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TP - Meteaura
Roman - Meteola
Kana - Meteoora
Jin's thoughts - First I tried to remember his/her name (*went for Meteura*) >_> But it was even worse than that! HOW did TP get MeteAURA from MeteOORA? ... Ok, so in English I guess (and I guess people, Karill I need you), "oora" must sound close to aura... but... blargh. *sigh* Standard long "o" and "r or l" issue, nothing special. *takes up an ice pick and goes to hack on TP*

TP - Tintlet
Roman - Tintoretto
Kana - Tintoretto
Jin's thoughts - XDD Who in here knew that there was a Italain High Renaissance painter who called HIMself Tintoretto? True, the o on the end makes it sound Italian... and male (ex: Raphaello). ^^;; But if you go by sound (all "r" turning "l") then it's just what TP uses... Tintlet. XD And if you wanna go back onto languages... Tintlette! Now it sounds like a French female name. ^^

TP - Ringleys
Roman - Ringlease
Kana - Ringuriisu
Jin's thoughts - XD Anyone reminded of the word "release"? Hee hee. ^^ Nothing special, sound works with both spellings.

TP - Nohiro
Roman - Nohiro
Kanji - Spacious field/plains
Jin's thoughts - ^^ Nohiro was actually meant to appear in another manga but he went from normal student teenager to odd teenager without a past who isn't really human. ^^ What a jump! Well, no question about the name, it's impossible to spell any other way, even for TP. And the kanji is what his name means.

TP - Miyabi
Roman - Miyabi
Kanji - Graceful/elegant/refined
Jin's thoughts - Nothing here either, another kanji name.

TP - Hanakusuku
Roman - Hanakusuku
Kanji - Flower castle
Jin's thoughts - ^^ Her name is too pretty.

TP - Shian
Roman - Sian
Kanji - Auspicious/happiness/good omen
Jin's thoughts - ^^ Wow, Nohiro's surrounded by good things. >w> But since the "good omen" died... ^^;; No, we aren't going to make cruel jokes on Shian, her death and her name. Mineko Ohkami wrote her name as Sian, why? Some Japanese mangaka (manga artist) takes away the "h" in "shi" when writing it in romanji. No idea why.

TP - Silk
Roman - Silk
Kana - Shiruku
Jin's thoughts - Nothing special, direct translation, cutting the u's on both "ru" and "ku" because they lack single letters and transforming "r" to "l".

TP - Lim Kaana
Roman - Rim Carna
Kana - Rimu Kaana
Jin's thoughts - Kiiill meee! >.< It buuurns! *doesn't wanna see TP's version of the name* (Mostly because, in Swedish, "lim" means glue!)
^^;;; Eheh, anyway. Japanese doesn't have a c, at all, so c and k are interchangeable there but... >>;; Where did she get the "r" from?? *prays that it is a misspelling* Vote for Rim Kaana! Down with the glue! *waves a little flag*

TP - Kitchel
Roman - Kichel
Kana - Kichieru
Jin's thoughts - TP has done great here. Why? In Japanese, the letter "chi" sounds like "tchi" when pronounced. And the "e" after that is small, making it "che", so TP, for the readers' ease, put in the invisible "t".

TP - Reema
Roman - Rima
Kana/kanji - Riima
Jin's thoughts - The prolonged "i" here makes it, I guess, sound so much like "e" in Enlgish that TP made it Reema instead of Riima/Rima. In both Swedish and Japanese there's a rather big difference between "i" and "e" when spoken. What about the kanji? The "ma" is actually a kanji meaning "evil/wicked". ^^

TP - Duma
Roman - Duma
Kana - Deyuma
Jin's thoughts - Haha, right now, Deyuma sounds rather funny. The "yu" in here is small and placed together with the "de" it forms the letter "du". >IP Because Japanese doesn'thave "du" or "tu", only "tsu" and "zu". ^^; And the same goes here as it does for Rima, the "ma" is the kanji "evil/wicked".

TP - Pyore
Roman - Pure
Kana - Piyua
Jin's thoughts - XD Haha! This name I would never have been able to make out on my own, lucky I had someone else to fall back on. ^^; How the hell did TP get Pyua to Pyore? No, I did not justloose the "i" there. The "yu" in Piyu is small, making "piyu" into "pyu", easy huh? ^^

TP - Kuon Shiina
Roman - Sheena Kuon
Kana/kanji - Distant old story Shiina
Jin's thoughts - Ah, and now to one of themost interesting, name-wise, character, Kuon Shiina. The Kuon in her name is written with two kanji, which means "ku - old story/long time" and "on - distant/far". I did an as good translation as I could, because when it comes to kanji names it doesn't look good, or make sense sometimes, to just pile up the meanings of the kanji. And Shiina was written in katakana, making this name realy funny and odd, seeing as you don't usually even mix kanji and hiragana in a name,muchless kanji and katakana. Shiina has been translated into Sheena, and vice versa, in several places. It's a common name, even Japanese people can be named Shiina.
But all in all, Kuon Shiina makes for a really pretty, if not sad, name. ^^ However, I do notknow why Ohkami wrote it Sheena Kuon in her romanji but Kuon Shiina in her kana and kanji, it's like Shiina would be the first name and Kuon the last name, which Pyore said that it wasn't in the vol the Knights met her.

TP - Master
Roman - Master
Kana - Masutaa
Jin's thoughts - ^^ The guy that so seldom appears but is worthy of our love. XD;; The ever mysterious Master! ^^;;; One of those without a name. But at least he has something people call him and not just a title. ^^;;;; The long "a" on the end is to make the word just that... longer, make it sound like master instead of the car brand Mazda. XDD Hahaha!

TP - Ghost
Roman - xxx
Kanji - Tou no Tairiku no yuurei
Jin's thoughts - ^^;; Another poor guy who actually doesn't have a name. What the Japanese says is "ghost of the eastern continent", aka Arinas. (random info) Actually, in the manga Dusis and Arinas aren't spelled in katakana signalling that they're non-Japanese words, they're named "western continent" and "eastern continent", but they're CALLED Dusis and Arinas. ^^; It's complicated. *could define but not here* But this is Ghost, short and nice XD;, who helps Kitchel!

sweatdrop .................................................. Whoa, so much information, yet so many things I did not know. That was really interesting. For a moment, I thought you were going to explain about what do those names mean, but I didn't expect the translation and what's the difference between it. I've learned so much from you. Oy, sooner or later, I get a bad feeling that you'll going to get every charecter from the DK manga such as Mr. Death Dice or Mr. Goh. XD XD XD

Um, this might seem slightly random, but I like randomly trying to figure out what the names -might- mean. Some seem like you could logically connect them ("Rath", for example--Japanese-ish translations aside), and some are somewhat (though unintentionally, I'm sure) translate-able into other languages.

The one that always sticks in my mind is Raseleane, which can be translated into French, as it can be broken up into the three "Rase", "le", and "ane". However, the outcome is far from satisfactory (but also hilarious), as any of you that know a bit of French will realize. That is, "Rase-le-ane" listerally means "Shave-the(that)-a**". (a**, here, can be translated into "donkey" or the slang interpretation we use more commonly.) Grammatically, it would be more like "rase l'ane", but visually speaking, it doesn't look quite right. Besides that fact, "ane" is masculine to begin with, so I think with some artistic license, we can ignore that.

Uh, I'm sorry if that was totally off-topic, but I've been wanting to share that one... xd

So Karl just means 'man'? How boring (And this is coming from the person who's favorite character is Kharl. xd )
Hmm. I need to ask my Latin speaking friend if Avis Rara means anything. Well, I know 'avis' means 'bird'.

Germanic? o.O; Well, it's not like I study languages.

But I wouldn't really say it's feminine. *shrugs*

And yes, Tokyopop is evil for ruining his pseudonym.

*laugh* Names!
... which some of them sounds horrible when pronounced in English. =P
We're lucky we speak Swedish, eh, sis? So we don't possibly mutilate the characters' names when saying them?

... NADIL. xDDD;

<< >> Why, most certainly not. whee I would never! heart
Some names are just unfortunate to sound better in some languages in others...? xD;