Characters With Anime Names

[Yojimzo]

Eh, while I don't necessarily love or hate it, I do find it annoying. Then again, I go out of my way to have a lore-friendly name, so yeah.

[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.

[Iagainsti]

I haven't watched an anime since interstellar 5555 was cool, but I can't berate someone for putting more thought into their character name than choosing two songs that played back 2 back on their iTunes like I did

[Kosmos992k]

My current name is taken from Demon's Souls and Xenosaga.

Indeed....says Kosmos who's alt is called Shion Uzuki....

[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.

[ChazNatlo]

I actually give people who managed to get the name a nod of approval from my side of the screen. If they butcher it, I'm a little less impressed.

My names are either a name I happened to like ((My Alt Richard, though I was watching Gilmore Girls the first time I named him darn near a decade ago.)) Or just a string of sylables I've thrown together because they sound good to my ear. ((Richard's last name "Lethain" or both parts of my main's name.))

[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.

[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.

[Erudito]

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

Unless you truly identify with the anime character, I would want people to choose names that are more fitting on who they are, what they care about. Maybe a name that you always thought sounded really cool that wasn't from an anime or anything, just you.
Adds a little more spice to the character you create.

[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?