Characters With Anime Names

[Atoli]

Since I wanted to be a bard, I named mine after Tauriel from The Hobbit (cause she's awesome), and then Kyudo because its the japanese martial art of archery

..and you never once thought that combining an obviously Tolkien-Elvish name with Japanese would sound...weird?
The same way it would be weird to name a child born to an US-family with German origins "Kyoko Mueller" or something like that?
Don't misunderstand, of course you are free to name your character whatever you want and I'm sure lots of people have all kinds of weird thoughts about my name as well (gave up counting just how many times I got asked if it's some variation of "meow" - it's not ). I just tried to explain why stuff like that bothers me :x
And the thoughts continue: "Couldn't she at least make an Elezen if she wants to call herself Tauriel? Why go with an Elvish name for a catgirl?" and so on.

Of course, I could just turn names off and only show initials if it bothered me that much. But it doesn't bother me much.
It's more like a minor annoyance, just like seeing characters which I consider ugly, or characters in slutty outfits with slutty make-up on.
It would be a lot worse to not know someone's names when I talk to them for the first time. And I wouldn't see funny or cute names either. But that doesn't stop me from thinking "Oh god, this again" when I befriend the next Benjamin Uzumaki.

[TaurielKyudo]

..and you never once thought that combining an obviously Tolkien-Elvish name with Japanese would sound..weird?

Nope I couldn't find an actual last name for her, so I went with my next favorite thing, which happens to be Japanese culture. I've never once thought it sounded weird, and I haven't had anyone come up to me saying "Why would you pick that name?! That obviously doesn't go together." This is a fantasy game, everyone is free to pick whatever silly/dumb/anime name they want. If you wanna silently judge then that's fine (who doesn't do that?), but idk if making a thread to complain about names is necessary.

Why not instead talk about why someone is using the name they have? One of those Kirito's may have chosen that name because the show meant a lot to them in some deep way. Who knows.

[Kosmos992k]

Why not instead talk about why someone is using the name they have? One of those Kirito's may have chosen that name because the show meant a lot to them in some deep way. Who knows.

Indeed. Whether jaded, salty people believe it or not, there are a lot of people for whom some story elements in SAO really touch them. Actually SAO has several elements that hit me, not least of which is Kirito and Asuna sitting together at the end of the Ancrad arc, watching Aincrad dissappear, as they also disappear from that world.

For me personally, that resonates because my wife and I stayed online all night saying good by to all our guild mates & friends in White Knight Chronicles 2 when that game was sadly terminated. We sat and watched the water in a stream flowing through my wife's Georama (town), listening to the birdsong that was part of the environment, and watching the cherry blossom fall; waiting for the servers to die. Sony/Level5/D3 had decided in their wisdom to quite abruptly kill the game after less than 2 years of life. We'd invested so much time and effort into our guild and playing that game with our friends, that when it was suddenly taken away, it was a real sense of loss and pain. Watching Kirito and Asuna struggle with the end of Aincrad, knowing that it meant the end of the world they'd lived in together, for years, just brings it all back to me - as does writing this.

For that matter, there are many who find the back stories in other shows/games moving too. For example, KOS-MOS & Shion from Xenosaga - I could write an entire dissertation on what those characters mean to me, and how they illuminate my life.

Another good example would be Idom@ster, a game/Anime no one would ever believe could have real emotion or meaning. Watch it, pay attention to Chihaya's story. Every person I know who's watched the IdolM@ster anime is moved by her story, most to tears or at least damp eyes...

The point is that Anime (and other media) characters have special meaning to individual people, they resonate with something in that person's experience. So Why does anyone feel a need to critique a character name chosen by another player?

If anything, understanding where a player's name comes from, gives us some insight into their personality.

Kosmos was my character in White Knight Chronicles 1 & 2 and was clearly and intentionally a tribute to KOS-MOS from Xenosaga. I always have an Alt character called Shion Uzuki as well. When WKC2 was taken from us myself, my wife and our friends made Eorzea our new home, and after playing Kosmos for so many hours in WKC, I simply couldn't bear to let Kosmos die with WKC. So, Kosmos was reborn in Eorzea, as was Shion. ...and now you know the rest of the story.

[Atoli]

If you wanna silently judge then that's fine (who doesn't do that?), but idk if making a thread to complain about names is necessary.

...no one made that kind of thread?
This is a thread about anime names, that's all. The basic question that started it all was "Does your character have an anime name?" and most people ended up answering some form of "No, because I generally dislike it".

That's how discussions are, you are free to stick to whatever you like, but you can't expect everyone to be totally supportive of it and like it too.
If I make a thread asking "Hey, are you all into roleplaying?" I can't expect every answer to be "Yeah, totally, and my character is xyz! ", instead I'd probably get a lot of "Nah, roleplaying isn't my thing but if people enjoy it, good for them, I guess?"-answers and maybe even a few "Honestly, it bothers me when they do that in general chat/makes me uncomfortable/etc." type of answers.

No reason to feel it is a personal attack. You put your name out there as an example so I naturally used it to explain what I see wrong with names like these.
And again, I'd never bother anyone about their name ingame. I know a handful of Rinoas, a Noctis, one Uzumaki and one Asuna. They are all great people. Maybe you are as well, after all, I don't know you.
I never talked to them about their names, but that doesn't mean that I don't have an opinion on it. I kind of assumed a thread which is meant to talk about these kinds of names was a place where I could honestly say that I dislike them, but somehow that's already considered an insult..?

I haven't had anyone come up to me saying "Why would you pick that name?! That obviously doesn't go together."

Which doesn't mean nobody ever thought it.
Like pretty much everyone in this thread who expressed their dislike for these types of names said, it's basically just a slight annoyance, something you just live with. It would be rude and unnecessary to confront anyone with that. But it doesn't mean that everyone you know doesn't judge your name in some way just because they never said anything.
(again, your name is an example because you brought it up as one. There are many that I consider much, much worse)

Btw, why do I get 2 seperate answers? xD

[TaurielKyudo]

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Lol, I guess you really have a problem with my character huh :P You are free to judge, can't stop that. I don't feel the need to base my entire character off her; I liked her name and she is a female archer, so tada.

Again, fantasy game, and in this fantasy game I wanna be a catgirl.

[KaitlanKela]

Lol, I guess you really have a problem with my character huh :P You are free to judge, can't stop that. I don't feel the need to base my entire character off her; I liked her name and she is a female archer, so tada.

Again, fantasy game, and in this fantasy game I wanna be a catgirl.

While we're talking about it, my problem with your character is actually that you chose to name her after someone who wasn't in the source canon. Her character is an insertion into an already fleshed out and complete universe by someone who had little to no grasp of the author's intent for the story. Therefore, I find her cheap, trashy and out-of-place. So that's what I think of when I see your name.

But whatever. Basically inconsequential to me.

[Kosmos992k]

While we're talking about it, my problem with your character is actually that you chose to name her after someone who wasn't in the source canon. Her character is an insertion into an already fleshed out and complete universe by someone who had little to no grasp of the author's intent for the story. Therefore, I find her cheap, trashy and out-of-place. So that's what I think of when I see your name.

But whatever. Basically inconsequential to me.

The point is that Anime (and other media) characters have special meaning to individual people, they resonate with something in that person's experience. So Why does anyone feel a need to critique a character name chosen by another player?

If it's so inconsequential, why are you so insulting about their name?

To be perfectly honest, I wish people would not name their characters like that.

Why? What does it matter to you? If they choose some lore accurate 'name' where the name fit's the rules of lore but is otherwise meaningless and difficult to pronounce or type, is it really any different to picking an anime character to name your avatar for? Really, what does it matter to you? It's their choice, why can't you just respect that and move on?

[KaitlanKela]

The point is that Anime (and other media) characters have special meaning to individual people, they resonate with something in that person's experience. So Why does anyone feel a need to critique a character name chosen by another player?

If it's so inconsequential, why are you so insulting about their name?

Because that's what the thread was about. If this was in-game I would have walked right on by.

[Kosmos992k]

Because that's what the thread was about. If this was in-game I would have walked right on by.

Insulting others because of their choice of name is what the thread is about? Really?

I just *don't* see that in the original post;

Anyone else here named their character after an anime character. My character is from the monogatari series. if your character is named after an anime character and you are on the Diabolos server let's be friends. I'm already friends with Chitoge Kirisaki, Lina Inver, and Kotori Minami

I could have sworn it was more asking people who have used an anime character as inspiration to list their chaacter(s) and source reference, and possibly, by implication, why they chose them. Oh, and asking them to be friends if they share the same server as the OP. Definitely nothing about being judgmental and insulting.

[TaurielKyudo]

rude.

Wow. O.O Who would have thought someone could dislike a made up character so much. If that's your opinion, fine. I really don't understand why people are getting so riled up about a NAME. Lol. I'm an avid lover of all things LOTR and Hobbit, even if they are not original characters from the books. We're all having a respectful discussion here; you're not better than anyone else just because your name follows lore...and honestly to say that my character is cheap and trashy is very rude and hurtful...even if she is made up. So congrats on being the first naming convention elitist jerk on the forums.