Japanese Pronunciation
Kinda curious here. If she's called "名無し" in Japan, what would be the pronunciation of that? The only thing I can get out of it is that it ends in -shi, which is obviously different from her "Western" name. !8RstuPId2Y 21:18, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
- According to a kanji dictionary site I use(the same way I came up with "Rengeteki"), 名 can be pronounced as "mei", "myou", or "na". 無 can be pronounced as "mu", "bu" or "na". Interestingly enough, this kanji means "nothing" or "zero". Perhaps 名無し means that she has no name? But if that's it, wouldn't it be kind of weird to just call her "no name"? Oh yeah, perhaps you could find a better way to word that fact...^^; I couldn't think of anything else to use besides "Western fans". I thought "English-speaking"(or anything else for that matter) wouldn't be quite right in this sense.
- Pretztailfan95 21:54, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
- It could work like Tokiko did where we use Rengeteki and "Unnamed returning midboss fairy" or something. By chance, "名無し" shows up on her page as well as part of "Unnamed Book Reading Youkai". Huh.
- Also, Western sounds good to me.
Sure, we'd have to forget about our Aussie friends, but w/e. :X!8RstuPId2Y 22:19, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
- 名無し = nanasi = nameless. It's not a name.
- As for "Rengeteki", anyone could come up with any name for this character. With no official support (Koakuma) and no common use (Tokiko, though I don't support that one either), we have no reason to favor this over any other possible unofficial name, and should take an approach like "Unnamed Giant Catfish".
- Some Google hits:
- 951,000 - Touhou Reimu
- 215,000 - Touhou Koakuma
- 104,000 - Touhou Daiyousei
- 65,400 - Touhou Tokiko
- 233 - Touhou Rengeteki
- --TheSinnerChrono 23:53, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Well, it is the only name that's been thought up for her. And it seems to be sticking to her, based on what I've seen on DeviantART. Besides, Daiyousei was originally a fan-made name, but ZUN made it official. Besides, I don't think that's a reason to remove almost all the funfacts from her page, that is, if you were the one who did it. Also, is it really necessary to remove her relationship with Yuka? It's pretty safe to assume they have some relationship...why else would she be in Yuka's mansion and trying to chase you out in LLS?
- Pretztailfan95 01:06, February 17, 2010 (UTC)
- If she has no name, then she has no name. As a comparison, if you wanted more information to be known about a character, would you make it up and present it alongside official information? As you said, ZUN made "Daiyousei" official, but that hasn't happened for "Rengeteki".
- As for the fun facts: #1 and #3 were just merged, #2 was removed per "Character A is the Nth character with feature X", and #4 was removed because "名無し" isn't a name. (See the edit summary.) I removed the Yuka relationship because it's still speculation, no matter how likely you may think it is. --TheSinnerChrono 01:42, February 17, 2010 (UTC)