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HelpRe: With regards to Hatori
in reply to a message by m4yb3_daijirou
I think it's best to look at the names that real Japanese people have. On Wikipedia there's loads of famous Japanese people.
As an anime fan, I can tell you that a lot of the names that appear in anime and manga are names that aren't encountered very often in real life. Some are believable on real people (like Sakura) and some sound flat-out ridiculous on real people (like Usagi).
As an anime fan, I can tell you that a lot of the names that appear in anime and manga are names that aren't encountered very often in real life. Some are believable on real people (like Sakura) and some sound flat-out ridiculous on real people (like Usagi).
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To be honest, Wikipedia has a fraction of names that real Japanese people have compared to douseidoumei.net. After all, douseidoumei.net seems reliable enough as a source for me to use it (the names section contains 428,819 entries, so it's kind of an overview of how popular a name, for all ages, was). You might even encounter kanji combinations that you don't see in a dictionary (or, less often, Wikipedia - English or Japanese).
Anyway, Usagi is not as ridiculous, to me, as, say, Adamu with the kanji 男 that has sounds that are not pronounced like Adamu (I'm not sure if you're aware that that is a DQN name) or Pikachu with the kanji 光宙. And yeah, that's not all. Check out http://dqname.jp/ (in Japanese, but I'm sure you can read it) and you will see the many DQN names that I want to see it disappear.
Anyway, Usagi is not as ridiculous, to me, as, say, Adamu with the kanji 男 that has sounds that are not pronounced like Adamu (I'm not sure if you're aware that that is a DQN name) or Pikachu with the kanji 光宙. And yeah, that's not all. Check out http://dqname.jp/ (in Japanese, but I'm sure you can read it) and you will see the many DQN names that I want to see it disappear.
This message was edited 5/17/2015, 10:57 AM
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