Talk:Matsuri Washuu/@comment-24494906-20150628132659/@comment-24494906-20150730005517

I did not base the adoption guess on the break in the naming pattern, but on Marude's comments, because this is one way to read his lines (there's a second way to read it that I'll explain a bit later). It fit nicely, though, as an explanation of the break in the pattern. >_>

First of all, Imperial's translation of Marude's monologue is no good. The translator totally misunderstood what is being said. It really goes like this:

"Certainly the Washuu family has produced many excellent investigators until now... but, it's being thought that CCG's hereditary system is gradually coming to an end. There might also be the option of pulling from the branch family, but if Matsuri succeeds CCG, then things will get dangerous."

There are two ways to read this: Either Matsuri was adopted ("pulled from the branch family") to keep the hereditary system alive, because the main family line is dying out (read: Yoshitoki has no biological son). Or Matsuri is the biological son of Yoshitoki, but if he's no good, then he might be replaced with someone from the branch family. But who should this "someone" be? No one from the branch family has been introduced until now, and it's getting a bit late to introduce a completely new character from the branch family as a rival of Matsuri (though I guess it might also work out to reveal later that some established character, who does not have the surname Washuu, is a member of the branch family).

Next, I even explicitly pointed it out, but it seems people just ignore it. The pattern in the names of the Washuu family is not about the reading "yoshi", it's about the kanji 吉 which is read "yoshi" in most names.

The names of the previous 4 family heads are like this: 和修 大吉 (Washuu Daikichi) 和修 吉雨 (Washuu Yoshiu) 和修 常吉 (Washuu Tsuneyoshi) 和修 吉時 (Washuu Yoshitoki)

(Notice that there's even a second pattern going on here: not only is the kanji given down from father to son, its position in the name also alternates between generations. And I doubt that it's arbitrary that exactly this kanji is given down from father to son, since 和修吉 is the Japanese name of Vasuki.)

The name 和修 政 (Washuu Matsuri) is clearly the outlier here.