History InconsistentSpelling / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'''s original translation had the central couple's names as Lloyd and Yoru Folger. These were later officially changed to Loid and Yor Forger, to respect the intentions of the author. (Their adopted daughter went back and forth on this, starting as Anya, then changing to Ania based on how her bedroom nameplate looked, then back to Anya when a new translator took over. Going by the anime website and Japanese merchandise, Anya is the intended spelling.)

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has a main character consistently labelled "Moka" on merchandise and in the show, and, as she's been passing as a human, she ''should'' have a Japanese-sounding name - still, her name is supposed to evoke "mocha", so some people just call her that.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo:'' Bruno's last name is officially spelled "Bucciarati", but the correct Italian spelling of the word is "Buccellati", which fans also use.

** From the final chapter we have "Boruto" or "Bolt" and "Sarada" and "Salad" English puns for [[spoiler: Naruto/Hinata's son and Sasuke/Sakura's daughter]] with bonus points for mixing and matching. Probably represents where fan translators thought WhoNamesTheirKidDude and some MeaningfulName on Boruto's part. ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm4'' doesn't make matters clearer for the former. The English version has the subtitles saying "Boruto" yet Naruto clearly refers to him as "Bolt" in the dialogue. ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'' has the official spelling as "Boruto", and eventually the English dub went with "Boruto" as well.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'''s original translation had the central couple's names as Lloyd and Yoru Folger. These were later officially changed to Loid and Yor Forger, to respect the intentions of the author. (Their adopted daughter went back and forth on this, starting as Anya, then changing to Ania based on how her bedroom nameplate looked, then back to Anya when a new translator took over.)

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan[=/=][[MarketBasedTitle Case Closed]]'', Ran's English name is spelt as "Rachel" in the manga, but "Rachael" in the anime.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Ash's rival from the Indigo League Tournament, Richie or Ritchie? ''VideoGame/PokemonPuzzleLeague'' goes with the latter, but official subtitles are split.

** Chinese usually approach [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign translating]] kana names using one of several rules. In Mocha's case, this trope arises from whether her name should be treated as an single expression (the drink), or two ("Mo" and "ka"), and this is complicated by ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', which has a pair of sisters called Cocoa (Kokoa) and Mocha (Moka) translated using the second rule. and ''[=GochiUsa=]'s Cocoa is already translated the same way as ''Rosario'''s. Going so far that the largest Chinese-language wiki on anime-related material, while naming her after the drink, immediately inserted a disclaimer to the effect of "that's the name used by the legal live streamer in China[[note]][=BiliBili=], a Chinese Website/NicoNicoDouga clone[[/note]] and does not imply this wiki's endorsement of the naming."

* ''[[Manga/RosarioToVampire Rosario + Vampire]]'' has a main character consistently labelled "Moka" on merchandise and in the show, and, as she's been passing as a human, she ''should'' have a Japanese-sounding name - still, her name is supposed to evoke "mocha", so some people just call her that.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
** Depending on whether you read the manga or the light novel (in the official J-Novel translation), the main character is "Catarina" or "Katarina", the third prince is either "Gerald" or "Jeord", and the prime minister's son is "Nicole" or "Nicol". The manga muddles things further with the covers using "Geordo" for the third prince.

** Brian/Bryan Cruyfford/Kluivoort, midfielder for the Netherlands. In the ''Rising'' Sun manga, there's even the spelling "Cruifort" for his surname.

** French midfielded Elle Sid Pierre is a rather complicated case. His nickname "Elle Sid" probably comes from El Cid Campeador, but that doesn't stop people of translate it as "Elle Sire" or something with a similar sound. There's also the fact that "Alcide" is a perfectly valid name in French.

** The translators had to correct the name "Blanche" - they intended to use "Branchir". This was because the translator had completely missed the point that the angel is ALL WHITE.

* In ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'', the name of Skull One is Roy Fokker. In the most recent glut of Japanese ''{{Anime/Macross}}'' merchandising, it's been romanized as Roy Focker for a number of years. At the time the 1985 English dub, it was always assumed that there was no difference between the two, especially given that the character's name is a ShoutOut to a historical aviator and engineer, Anthony Fokker (whose company designed the Red Baron's famous triplane) [[note]] It is often speculated that the Robotech adaptation chose the name Fokker to avoid Roy's name sounding like an almost F-bomb. But at time the series was created, it is probable that there was no Romanization on record for Roy's name, that being a more recent development. The Robotech writers likely simply recognized the Fokker triplane and the connection between Roy's name. [[/note]]. Due to FandomRivalry between ''Robotech'' fans and ''Macross'' purists, the discrepancy has yet to be resolved, especially given that the ''Robotech'' spelling is technically the correct one and the more recent Japanese romanization appears to be a retcon[[note]]Due to the problem of DuelingDubs, there is speculation that the name spelling change may have been intentional, as this spelling appears to have emerged into use around 2005, the same year that ADV dubbed the 1982 Macross series and that the Japanese studio Big West decided on this Romanization; somewhat similar to Sunrise deciding on the "Zeon" (as opposed to "Zion") Romaji in ''Gundam'' for international distribution.[[/note]]. It should be noted that there is nobody on record named "Focker" who is associated with aviation. There is a Heinrich Focke (of the Focke-Wulf fame) but the inspiration of Roy's name is not in dispute thanks to the cameo appearance of the Fokker triplane in two episodes (a model kit and a flashback of Roy flying a replica). And the personalities of the pilots in the original ''Macross'' were reportedly based on World War I pilots.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
** Depending on whether you read the manga or the light novel (in the official J-Novel translation), the main character is "Catarina" or "Katarina", the third prince is either "Gerald" or "Jeord", and the prime minister's son is "Nicole" or "Nicol". The manga muddles things further with the covers using "Geordo" for the third prince.
** The anime ends up mixing the earlier naming conventions, respectively using "Catarina" (manga), "Geordo" (manga cover) and "Nicol" (light novel).

One recurring, and irritating, phenomenon is RecursiveTranslation between writing systems, where translators rigidly apply a Romanisation system to characters' names even when in context they are obviously intended to be a relatively common Western name. If the name is a play on an English word, and this gets brought up at some point, expect the subbers putting up a disclaimer rather than just correcting the spelling. In some cases there is an intentional ambiguity that cannot be accurately represented in English -- see ''[[Anime/MaiHime My/Mai-HiME]]'' for example.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** [[WordOfGod The author]] has given the romanization of Spain's name as both "Antonio Fernandez Carriedo" and "Antonio Hernandez Carriedo".
** [[WordOfGod According to the author]], China's name can either be spelled "Wang Yao" or "Wang Yue".
* ''{{Manga/Bakuon}}'': The English anime names the bike club president ''Raimu'' in the opening, but shows ''Lime'' on a scoreboard in episode 7.

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''

** Besides not being able to decide which romanization system to use in ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', they also referred to Ranga as "Lanka", despite the fact that her name can't even be ''written'' that way.

* At some point during the development of ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'', レイン's name was apparently romanized as Rain. Notable since it appears that way on the first season's EyeCatch (it's normally covered up by the title logo, but it appears in plain view in the EC used in the 2nd half of the season). The second season's premiere has her writing her name as Rein both on a drawing on a train (belonging to another character with this issue, see below) and a business card... and it also appears that way in the EyeCatch.
** Another princess that had this issue was ミルロ: Two different supplemental books romanized her name differently (Mirlo and Milro), and [[https://forums.honobono.cc/index.php/topic,99.0.html both romanizations even appear in the same episode]]. Other romanization (and translation) issues are mentioned [[http://princess.ruby-eye.net/series.php?name here]].
** Not mentioned at the above webpage is a 2nd season character named エリザベータ. On the train that the twins draw on it's spelled as Erizabert, and [[http://princess.ruby-eye.net/chara2.php?elizabert this page]] spells it as Elizabert, neither being what one might expect from the katakana.

* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'': Fan translations are inconsistent with the name of the demon who works for C.A.T.T. He's initially introduced as "Jiku", which is how his name is literally presented. However, later it's shifted from Jiku to "Sieg". Translations from chapter 93 onward use "Zeke".

* Many Japanese ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' names suffer from this, and it's a running gag within the fandom. Deathsaurus (used by Hasbro and Shout Factory's subs of the Victory anime)/Deszaras (Used by Takara and used in Madman's subs for the Victory anime)/Deathsanras (used by Omni Productions' HongKongDub)/[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deathsaurus Debt Source (if you're in a particularly snarky mood)]] is a key example, as is Minerva/Minelba/[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Minerva jailbait]]. There is also Bardigus/Vuldigus/Barudigasu, a misspelling of "Bruticus," the Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 character Ruination is basically a PaletteSwap of.
** ''Desuzarasu'', the literal Japanese pronunciation of Deszaras, sounds much closer to the Japanese word ''karasu'' (for "crow") than "saurus" (which would be ''saurusu'' in Japanese). It's definitely not meant to be Deathsaurus, even if that's the official American romanization now... is what people thought, until [=BotCon=] 2015, where someone finally thought to just ask designer Koujin Ohno what the name was supposed to be, and he explicitly broke it down as "death" plus "saurus." Sometimes things are just weird.

** The Creator/{{Funimation}} dub uses place names like Lior and Ishbal, while the creator, Hiromu Arakawa, uses Reole and Ishval. The English manga can't seem to make up its mind which versions to use; for instance, fluctuating between "Ishbal" and "Ishvarla", "Xerxes" and "Cserksess", etc.

** The Death Busters were mangled left and right. Creator/{{Geneon}}'s subtitles and the Cloverway dub for ''Sailor Moon S'' gave "Eugeal" and "Yujial" to "Eudial", Telulu to Tellu, Byruit to Viluy, Cyprin to Cyprine, Ptilol to Petirol, and Kaorinite to Kaolinite. Tokyopop somehow mangled "Ptilol" into Petite Roll, and amusingly changed Kaolinite's latin title, Magus (mage), to Mag'''n'''us (large). They also called her "Kaori Night". A US doll box kept that name, though a popular fan mistranslation mixed it up as "Kaori Knight", as they did a completely unrelated Creator/{{Tokypop}} translation of an animanga. The English dub spelled Mimete's name as "Mimet" (from mimetite), but pronounced it the same way as her Japanese name.

** Similarly, Broly's name is spelled "Broli" in official subtitles to preserve the pun on "broccoli", but most other English sources, the Japanese poster of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', and both the Japanese and English versions of ''VideoGame/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}}'' use "Broly".

** Similarly, Broly's name is spelled "Broli" in official subtitles to preserve the pun on "broccoli", but most other English sources and even the Japanese poster of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' use "Broly".

** One point of contention is the character known in the subtitles as Majin Boo, in most English-dubbed material as Majin Buu, and in the manga as Djinn-Boo. His name goes alongside his master Babidi, and Babidi's father Bibidi, to form a reference to the classic Disney song [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo]]. A direct transliteration from Japanese would be Majin Bū. Buu is an acceptable way to transliterate the Bū part, though it is a rather odd choice, so the manga and official subtitles use Boo. Majin roughly translates as "Demon man" or "Demon person", with "Ma" meaning demon, and "Jin" being person or man. However, the word "Majin" is often translated as Djinn, and especially when combined with the Djinn iconography surrounding the character, Djinn-Boo works perfectly well. The one issue with choosing Djinn is that there's all the "M" iconography surrounding Boo and Babidi, and with Babidi's title of "Madoshi" usually being translated as "Wizard" or "Warlock", the "M" iconography only makes sense in English as coming from "Majin" ([[EpilepticTrees unless you interpret it as an upside-down W?]]), though we don't truly know if it does come from "Madoshi" or "Majin".

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* Layla/Reira Serizawa from ''Manga/{{Nana}}'', which ought to be a no-brainer since she specifically says she's named after the Eric Clapton song (but on the other hand it's romanized Reira all over official Japanese materials). This one has a bit of justification: in Japan, when a child is born, it's registered with the kana and kanji for it's name. Since Layla would be phonetically changed into Reira, this is her official name (in Japan, depending on her American passport).
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':

* "Captain Future", oh where to start? Written in English, turned to an anime, then backtranslated to German and French...Lessee. We have Captain Future/Captain Future/Capitaine Flam (now that was still easy), Ul Quorn/Vul Kuolun/Kahlon, Joan Randall/Joan Landor/Johann Landore, N'rala/Nurara/Saturna...wanna hear the side characters too?