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The user has edit warred on these kinds of pages before.
Though regardless if he did or not, the other obvious issue is the racial statements.
I saw those, and I honestly didn't see any racism in what he said. Toei has been known to mess up English transliterations from time to time in various series - they're not native English speakers; we shouldn't expect them to get it right all the time.
That said, Hellwolf is clearly in the wrong here. It's one thing if Toei was clearly aiming for a known English word and missed the mark in one location; but Evolt(o) is completely made up and they've been consistent in including the O in the few places the name has been written out in English.
Bump.
...It's weird having so many websites and no way to properly display now, lol.
I think their way of thinking could be a problem sooner or later.
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Not a racist rant. The spelling of that name confuses me since I am also seeing "Evol"; I'll pass this one up.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Yeah, that's... not racist.
That said, Wikipedia is coming up at "Evol," so... there's that. It looks like the only English release of anything Build is the game Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters. Is the character in that?
EDIT: Little bit of digging seems to have the character's name on the Kamen Rider wiki as Evolto, with his armored mode "Kamen Rider Evol." So yeah, Evolto seems the way to go until an official English release.
Yes, the character's name is Evolto, and the armored form he transforms into by activating the Evol Driver is called "Kamen Rider Evol". Evolto is the person, Evol is the suit of armor. In theory, any character who can use the Evol Driver can become Kamen Rider Evol. It just so happens that Evolto is the only character who's used it so far (and most humans can't, since it effectively requires alien DNA to use—though a certain powerup might be able to bypass that).
In Kamen Rider Build, there is a character named Evolto. This is the only official spelling of his name. Even though the series is Japanese, his name was given as EVOLTO on screen multiple times in text written in Surprisingly Good English. Here is an Imgur gallery of screenshots in the series where the name "Evolto" appears in plain English.
There are no subtitles in the screenshots; this is all on-screen content present in the original broadcast. The character's name had been erroneously listed on Series.Kamen Rider Build, Characters.Kamen Rider Build Protagonists, and Characters.Kamen Rider Build Faust as "Evolt". Keep in mind that the character's name is entirely made up; it's not a real word, it doesn't mean anything, and there is no official source whatsoever that indicates his name is "Evolt". The spelling "Evolt" exists entirely in the mind of a subset of the fandom. So I corrected his name to "Evolto" on the three pages where I noticed the spelling was wrong..
The next day, user hellwolf99
reverts the changes on two of the pages, writes "Evolto is a mistranslation" in one of his edit messages (on Characters.Kamen Rider Build Protagonists), and he inserts an angry racist rant into Series.Kamen Rider Build claiming that Japanese people cannot be trusted to name their own characters because three years ago they once spelled a character as "Gord" instead of "Gold" and insisting that Evolt is just a "screwed up" romanization. I've checked other subpages of Kamen Rider Build, and he's also reverted other people's correction of the character's name as well.
Rather than get into an edit war with someone who has an agenda and an ethnic bias, I'm just going to post here and let the mods deal with this user. Thank you.