how would you call the 2hus in other languages?
mazurolandczyk
Onshi
i often replace the names with a simmilar sounding name in my langage. for example marisa becomes marysia or reimu becomes renia
DexterWeinslept
Onshi
I don't know other people in my country rather than a classmate from secondary school who plays and/or knows about touhou. But I think we don't have to change the phonetics, so we pronounce as it comes the word XD. For example, Reimu is literally pronounced as "Reimu".
Ohh I should have started from the fact I'm from a country where spaninsh is the main language XD
I think in general pronounciation is not a problem, and in japanese never, bcs words here have similar pronounciations as their japanese transliteration. So, from this side of the world it is what it is xdd
Ohh I should have started from the fact I'm from a country where spaninsh is the main language XD
I think in general pronounciation is not a problem, and in japanese never, bcs words here have similar pronounciations as their japanese transliteration. So, from this side of the world it is what it is xdd
kanedafanatic
Made more sense to put Tetsuo instead of Kaneda.
Outside of translations, there's not much I can think of about French equivalents. Both North-American and European French speakers would refer to Touhou as intended. Maybe there could be some localization involved: saying Gensokyo as Terre des Illusions because it literally means Land of Illusions. However, interpretations can lead to different formulations: people could say Pays des Illusions or Territoire des Illusions instead yet the idea remains intact.
I assume thats not what you meant, though. For names in particular, Remilia stands out. The name is clearly inspired of of the French variant of Aemillius, Émilie (the -emilia part) though the R holds no purpose as in nobody named their kid Rémilie. ZUN likely wanted to stand out by adding an R to her name. As for the question of if it sounds good or not, Its subjective but for the majority of the people, it gives a twist to the name. It stands out but not too much.
Flandre follows suits. Its obvious if you know your geography but the name is sharing it from the province of Flandre (or Flanders in English) in Belgium and France (France holds the North, Belgium holds the rest). Though, again, nobody named their kid Flandre as far as I'm concerned. Only as a last name (County of Flanders, for example.)
Outside of Remilia's name that can get a French touch-up by putting a é (E-acute, makes the e... more acute; Rémilia), there isnt any special rules that differ.
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last second edit: Names don't really change if their original meaning or "core" isn't changed too much. The closest name for Marisa in French would be Marise, for example. However, given that both Marisa and Marise is a diminutive of Marie, it basically means the same thing, thus no change is done. Plus, given the way Japanese names are structured, there isn't much to compare in the first place. Reimu remains Reimu, Byakuren remains Byakuren, etc.
I assume thats not what you meant, though. For names in particular, Remilia stands out. The name is clearly inspired of of the French variant of Aemillius, Émilie (the -emilia part) though the R holds no purpose as in nobody named their kid Rémilie. ZUN likely wanted to stand out by adding an R to her name. As for the question of if it sounds good or not, Its subjective but for the majority of the people, it gives a twist to the name. It stands out but not too much.
Flandre follows suits. Its obvious if you know your geography but the name is sharing it from the province of Flandre (or Flanders in English) in Belgium and France (France holds the North, Belgium holds the rest). Though, again, nobody named their kid Flandre as far as I'm concerned. Only as a last name (County of Flanders, for example.)
Outside of Remilia's name that can get a French touch-up by putting a é (E-acute, makes the e... more acute; Rémilia), there isnt any special rules that differ.
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last second edit: Names don't really change if their original meaning or "core" isn't changed too much. The closest name for Marisa in French would be Marise, for example. However, given that both Marisa and Marise is a diminutive of Marie, it basically means the same thing, thus no change is done. Plus, given the way Japanese names are structured, there isn't much to compare in the first place. Reimu remains Reimu, Byakuren remains Byakuren, etc.
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SateriCat17
Neko Youkai Meijin
For Remilia's name (and to some extent with Flandre's), I see it as a name which was somehow "forgotten" to history, and so she is the only one alive who still holds that name.
Could also be a name related to an old family of noble vampires whom Remilia and Flandre came from whose names were struck from history at some point and so that name became taboo until it was forgotten from memory.
Napechi97
Chud
wplace...
anyway, in Poland we pronounce them normally as others, for the sole exception for cirno which we call her "Chirno" (if im not wrong, idk it's my assumption because im the only polish touhou fan i know, for the exception of 2 people that i dont interact with anymore anyway). Although for some reason i personally prefer to call her "Tsirno"
Napechi97
Chud
The first symbol is kinda different from what was used to make this chinese fangame
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Is it czirno or ćirno?
xd0v3rdoz3
Certified Baka
Idk about how others in my country (Greece) call it as I don't think there are that many Touhou fans here but I'd probaby call them the same, but with the letters converted to Greek e.g. Reimu becomes Ρέιμου (pronounced the same way)
SateriCat17
Neko Youkai Meijin
There's a Touhou fan in Greece?!
Jeez, there might as well be a Touhou fan in every country on Earth on this site...
Napechi97
Chud
Ćirno, although proper writing would be Cirno since in Polish ci sounds excatly like ći so we never use ć nor ś before the i
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Dude im czech, I know čirno is the proper spelling