Talk:Re: Chapter 40/@comment-30068215-20150813044001/@comment-24494906-20150814143205

^ Well, it's not just "Yamori". There's also "Shachi" (Orca), "Naki" (Weeper), "Tatara" (Bellows) - they're nicknames, too. In these cases, the nickname has become similar to a name.

But they're all written in katakana, while "Hakatori" is still written using kanji+hiragana. If this were a name substitute, I think it'd have been written in katakana, too, or at least the hiragana would have been left out.