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An acceptable romanization of the names as they appear in the work, yes. It hasn't been translated, so we should try to be as close to the original as possible.
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We use official English where possible, so I'd imagine we keep the English names of Pokemon. Characters are a little murkier, but if it's an adaptation of something that has been translated, I see no reason not to use the English names, but also no reason we can't use the Japanese ones for accuracy's sake.
So my own feeling is keep English names for actual Pokemon for clarity's sake, and could go either way on human characters, but favor official English for the same sake of clarity.
Edited by sgamer82
Use the English names if they exist. It's no different than episodes of the anime that have yet to air.
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^ There's a difference. This book is 20 years old and hasn't been officially translated. It's fair to assume it never will be.
As far as our translation policy is concerned, there is no difference. It's (an adaptation of) a translated work, so we use the translated names.
If nothing else, what's a casual reader of the page going to recognize first, Ash or Satoshi? Kasumi or Misty? Onisuzume or Spearow?
^ The same note could apply for a lot of works. Most in the Beyblade fandom use Takao but Tvtropes uses Tyson because that's what the current translation uses. A lot of dedicated Pokemon fans use the Japanese names anyway.
^ That "lot of fans" uses the Japanese names because they're Japanese. The English-speaking fandom universally uses the English names, so even that argument doesn't hold water.
Again, we are an English-language wiki. If English names are available, we use them. Period.
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^^ No, many aren't Japanese. I see the Japanese names used on forums frequently, no matter what country the person is from. It admittedly isn't super common, but it's not unusual either.
^ Even in this case? Odd, but okay.
This is interesting, since I've seen us run into situations where "Franchise 1" has work A, work B, and work C. Work A is translated in 1990, work B is translated (by a different company with different names) in 2010, and work C hasn't been translated yet. I recall the descision being that the Franchise uses the translations from work B, while a page for work A uses the 1990 translations, and a page for work C uses romanizations because we don't know how it will be translated.
In this case, we have Franchise 2 where work A and work B uses the same translation, but work C is still not translated. From the previous example, I'd expect work C to use romanizations, despite other pages using the same translations as work B.
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^ I remember asking on ATT about the Miracle Girls series. The manga was translated and had Dub Name Changes, but the anime has never been officially released in English.
It was stated that, in this case, the English names should be use even for the anime. I need to change the names on the manga's page one of these days then, since it uses the Japanese names.
^^ What work are you talking about specifically?
The work being discussed in this thread is a direct adaptation of a work that has been translated into English; it's far closer than just a "same franchise" case.
Pocket Monsters The Animation is a Japanese-only novelization of the Pokemon anime. The examples on it currently use the English names. If it's Japanese-only, shouldn't the names used in the text be used instead?
Edited by Pichu-kun