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    Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
    This.

    What are you just gonna gonna leave Saitama's superhero name as Hagemanto, so that nobody gets the joke?

    If it were their real names, I could see leaving them untranslated, but if they're their superhero names, there's no reason to translate everyone else's names and not theirs.
    Japanese names many times have meanings beyond the name intrinsically, do you suggest then that all names should be translated? As I said above, it's one thing when it's merely a hero name, but when it serves double duty as a name + hero name, then the best course of action is to leave it as is (and have a note explaining the name when introduced) and use the translation when the full alias is used.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Munsu View Post
    Japanese names many times have meanings beyond the name intrinsically, do you suggest then that all names should be translated? As I said above, it's one thing when it's merely a hero name, but when it serves double duty as a name + hero name, then the best course of action is to leave it as is
    And I agree with you. The problem is, a bunch of people in this thread are just assuming that Fubuki and Tatsumaki are their real names, when there's nothing to suggest that's the case.

    If they were also their real names, than that would make their superhero names the equivalent of "Tina of Terror" and "Betty of Hell".

    We know Genos and Saitama's real names, but outside of that, pretty much every other hero goes by their superhero name, and there's no reason to think these two are any different, but a bunch of you are for some reason.
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