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Finally beat the voice actor name spelling curse
I've been watching anime for like 6 years and always botched the romanized names in forum posts. Last night I was typing about the new season and spelled the director's name right on the first try without checking Google. I was just sitting in my kitchen at 1am and it clicked. Felt weirdly proud for something so small. Anyone else have a random milestone moment like that with translation quirks?
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johnson.eva1mo ago
Which name was it? I ask because there's a huge difference between nailing something like "Yuki Kajiura" (pretty easy) versus surviving the nightmare that is "Chifuyu Himekawa" or any name with a double consonant followed by a random apostrophe. Six years in and I still second-guess every "ou" versus "o" and whether that "u" at the end is silent or not. What trips me up most is when the same voice actor has two spellings floating around, like one site uses "Nobuhiko" and another swears it's "Nobuhiko" with a macron. Did you have a system you finally figured out, or did your brain just quietly file it away after enough repetition?
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