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Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:42:18 No.13992377 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13992386 >>13996029 >>14001218

This is the person in charge of making up the localized names.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:42:45 No.13992386 Report

Quoted By: >>13992421

>>13992377
Hydreigon

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:42:56 No.13992390 Report

Quoted By: >>14001133

remember to mash the keyboard and add some vowels

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:43:59 No.13992412 Report

Quoted By: >>13997371

Most of the names are pretty clever. Some are stupid, though.

>purrugly

They really should have gone with Pyrogrine instead of Talonflame, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:44:30 No.13992421 Report

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>>13992386
Trioxhydre

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:45:18 No.13992437 Report

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>implying it's not just a group of 3 70 year old men who have been locked in NOA's basement for the last 15 years.
>implying they get to eat if they don't come up with names that have clever puns

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:46:49 No.13992455 Report

Quoted By: >>13993063 >>13996151

>Beartic

GET IT GUISE ITS BEAR (CAUse IT S A BEAR) N ARTIC CUS ICE AND ARCTIC IS PRONOUNced "AIR-TIC"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:53:54 No.13992572 Report

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Quit bitching. The japanese names are far worse

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:58:34 No.13992655 Report

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>talonflame

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 21:59:45 No.13992673 Report

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Jesus /vp/ quit it with the autism

DugTRIO

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 22:18:09 No.13993063 Report

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>>13992455
Its Japanese name is Tunbear, which is Tundra+bear. It's a pretty close equivalent.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 2013 22:51:34 No.13993698 Report

Quoted By: >>13996255 >>13996382 >>13996584 >>14001152

>Probopass's JP name is Big Nose
>Umbreon is Blackie
>Kekking
>Jolteon is Thunders and Zapdos is Thunder
>Flareon is Booster
>Vaporeon is Showers
>Leafeon is Leafia
>Glaceon is Glacia
>Sylveon is Nymphia
>Espeon is Eifie
>Gastly is Ghos, just, Ghos
>Haunter is Ghost
>Drowzee is Sleep while Hypno is Sleeper
You faggots should be happy with the names you've got.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 00:52:10 No.13996029 Report

Quoted By: >>14001020 >>14001183

>>13992377
Braixen

I still keep calling it Blaxien, Braxien, like holy shit. I'm not French, okay?

I don't braise beef.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 00:54:48 No.13996063 Report

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no but thats prob the demographic target for the series.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:01:04 No.13996151 Report

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>>13992455
Funny thing is, Artic comes from αρκτος, Greek for bear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:06:49 No.13996255 Report

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>>13993698
This

Japanese names are mostly fucking awful or rely on cultural differences

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:08:19 No.13996284 Report

Quoted By: >>13996339

>Blastoise
>Blast
>tortoise

WOW SO ORIGINAL xD

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:11:57 No.13996339 Report

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>>13996284
but the thing is

tortoise is pronounced tor-tuss (roughly)
where blastoise is blas-toys

so... yeah. think about THAT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:14:02 No.13996382 Report

Quoted By: >>13996562 >>13997322

>>13993698
>Lizardo -> Lizardon
>Cocoon
>Spear
>Pigeon
>Ratta
>Arbo -> Arbok
>SAND
>Gallop
>Coil
>Dodo
>Crab
>Lucky
>Strike
>Fire

And this is just Gen I

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:15:46 No.13996412 Report

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You can't beat the ridiculous french names.

I mean, Pandespiègle, seriously ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:22:16 No.13996517 Report

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Boober

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:24:45 No.13996562 Report

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>>13996382
Coil's a pretty dope name for Magnemite though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:25:46 No.13996584 Report

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>>13993698
Don't forget Booby

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:59:11 No.13997235 Report

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This is why you give your Pokemon names.

/thread

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Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 02:03:08 No.13997322 Report

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>>13996382
>Those names

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 02:05:23 No.13997371 Report

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>>13992412
>not liking purugly
we're enemies

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Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 02:10:27 No.13997460 Report

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>ITT bitches don't know about the Japanese names

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Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:05:15 No.14000959 Report

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He looks very young considering his line of work

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Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:10:05 No.14001020 Report

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>>13996029
>braise + vixen
>i aint no frenchie so fuck u
Damn, anon, it's like you're proud for being retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:20:25 No.14001133 Report

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>>13992390
garbodor

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:22:04 No.14001152 Report

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>>13993698
But to them those names are foreign-like so they're cool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:24:08 No.14001183 Report

Quoted By: >>14001843

>>13996029
It's more likely from branch

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:26:59 No.14001218 Report

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>>13992377

The person who was either charge of translating the first four generations in to English or took part in doing so used to post in Pokemon threads on Something Awful once in a while. Was cool when he would show up and drop tidbits about the translation process.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:43:59 No.14001457 Report

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>Squirtle
>Squirrel+ Turtle

So original TPCi

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 06:49:00 No.14001499 Report

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yeah because the jap names are so glorious with they direct description of the mon and lack of puns for the vast majority of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Sep 2013 07:31:48 No.14001843 Report

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>>14001183
no it isn't

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