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View Poll Results: How did you feel about Kotone's Official English Name?
I feel happy! 15 44%
I felt OK. 9 26%
I felt dissapointed. 7 21%
I FELT SHOCKED!! 2 6%
I didn't know that Lyra's Japanese name is Kotone! 1 3%
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Old January 1st, 2010 (7:35 PM).
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I just want Kotone thank you. :|
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Old January 1st, 2010 (8:28 PM).
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I usually call her Harp or Melody, based on her Japanese name's meaning. Based on the name itself, I'd call her Kate. Of course, that IS Argenta's Japanese name...
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Old January 1st, 2010 (8:37 PM).
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I personally love the suggested name of Harper.
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Old January 1st, 2010 (8:41 PM).
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Hey, just because she's named "Kotone" in the Japanese version doesn't mean she isn't Kris. After all, Gold is called "Hibike" now, but we all know that they're one and the same.
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Hey, just because she's named "Kotone" in the Japanese version doesn't mean she isn't Kris. After all, Gold is called "Hibike" now, but we all know that they're one and the same.
Yeah, but the fact that they're confirmed to be different characters means that Kotone isn't Kris. (Doesn't stop me from considering them to be the same character, but they're technically different.)

Even though I knew a girl named Harper when I was younger, it still sounds to me like a boy's name.
And while I do usually like boys' names on girls, the concept doesn't work for me on Kotone. She's too girly-looking. Maybe they can name Gold Harper. (But he'll always be Gold.)
I think they'll go with Melody or Harmony. Kristen fits quite well, I think, but I still think they'll keep the sound theme.
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Yeah, but the fact that they're confirmed to be different characters means that Kotone isn't Kris. (Doesn't stop me from considering them to be the same character, but they're technically different.)
When was it confirmed? I thought people only considered them different because of their names.
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Old January 2nd, 2010 (11:51 AM).
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i think her name should be melony
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Old January 2nd, 2010 (6:08 PM).
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I think most people would prefer kotone, just so there isn't another name to get used to. people hated all the sinnoh pokemons english names when they were first revealed, but now nobody minds.
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Old January 3rd, 2010 (12:39 PM).
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I wish it would be Soul, as that's now what I'm so used to calling her, but I doubt it would happen.

Kotone or Melody would be great.
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Her name won't be Soul for two reasons.
1. She appears in anime.
2. Unlike Leaf, she's a NPC in the games.

I hope they don't reuse Melody. That would be terrible. Kristen sounds good to me even though they may stick to a musical name.
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Old January 3rd, 2010 (1:51 PM).
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Who knows? Kotone's English name may be something completely irrelevant, or they may keep it at that.

Melody or Harmony does fit, though. :]
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Old January 3rd, 2010 (10:49 PM).
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I personally agree with the majority. Melody does seem like the most fitting name for Kotone's English name. Then again it all depends on what Pokémon dubs her to be in the English title. Harmony though seems like an overly done name for just a female character in the game. We'll see what she's named sooner or later though. I'm sure it could be completely predictable or utterly irrelevant as what was said in the post above me.

Kristen however isn't likely. It is too close to Krystal and it will relate too much of a similarity between the two, when it is known to be that Krystal and Kotone are two different individuals.
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Old January 4th, 2010 (2:07 AM).
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i dont care what they call her, i will be naming her Melody or Harmony, just like i always call Kris 'Crystal', and i call Silver whatever i can think of. Official names mean nothing to me, i give them my own if i deem the name stupid, such examples include: Red, Blue, Gold, Leaf and Silver. you know, the names that aren't even remotely names
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Old January 4th, 2010 (8:25 AM).
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"Melody" and "Harmony" sound like fitting names. For some reason "Lucy" comes to mind also, though I'm not sure why it reminds me of sound.
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Old January 4th, 2010 (9:45 PM).
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For Misty it was a translation from Kasumi. For Dawn, a somewhat pun based on translation from Hikari as dawn is the light of a new day, but for May... There was no connection from her real name Haruka, meaning distance, unless she started in the month of May which is a distance from January...
Anyway... Since the names alternated from translation to random and back to a somewhat translation, they might go with a random name again with maybe some form of alteration.
There was already a Melody in the second movie so they might not use the same name twice for a main/secondary character again... But maybe they will... Or a name with the meaning of Soul or Kindhearted...
Either way we'll know her US name soon.
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I don't think she'll be called Soul, the only reason they called Red and Green by those names was because they where what the fans already knew them best as from RBG/FRLG and it would have been hard to name them anything else for GSC/HGSS without messing up the charaters in the originals, I don't know what her name will be, but it will be a real name and not Soul.
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Old January 5th, 2010 (5:57 PM).
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I don't think she'll be called Soul, the only reason they called Red and Green by those names was because they where what the fans already knew them best as from RBG/FRLG and it would have been hard to name them anything else for GSC/HGSS without messing up the charaters in the originals, I don't know what her name will be, but it will be a real name and not Soul.
The only reason why Red remained with the same name now in the remakes of Gold and Silver is because that was his official name in FireRed and LeafGreen. Seeing as what happened in FRLG is three years before the events of HGSS, it would only make sense that he kept the same name. It has nothing to do with RBY because if the order of events hadn't taken place like they did, Red could have been changed regardless of what the fans knew him as.

As for Kotone, her English name can range from anything possible. At least anything possible with a similar relation to Kotone (or not). It would only make sense, but Soul isn't a lost option either.
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Old January 5th, 2010 (6:09 PM).
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The only reason why Red remained with the same name now in the remakes of Gold and Silver is because that was his official name in FireRed and LeafGreen. Seeing as what happened in FRLG is three years before the events of HGSS, it would only make sense that he kept the same name. It has nothing to do with RBY because if the order of events hadn't taken place like they did, Red could have been changed regardless of what the fans knew him as.

As for Kotone, her English name can range from anything possible. At least anything possible with a similar relation to Kotone (or not). It would only make sense, but Soul isn't a lost option either.
It has EVERYTHING to do with RBG (yellow dosn't because that is Ash NOT Red) because FRLG are REMAKES and apart from the small group of Island there is nothing diffrent between the games, when they desided to reuse the RBG charaters for GSC (RBG is based 3 years before GSC aswell thats well known) they picked Red and Green for there names because that was what they where already known as, and they kept it the same when they remade them, they where already default names for them in GSC and because of been so well know that way from RBG.
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It has EVERYTHING to do with RBG (yellow dosn't because that is Ash NOT Red) because FRLG are REMAKES and apart from the small group of Island there is nothing diffrent between the games, when they desided to reuse the RBG charaters for GSC they picked Red and Green for there names because that was what they where already known as, and they kept it the same when they remade them, they where already default names for them in GSC and because of been so well know that way from RBG.
If you were to relate the names with the original RBG and GSC, then yes it would have everything to do with those two. However, HGSS is now apart of the newer generation, therefore having a closer relation with the names of FRLG rather the the first originals. Regardless, the English choice of name for Kotone doesn't strongly factor based on Red or Green and how they were kept the same.
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Does anyone else hate that they just went and created a new character (with a non-traditional name, since these are the GSC remakes, not something completely new [I didn't really care that much about them doing that in RSE and DPPt, since those were completely original games, not remakes) without using Kris again? I would hate it even more if Gold were renamed, as he probably will :(
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I think Harmony would be a good dub name for her.


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Does anyone else hate that they just went and created a new character (with a non-traditional name, since these are the GSC remakes, not something completely new [I didn't really care that much about them doing that in RSE and DPPt, since those were completely original games, not remakes) without using Kris again? I would hate it even more if Gold were renamed, as he probably will :(
Actually, a lot of people (especially those on this site) were pretty upset when they first found out that Kris wasn't in this game and instead this new girl, named Kotone, is the female protagonist. A lot of people were complaining about it. I don't mind that Kris isn't in these remakes, because I like the new character, but I can understand why people were/are upset that Kris (the first playable female protagonist ever) wasn't in the GSC remakes.
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it should stay as kotone.much nicer than dawn or may
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I think you just have to watch the anime to find out her name. Look at Dawn and May.
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Doesn't ANYONE think her name would be Heart?
Well anyways I hope her name is Melody or Soul
Heart is good to but it sounds too weird
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I think you just have to watch the anime to find out her name. Look at Dawn and May.
We'll find out February 6th when she makes her debut in the dub.
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