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I like the name 'Finn' for Shizui. It fits his looks, his apparel, and his type specialty. Alder's grandson reminds me of "Fang" from Dave the Barbarian (hopefully somebody appreciates that reference). I don't really understand what's up with him yet, so I can't think of a name. He looks like Alder, though, and he uses Volcarona, so I would imagine that a fitting name would have to do with the sun or moths. Perhaps 'Sonny'.
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I think they'll surprise us and name blue guy something like Jenkins or Roger.
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I was expecting something more related to water, but I think I can see a hint of "marine" in the name. |
Marlon seems like a nice name, since it's a pun on the marlin - a species of fish. Shizui/Marlon has some fish-like features on him, notably the fins on his pants.
I don't get why they decided to change Pokewood to Pokestar Studios. It sorta seemed unnecessary IMO. |
I wonder if its released in early October and not mid to late due to P4 Golden which is a big game for Vita and they don't want to release the same day due to lack of sales for Pokemon? The earlier the better. I like the October 7th date
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Moist likely copyright issues in the states but not in Japan. also people were complaining from what I heard about Pokewood. Poke Studios sounds better to me. |
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I often find it hard to adjust to an English name cos I spent so much time learning the Japanese. |
Marlon really isn't pleasing compared to what it could've been. Let's just hope Alder's grandson doesn't suck. n_n
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Marlon is okay, but there is tons of better names than it, namely stuff like Nate and water related names.
Pokestar Studios has that Hollywood ring to it imo, while Pokewood sounds more shanty-like, and barely has a Hollywood ring to it |
I like the name Pokéstar Studios, it fits it rather well imo. I'm sure if it weren't for copyright issues that it'd be called Pokéversal Studios.
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I was linked to this trailer. Apart from the very narmy voiceover, the one noteworthy thing about this is that the rival is named Hugh in it.
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For all we know, that could be another Hihihiroshi.
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PokeStar Studios is an awesome name! I really like it :)
Oh and Marlon. Really? Suits him I guess. Oh Game Freak xD Rival is Hugh! Hikari was right! :o And okay I like being positive but Corless is a sucky name for Akuroma. I mean really >!< Homika's German name is the best! (Mica). Love that name. And Shizui's German name isn't bad, Benson. Marlon's better I think, so English wins here. |
Marlon?
I...LOVE IT. Marlon is perfect. His hair looks like a fin anyways, so it fits. xD I love all the English names! Now I really can't wait. <3 |
This is why I want an option to use Japanese names all this pre-release hype with the Japanese names fits and then I get the English and I'm completely lost
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Marlon's pretty nice. It's certainly better than anything I'd come up with.
Corless is pretty meh, though. If they just romanized Hugh, romanizing Akuroma to Achroma would have been nice too. Oh well. I guess it's not too bad. |
Corless? SERIOUSLY?!??! I HATE IT IT'S SO MEEEEHHHHH it sounds like a PIRATE NAME>>>>>>.> rage
Marlon is...okay. I would have liked it to be something else. |
Corless? Really?
What an weird name... Akuroma just has a better sounding imo. At least I got Hugh's name right. Now we just need Banjirou and the protagonists. |
I get how it kinda says "Colorless" but lmao even Colorless would've been better than Corless :x
Akuroma is what I'll stick to calling him, I think. Don't like Hugh as a rival name. :( |
Corless also sounds a bit like coldless (Kyurem reference?). I think it's the most evil sounding name ever...even more so than Ghetsis and Cyrus.
Marlon makes me think of sea (Mar is spanish for sea). Not sure where the lon comes from though... |
Pokestar Studios is the name for Pokewood. I finally realized what the "wood" in Pokewood stood for.
I like the English names so far. Nothing that new considering most of the region was already translated a year ago, but still a little bit fresh. |
Corless?
Really? It's such a strange name, they could of just stuck with Akuroma or changed it to Achroma. Marlon is an good name, just wondering how they came up with it. Most of the new English names are really good, especially Roxie. :D |
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I just don't get why they'd give Akuroma such a weird name. I see the evil and stuff, but it just sounds so AWKWARRRD....and like the name of a weird chubby pirate captain...Captain Corless....ewww.....it is just such a weird name and he will always be known as Akuroma to me. |
As I said, Hugh is not confirmed to be the rival's name in English. He can be renamed anyway.
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I'd love the female protagonist to be Alli or Allison, but that's what I already plan on naming her when I play my game haha. So...I kinda do want it to be official, but I kinda don't, cause then it'll be the norm and I will feel less original. ;( I could have sworn I read it was Mei though? The guy should be named UMMMMMMMMMMM Gira because he reminds me of Giradialkia idk. :)
So far I like the English names, like Roxie and Marlon, but Corless is...odd. Banjiro should be COJIRO! cause that'd make me smile. Maybe he'll be Trey, if his full name is Alder III because people usually use Trey for the third in the line. |
Or maybe Tres, Trei, etc.
I can see the player girl as being Allison, it matches her look. I see the boy as a Cole or Kyle. |
Awww, I'm glad someone else sees it. :) She reminds me of me, and I wish my name was Alli so I guess that's where it stems from. The male protag totally looks like a Kyle (not referencing Totally Kyle js). Cole would work too, but I'm leaning more towards Kyle. Banjiro could also be Trois lol. ;) Banjiro is an awesome name on its own though. I wish we could just keep it. XD
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I get the feeling that Banjiro will keep his name even though most of the others have not except for Hugh who got the romanized version of his name.
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Meh, I don't like the sound of Banjiiro, so I'm hoping that they change it. However, I do like the idea of Kyle for the main protagonist. Has a nice, cute ring to it that may of the others don't have (gold? Red? rly?)
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Kyle and Allison sound like average english names like Brandon and May so they seem appropiate unlike Hilda and Hilda...
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Wait.... Corless? Really?
Note to self, don't let The Pokemon Company name people such silly names.... >.> |
I CHANGED MY MIND I DON'T WANT ALLI TO BE HER NAME NOW cause I'll feel unoriginal ;o; I do like the sound of Kyle and Alli (or Allison) much better than Hilda and Hilbert. Like...idk what they were thinking when BW was getting localized. :/
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Perhaps the girl's name would be Alice, or Lea,perhaps Isa.
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Since we only have the protagonists and Banjirou's English names not revealed, I guess this should now be called the "Banjirou and B2W2 Protagonists English Name Speculation Thread".
I did come up with a few themes for the protagonists' names but now I have a new one. Kyle and Remy. It comes from "Kyurem", the version mascot. Remy is a unisex but more common as female name so that's what I chose for the girl cos: Kyle + Remy = Kyurem. |
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Remy is like, one of those unisex names. I see a few girls with it. Although Rema sounds like a good name to go with that theme. Male protagonists usually get the "primary" part of the theme while female protagonists get the "secondary" part of the theme. That was what they were doing when they named protagonists after game versions and also what they tend to name some characters in the Pokemon Special/Adventures manga. Kyra sounds too similar to Lyra, so I wouldn't like that... it's like how "Mei" sounds too similar to "May". I couldn't think of any "ky" names for the boy so I went with Kyle. |
Yeah, not many male "Ky" names. Also, his Japanese name is Kyouhei so...idk maybe it actually will be Kyle? Mei makes me think of May too, but I don't think they'd reuse another protagonist's name. So maybe Mia or Mya? Which imo don't suit her so I kinda don't want those lol... Remy and Kylie still fit the Kyurem thing you were going for, just swapping Remy over to the male player. But I do think that's pretty clever! You know, I'd really take any name over Hilda and Hilbert honestly. lol So even if the girl is named Remy, it's WAY better than Hilda. Hilduhhhhhhh.
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Well we know the protags are going to have matching names. Their Japanese names have things to do with transparency so I'm thinking
Clark and Clara. Like clear. But then again Touya and Touko were to do with transparency too but we got battle names -_- *checks what battler is in other languages* Or better yet, battle names. Girls Spoiler:
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There's more than that but those are the ones I liked. Though they don't match, I can see Boris and Deborah because they gave us Hilbert and Hilda last time. I like Art and Avril though. |
Clark and Clara...I can see that tbh. He looks like a Clark. She looks kinda like a Clara I guess? :( I dislike the matching names though, if that's the case again. It's not like they're fraternal twins or something so idk why they have to match. They haven't really matched before BW, have they? Brendan and May, Lucas and Dawn...maybe there's something I'm missing. I guess I should look up the meanings lol. :( And if those examples do actually match, at least it's not an obvious match like Hilda and Hilbert.
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I like Alma and Averil the most. Since Hilda and Hilbert started with the same letter maybe they will too.
Also if they go with Barack they should pick a name that means fire for the girl (Barack means lightning). Though it seems unlikely that they'll pick that name for obvious reasons... |
I just thought of another theme for the protagonists' possible English names:
Travis and Penny. Cos it sounds like "transparency", which is the origin of their Japanese names. Travis = Transparency. Penny = Sounds like transparency. I have to admit there's so many themes to choose from. I have now compiled a list of names according to themes I thought of. http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8b/Kyouhei_Xtransceiver.png Possible names for the boy: Spoiler:
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If I stick with the Reshiram/Zekrom theme, the dude should be Vincent or Victor (Volt) and the chick should be Bree or Bella (Blaze)
Although I doubt Bella just because Bianca's Japanese name was Bel. *is NOT a Twilight reference. LOL. |
How about "Khoury" for the male, it sounds kinda like his japanese name + it shares some letters with Kyurem.
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If that's gonna be his English name, we might as well make it Cory (or Kory), because that's more conventional. Pokémon, I think, is not a place for names like "Aymie".
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Anyway, the things left to name are: -A few new locations -A few new items -Shadow Triad -Banjiro |
Shadow Triad will be named Cilan Chilli and Cress.
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The Shadow triad is already called the Shadow triad in english, they were in BW remember? Or did they give them individual names?
Ps: They have been shown not to be Chili,Cress, and Cilan Maybe Banjiro will be Banjo...they sound similar... |
I remember Serebii posting that the Absol owning Shadow Triad member was named "Dark", but all of them have the same Kanji I think. I think they may go back to Team Rocket days and not name the Shadow Triad. Bulbapedia doesn't seem to have different names for them.
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idk. I don't see a Cory/Kory in him, or any variation of the sort. I think he's a nice Kyle, Cole, or Giradialkia lol. And yeah, I think the Shadow Triad won't be getting individual names, so I agree with Xander about going back to the days when no one but you and Gym Leaders had names haha. "Triad wants to fight!" idk yo.
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Dark is proably an abbreviation, iirc their japanese was the Dark triad or something around those lines. So in the english version they'll proably be refered to as Shadow.
I don't see the player as Cory or Kory either. Maybe his name will be Calvin? (If so I'll name a cat Pokemon Hobbes). |
They had them translated as "Shadow Triad 'Dark'" Like it had a name. But Bulbapedia doesn't have that.
Male PC kinda feels like a Dennis and the girl looks like a Bridget. |
I definitely don't see a Dennis in him lol. Dennis makes me think of Denny's though, and obviously that kid doesn't look like a building. Or pancakes. I like Bridget though, or some variation of it. tbh as long as they don't name her some unisex name or something like Susan, I will be happy. But saying that, I've jinxed it and they'll name her Susan. ick.
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Maybe Danny but Dennis? Hearing that name makes me think of Ghetsis...
Bridget though is a a good name though, I can that as her name. |
Bridget is an good name for her but Dennis reminds me too much of this dude from school who in all ways NOT related to pokemon
WHY IS SHIZUIS NAME MARLON MY STEPDADS NAME IS MARLON HE HATES VIDEO GAMES AND NOW IM REMINDED OF HIM ughh! |
Are any of the cities/towns yet to be named?
Marlon makes me think of a farmer...and the color Marron... |
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I'm going to call the players and rival by their Japanese names pity about Homika and Shizui's name butchering though I wish there was an option to use Japanese names for the main story and setting it so you can english pokemon names and japanese character names... |
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Maybe Marlon's town will have a name similar to Venice like Aqaenice (aqua plus Venice).
I don't think they butchered Roxie and Marlon's names, they are still better than BW's protagonists. |
Do you think they'll change the names of some of the lesser places and things such as the Plasma Frigate? It seems like they would keep it the way it is but we thought the same about Pokewood.
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Okay, just thought I'd bring this up: Akuroma/Achroma is now known as Colress.
IMO, that doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "Corless" did. |
I'm kinda confused why Kevin would be the rivals name. Just because it starts with K like Kyurem? Is that something GameFreak usually does to name characters?
Other tahn that, I like Ivey for Homika and Flynn for...that water guy... P. S. I've never seen it spelled Ivy for a name. But that doesn't mean much, I only know two Iveys. :P |
Wonder what's the right spelling Colress, or Corless. I hope it's Corless and the other form was just a typo on the site.
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WAT!?!?
COLRESS?!?! that has no point whatsoever. It makes me trip over my tongue, it doesn't sound as evil, and it doesn't have any real symbolism like Corless=Colorless did. UGGGHHHH i HOPE THIS IS A TYPO |
Akuroma´s English name revealed!
His name is Colress. He is a Pokémon strength researcher. I don't know what it means but it sure doesn't suit him, For a second I thought it was Corless but definitely didn't expect that. |
Colress = Colorless.
Corless was possibly the typo. |
Colress. A bit harder to pronounce but it's a nice name.
I guess they were doing the whole "colorless" theme. I guess Corless was just a typo after all. |
Why didn't they just cal him Cole? Or Ross. Or Coless.
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I had my doubts about the "Corless" spelling, and "Colress" fits better with the other unpronounceable Plasma-related names.
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Though I do think the other name does roll off the tongue better. xD |
I always saw Corless as a contraction of the world Color (removing the l and O) with less. the R instead of the L in the less part looks strange to me.
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I really hate Colress's name now. I had just gotten used to Corless, which semi-fit him, and now GAME FREAK drops this on us....
I suspect that even if it wasn't a typo, Game Freak may have realized that it sounded like "Core-less" reminding me of "heartless" which from what I know, Akuroma isn't...fully. Or maybe they thought it was too similar to Cyrus....idk. |
No matter which spelling it really is, I'm going to be calling him Corless from now on. Sounds better to me. :P
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