Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30068215-20160129095821/@comment-114.241.248.55-20160131034153

Old McDonald wrote: ^ Thanks for your comment.

You could contact Ishida on Twitter and tell him that her name should be spelt in Wade-Giles. But I suspect Ishida himself will never spell the name in Latin characters (the profiles no longer do so in :re), and instead it'll be an English translator (Viz, Funimation subber if there will be a :re anime) who will decide the official English spelling. (Same anon, just in case the IP is weird) The only exception I could think of is Karren von Rosewald on her "tribute" page (idk a better phrase to call it) at the end of Vol.5, which had the same information is previously given, except her name and sex are revised, though this is likely because of her unique situation. I wouldn't be too worried about Viz because they release a volume every 3 months (the same speed as Ishida's actual pace lol) and they're only on Vol.4 of TG right now.

In fact, it's very likely that someone's told him already (Taiwan has a high population of Japanese speakers and a very active manga fandom, even if TG isn't one of the mainstream ones.)  From what I've seen, people are actually more concerned with how 小 is a highly improbable (obstinate, really) last name. The Chinese scans put the translation of her English name as 萧吉尼 for some reason (aka Ginny Hsiao, though Genie could work because a lot of parents give really strange English names that sound somewhat like our given names) From what I've seen, everyone just hopes that "smol" is just a nickname.

" I'm glad that is got a somewhat definitive answer. I reckon we blame Ishida for this confusion." T o be fair, the need to fully romanize things is one of those things that don't come up often in Japan (e.g. he used katakana for her "English name"). The next time something similar crops up is likely to be if she says something in Mandarin (Fun. If this ever happens, expect more comments from me haha). In fact, it's great that he even introduced a Taiwanese character at such a... controversial time (most authors would have probably just made her Chinese under short notice) but this would be pretty much negated if he wrote in Pinyin. I just hope he's done his research.