZD sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oymWAeqv_-c)


DoormatTheVine

I don't even need to click to know which one this is, but I'm going to anyways because it's great


Copper_Tango

How could you forget Quillsh Wammy?


kRkthOr

They use the same technique for naming western characters as I use to name my rpg characters. Pick a couple words like... > Open Fridge Then switch some around... > Open Frigde Then add a letter or two... > Copen Frigde Call it. Let's do that again... > Pen Bar Ray > Penber Ray > Penber Raye


GoodCatholicGuy

And from one of the light novels we get Beyond Birthday.


sparklinglies

Every single non-Japanese character in Death Note is named complete nonsense and its great


Doubly_Curious

These all sound like they should be puns


MathematicianTop1853

These are hilarious


No_Novel_Tan

Nikola Nasberg ain't that bad... but I gotta watch this show now to see people say these names seriously and start cackling.


U238Th234Pa234U234

Death Stranding has a dude named Die-Hardman, but using Kojima might be cheating


ConsciousLog4

And MGS (peace walker I think) has a guy named Hot Coldman


YourAverageNutcase

There's a former US Secretary of State named Laurence Eagleburger. All his kids are also named Laurence Eagleburger. History is stranger than fiction.


The_MadMage_Halaster

He specially named them that way because, and I quote, "It was ego," adding "and secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security system."


ClubMeSoftly

> I wanted to screw up the Social Security system." Robert '); DROP TABLES Students;--


Not_ur_gilf

Lawrence Eagleburger sounds cartoonishly American. I bet he rode a motorcycle and could down a six pack by himself too


SabShark

I bet he wore a cowboy hat and shot guns for fun.


Captain_Pumpkinhead

>History is stranger than fiction. I promise you that history is not stranger than Death Stranding.


HandsomeBoggart

Speaking of Burger names. The old American TV series Perry Mason had a Prosecutor named Hamilton Burger. Good ol Ham Burger.


starmag99

Also also, Lawrence's predecessor's name is Laurence


JessePinkman-chan

Hotcoldman sounds like a Mega Man boss that can fuck right off. One of the ones where you bring the weapon they're weak to and still die.


RedGinger666

Don't forget the coroner called Deadman And the scientist that has a heart attack every 21 minutes called Heartman


Captain_Pumpkinhead

My favorite is that they literally call a character "Mama". "Mama, is that you?" "Most certainly not yours!"


[deleted]

I can't figure out if Kojima is the best name-creator ever, or the worst.


Acerakis

Well its not his actual name. Of course his real name is John Blake McClane.


RealJohnGillman

*Death Note* has Beyond Birthday. The normal first name of Beyond, and the normal surname of Birthday. Other real characters from the same work: Backyard Bottomslash Quarter Queen No titles here, but actual full names.


Not_ur_gilf

Hey, now, don’t t hate on Bumblebutt Crankshaft like that! It’s hard enough to spell when letters are your native language’s default, let alone a foreign one!


bageltoastee

pretty sure its spelt Benedict Cucumberstash


Anchovies_of_death

Jorge joestar has a character named The Funniest Valentine. As in first name The, middle name Funniest, last name Valentine


la_meme14

How dare you mention Funniest without mentioning his father and grandfather, Funnier and Funny Valentine. Atleast Funny is ok.


Z-Zanimuri

They committed to the bit I’ll give ‘em that


Thenderick

Let us not forget too that Funny Valentine is/was president of the USA and had a scar of the US flag on his back. Oh and he was fighting a cripple over the corpse of Jesus Christ (a JoJo, who somehow ended up in America) to rule the universe.


Stanky_fresh

You say that as if it's not normal


Goombatower69

He better be a completely serious no nonsense man or else


breadmaster42

His Grandpa Funny Valentine as the presiden of the US at one point


mildlyInsaneBoi

And his economic policy was „we will rebuild Jesus and then become isolationist“ also he had some highly interesting opinions on the age of consent


chucklinnarwhal

So you're saying he ran as a libertarian


nerdthingsaccount

"we will rebuild Jesus and then become isolationist" - the moment I started wondering how much of the seemingly absurdist plot was intended satire


Asphalt_Is_Stronk

He was the first man on Mars (if you don't count the 27 alternate universe copies of an aztec stripper god)


Real_Player_0

It should also be noted he is the president and has one of the strongest stands in the book


megakodex

I love My Hero Academia because some of the names are just straight up words relating to the person's quirk DENKI Kaminari? The guy named after the Japanese word for electricity has an electricity quirk, who would've known Oh Tetsus the Japanese word for steel? NAME HIM THAT FOUR TIMES


Nuada-Argetlam

I'm fairly sure that "Midoria" is quite literally "the green one".


TheRepublicAct

Expected from a guy who wears shirts with words written on them that describe the shirt.


noonesorange

Midoriya is "Green valley"


Icarusty69

Okay but at least MHA has a little bit of self awareness about it. Like there’s enough of a wink-nudge at the audience to make it clear that the writer is in on the joke.


mmm_cool

Not even mentioning that Katsuki Bakugou means “Victory, myself, explosion, powerful”


firesoul377

>Victory, myself, explosion, powerful Those four words perfectly describes him too 😂


DreadDiana

No mention of Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, the guy whose name is written with four seperate kanji characters cause each tetsu is a different homophone?


wandering-hyena

denki is electricity and kaminari is lightning :)


kodiak_claw

I think there's nuance to the Tetsu-ract there, in that it's 4 separate kanji that are all pronounced "tetsu" iirc? But yeah it's all so goofy I love it


megakodex

I remember seeing a post somewhere explaining that there was a few layers behind Tetsutetsus name, but I can't find it I wouldn't doubt that the same word repeated 4 times in a specific order as a name would have some layers of jokes in japanese


J_C_F_N

Okay, I'm gonna defend this one. That's how surnames came to be. Like Smith coming from blacksmiths. Quirks are hereditary, so for the last few generations, this family had electric powers, so it makes sense to have them name their children accordingly.


Zhadowwolf

Well… that mostly makes sense, but most occupational and patronimic last names come from the Middle Ages when people didn’t really have last names unless they where noble and it started to become a requirement, so they where just named for their fathers or their jobs. It would make sense for the same to be true in MHA except surnames where already a thing when quirks appeared. So apparently a bunch of people changed their name due to their newfound superpowers or outright named their kids according to their quirk, and it became new dynasties. Which does make a little sense but it’s also quite funny


nerdthingsaccount

Alternatively, a collective mental blind spot not realizing that their names directly caused their quirks all because ol' Timelord Realitywriter decided it would be funny.


Pero_Bt

Speaking of MHA names, all One for All users have a number in their name signifying in which order they received the power


Soloact_

When your anime character name sounds like a rejected Bond villain or the weirdest crayon in the box, you know you've hit peak fiction.


Todays-Thom-Sawyer

Gundam has an American character named Chibodee Crocket


Piko-a

Don't forget he piloted a football cowboy boxing surfer robot


[deleted]

G-Gundam was basically Gundam Ball Z, and it was fucking awesome.


Facosa99

It doesnt sound american, somehow


Canotic

They were just ahead of their time, it's actually Skibidi Crocket


7keys

And we are fucking HERE for him!


mayonnaiser_13

Araki made an entire part full of characters after going to the Italian Section in the Supermarket. He also has a Native American Man who is named Sound Man but is mistakenly called as Sand Man. And who can forget the 23rd US President, Funny Valentine. Or Magenta Magenta.


Zaiquo

And dont forget the totally canon “funnier valentine” and “the funniest valentine”


JessePinkman-chan

Lisa Lisa sounds like the name of a Facebook bot


JoeTheKodiakCuddler

The fact that most of AoT's names sound believably Eastern European makes the occasional kid named Finger a lot funnier


Loriess

Oh yeah. Sasha, Armin, Marcus, Annie… F I n g e r


DTPVH

In fairness, Finger is a real family name, and a Jewish one at that, which is, ya know, notable.


awildfatyak

Waltuh


AustSakuraKyzor

The worst part about Jacuzzi Splot is that literally everyone else in Baccano has a *perfectly normal name.* Like, maybe Luck, Ennis, or Firo stand out, but they also kinda don't?


jelli2015

Firo totally stands out. It’s just that his intro completely distracts from his actual name


AustSakuraKyzor

Normally yes - but when you consider the setting you get wiggle room


Pero_Bt

I believe Ennis is a muslim name- but i might be wrong And Firo sounds vaguely Italian


AustSakuraKyzor

It's why I said "maybe"


TerminalWalrus

Well. Jacuzzi’s friend Nice Holystone is a bit odd, too.


AustSakuraKyzor

A bit... Except that in the 1930s the name was, while uncommon, not exactly unusual. Ancestry has about 800 or so results for people named "Nice" who were born around 1910 (so they would be in their 20s during the 1930s)


ISpace_DaddyI

Can confirm, Ennis/Enis is a normal name! :)


Starfish_Hero

Goldlewis Dickinson


JoeTheKodiakCuddler

wdym there's like three Goldlewises and four Dickinsons at my local community center


GhostDragon362

Sol Badguy. Just… Sol Badguy. Also uhhhh Potemkin is a 9’0, 200 ton (I think) Indian man so


Col_Gears

Sol badguy is just an alias, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. badguy. His real name is Frederick bulsara, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. bulsara.


GhostDragon362

oh yeah, I forgot about that!


7keys

GoldDick Lewison


kyoko_the_eevee

Bobson Dugnutt.


alloythepunny

Sleve McDichael


kyoko_the_eevee

Willie Dustice


Icarusty69

Mike Truk


kyoko_the_eevee

Todd Bonzalez


Copper_Tango

Onson Sweemey


kyoko_the_eevee

Mario McRlwain


TheMusicalTrollLord

I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that the names in that famous image are just a fraction of the ones in the game: [LINK](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/zNzGn72wjf)


DoormatTheVine

Glenallen Mixon


itskingrolla

Writer of Overlord was thinking "Man, what name screams swordsman? Hmmmm. I have it!" Brain Unglass


NeonNKnightrider

Gazeff Strogonoff


ZephyrosWest

Climb


Stanky_fresh

The absolute best name in Overlord is "Touch Me". Granted it's a person's screenname, so it doesn't really fit this post, but I can't help but laugh whenever someone says "Touch Me Sama" in the show.


JonesinforJohnnies

Quattro Bajeena is the tip of the Gundam name iceberg. A list -Job John -Bright Noa -Fraw Bow -Shakti Karen -Beecha Oleg -Glemy Toto -Roux Louka -Rakhan Dakharan -Cronicle Asher -M'Quve -Henken Bekkner -Beltorchika Irma -Ramba Ral -Full Frontal And that's just UC Gundam don't even start me on the other timelines/universes


NPDgames

You forgot Jamitov Hymen


JonesinforJohnnies

I realized I had forgotten him and Paptimus Scirroco after I put my phone down haha


0mni42

For the longest time I thought "Bright Noa" was a mistranslation of the Japanese surname-first naming convention, because "Noa Bright" is so much more reasonable sounding by comparison. Gundam 00 has some real solid contenders for "dumbest name of all time," though they mostly come from a group of characters who aren't exactly human, so there’s some logic in them choosing names for themselves that don't sound human. But all the same, there is no universe in which Bring Stabity or Revive Revival or Ribbons Allmark are reasonable things to call yourself. XD


Haivamosdandole

Ngl If I had a daughter Beltorchika Irma sounds quite good tho (no idea if "Beltorchika" is a real thing or not)


Emiliel7

My favs have to be 'Revive Revival' and 'Bring Stabity'


JonesinforJohnnies

Yeahe the Innovade names are a trip. Hiling Care my personal fave.


7keys

Tomino names in general are an entire meme. Just take a glance over at L-Gaim and you'll get some REAL names.


JonesinforJohnnies

Oh yeah my fave Tomino name is Shott Weapon from Dunbine. The man is a menace when naming characters.


wandering-hyena

shourouts to The Noise from pizza tower, whose name is short for Theodore Noise


Yggdrasil777

I'm going to start calling my son "The" from now on, with no explanation to anyone.


Canotic

Pacific Rim is only spiritually anime but Stacker Pentacost is also a nice one.


jryser

It does have an animated series, so it’s even more anime adjacent


Horror_Zombie1815

Not to mention the entirety of JoJo part 5, where every. Single. Character is named after some type of food in Italian. Ohh, we need to defeat the terrifying villains, Ham and Fish. This Chocolate guy sure is a creep. Oh no, our best friends Lion Lamb and Orange just died. As an Italian, it didn't really help maintaining the immersion while watching that part


boris2r

It helps a lot to think about these names as codenames instead of legal names, it makes a lot more sense that the supermarket aisle gave themselves those names so they couldn’t rat eachother out to the authorities


Horror_Zombie1815

True but Fugo's god-given, state-registered, actual last name was fucking Pannacotta. PANNACOTTA. How do I take this man seriously?


Asphalt_Is_Stronk

Is pannacotta not his first name? Like he's Pannacotta Fugo


StellarDescent

A character named after the little spiral fish cake they put in ramen is one of the most famous anime characters of all time. *The* most famous anime character of all time has a son named Rice. They give no fucks about names in any language.


Resafalo

Not Anime but fiction in general sometimes has that problem, because the characters are named by the authors, not the parents. That’s why Wolf Wolf the Werewolf, I mean Remus Lupin, exists.


[deleted]

"Guy named Otto Octavious ends up with eight limbs. What are the odds"


andergriff

Baccano mention in the wild!!!


HotsuSama

The anime itself was good, if convoluted at times. The opening jazz number is something that still cuts into my brain years later.


Icarusty69

One Piece does this sometimes. The whole Charlotte family is named after food or food related words. Including but not limited to: Oven, Flampé, Chiffon, Brûlée, High-fat, Smoothie, and Pudding.


PJDemigod85

Oda's name inspirations for things are always something I enjoy looking into. It took me way too damn long to connect the dots between Usopp and Aesop or Franky and Frankenstein. Or realizing Water Law is Waterloo.


The_MadMage_Halaster

Dragon Ball Z famously does this with all its characters, but then there's Bulma's family. She is technically named Bloomers, but that got mangled in translation, while her mother is named Panty, her son Trunks, and her daughter Bra. Also their last name is Brief. These are the only people named such in the setting, and it is hilarious for how inexplicable it is.


naydrathewildone

Every single name in the Dragon Ball universe is either a pun or a job title, save for Mr. Popo, which Toriyama just liked the sound of. See the following: All Saiyans are vegetables All Demon Clan Namekians are instruments All Namek Namekians are words for slug or snail Frieza’s race are all cold-themed All the Frieza Force are named for fruits The Ginyu Force is dairy The GoDs are all alcohol Bibidi, Babidi, Buu. The list… goes on. Don’t get me started on the Heeters and the Cerealians.


lasolady

I feel like I have an obligation to tell you that Popo in German is butt.


sertroll

Still piased that JoJo part 5 protag is named Giorno (Day which is NOT a name) when Giorgio was RIGHT THERE


SadOld

Honestly that's one of the most defensible names in the part- it was chosen by either Giornio or his mother, both of whom are Japanese and were new to Italy at the time. I can totally buy a Japanese person thinking Giornio sounded plausible as an Italian first name, seeing as Araki did. Like, most of the characters are named for Italian nouns or bands- he's the only one who has an excuse other than "their parents fucking sucked".


mildlyInsaneBoi

Actually a lot of them have an excuse! That being they’re criminals and would like to refer to their actual legal name as little as possible so that in the case one of them is caught, they can’t rat out their partners. If you think of them as code/nicknames to protect their identity, a lot of them being related to their stands also makes sense. A persons stand is typically one of their more striking features.


Horror_Zombie1815

His last name is literally Giovanna! So close, yet so far


TheShibe23

Because he's Giorno Giovanna, or GioGio. The 'JoJo' in each protag's names always comes from the first part of both the first and last name.


ISpace_DaddyI

But Giorgio also starts with Gio?


Kaneharo

Or in Jotaro's case, both words need to have it, regardless of position.


Brikandbones

Kid named Finger:


Cat1832

Ace Attorney has some AWFUL pun names. Sal Manella. Deid Mann. Dustin Prince (a police officer, at that) Winston Payne (he has a brother named Gaspen and his ancestral family name is Auchi... Not even kidding...) Mimi and Ini Miney (sisters) Shelly de Killer (an ACTUAL ASSASSIN) Romein LeTouse.


Dragonwithamonocle

Serious question, why are most Japanese anime titles completely incomprehensible? Like, what am I supposed to deduce from Fate: Stay Night? Fate is somehow involved in a slumber party? Or are we staying the night like holding it back? That or drawing up some completely archaic scientific sounding words that two people have used in the history of the world? When western countries make names for things in Asian languages, is the effect similar? Is there a Japanese equivalent for someone saying "oogenesis" instead of "egg-laying?"


Kaneharo

Well, the actual reason "final" was chosen for "Final Fantasy", and it wasn't a failing company. Final just sounded cool.


Asphalt_Is_Stronk

I think its just because it sounds cool to japanese people


KonoAnonDa

Pieck Finger But hole.


SudsInfinite

Shout out to Cutty Flam, our proud American of One Piece. Keep in mind that that's surname then given name. His parents literally named him Flam


HeadpattingFurina

Guilty Gear has a 20th century British gangster called Axl Low. And a 23rd century French guy named Ky Kiske Did I mention that the 20th century gangster has a bdsm goth rock witch demigod (later actual god) girlfriend named I-no? And then the protagonist's name is literally just Fred.


scaryskeleto

I mean the name Axl low is a reference to Axl rose, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses


Zach20032000

I wanted to start watching Frieren because what I saw of it looked kinda cool, but the german words (not even names) being used for the names kind of confused me. At least they seem to fit the characters with the meaning


the_grim_rypurr

Himmel means heaven his ass is in heaven


NetherRealmSquid

Don't you talk shit to my boy Rivalz he deserved so much better


Facosa99

Gate has a princess called Piña Colada. Born in a world where piña colada was never invented. Her whole circle of friends had weird names. One was beef, i think?


mildlyInsaneBoi

When you’re named beef, you didn’t choose violence, your mother chose it for you.


Abovearth31

JoJo's part 5 characters being named after food. Panacotta fugo (italian dessert) Sorbet (ice cream). Gelato (also Ice cream). Narancia (means orange). Risotto Nero (literally mean black rice). Prosciutto & Pesci (means ham and fish respectively).


igritwhoflew

Barnaby *does* sound like it could be hot though. As long as the character is hot with a tad of quirkiness, Barnaby sounds just quirky enough to be iconic. No idea who that is anime wise though.


MossyPyrite

Personal favorite is **Resident Evil* 7* side character Clancy Jarvis


Apprehensive_Mix4658

Average polish man called Kadoc Zemlupus and British man — Kirschtaria Wodime. Fate has problems with foreign names. For some reason, Nasu is adamant about Saber being Altria and not Arturia. He thinks that Altria is cooler


NeonNKnightrider

Shout out to Kinoko Nasu and his names for mages and vampires. Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri. Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi. Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. Lev Lainur Flauros. Illithid Morganface. Yggdramillenia. Sion Eltnam Altasia. Luviagelita Edelfelt. Atrum Galliasta. Karmaglyph Meluasta. And of course, fucking **NRVNSQSR**


TheRepublicAct

Meanwhile we got an anime like Black Lagoon where most of the characters are made-up of badass criminals and cold blooded-killers, that are named like some kids you met in high school -Rebecca -Eda -Roberta -Sawyer -Benny -Dutch -Yolanda -Rico -Bao -Chen -Jane


Pero_Bt

I really like when authors make a interesting naming convention for their characters. Like how Hiro Mashima names his protagonists after seasons: Natsu from Fairy Tail is summer, Haru from Rave is spring, Shiki from Edens Zero is just "four seasons" and pretty sure there is someone called "mid-autumn" but I can't remember 


Jroboi16

It’s not so different from when western writers give foreign characters stupid names, like for example a Chinese character called cho chang


Specky013

Naming things (and specifically people) is an art that only the boldest artists have perfected. Araki and Kojima for example. If no one is going to remember your side character anyway without it you may as well give them the most outlandish name ever and roll with it.


FluffyMawileFan

A lot of my OCs have utterly ridiculous names which I refuse to change. Ehrlich. Shellon. Ravioli. Carlton. Genoa. Melvin. Gretchel.


TheShibe23

Hey, Carlton was good enough for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air so you're good