Sousou no Frieren

[Kraco]

The only thing wrong about the name is that MFauli's native tongue is German and he's not amused anymore by random anime characters having German nouns as names. He said it himself: "I thought we were past the random use of German nouns in Japanese stories." That's all. Authors themselves have been playing with character names since the antiquity. A few stories take it to the ultimate extreme, like Goblin Slayer, where nobody has a name, only a title. That's a conscious choice by the author, as well.

This series is using nouns or adjectives as names at large, anyway. It might not be as deep as some other series (although maybe it is, and I'm just not paying enough attention), but it's there, nonetheless. Like Stark, whose name means strong/potent. He was actually first introduced as a coward, but he's also strong, whenever he's finally driven to the corner. Aura, the latest big demon, was basically all about the aura because her ultimate technique was based on whose mana pool is stronger, which usually is evident simply by measuring the aura a magician/demon emits. Relying on that was her downfall, though.

[MFauli]

The only thing wrong about the name is that MFauli's native tongue is German and he's not amused anymore by random anime characters having German nouns as names. He said it himself: "I thought we were past the random use of German nouns in Japanese stories." That's all. Authors themselves have been playing with character names since the antiquity. A few stories take it to the ultimate extreme, like Goblin Slayer, where nobody has a name, only a title. That's a conscious choice by the author, as well.

This series is using nouns or adjectives as names at large, anyway. It might not be as deep as some other series (although maybe it is, and I'm just not paying enough attention), but it's there, nonetheless. Like Stark, whose name means strong/potent. He was actually first introduced as a coward, but he's also strong, whenever he's finally driven to the corner. Aura, the latest big demon, was basically all about the aura because her ultimate technique was based on whose mana pool is stronger, which usually is evident simply by measuring the aura a magician/demon emits. Relying on that was her downfall, though.

Beyond mere annoyance, I also find that it ruins (good) stories. I remember when Xenoblade 3 for Switch was announced and within hours, people within the Xeno-community had figured out the basic plot of the game, because the characters had names such as "Noah, Mio, N, M, or Offseer". There even was a diagram in the officially released material that made it extra easy to connect the dots. I mean, when your franchise is known for existential, sometimes biblical elements, what else could the story be about when the hero is called "Noah"?! :/

I also remember from Naruto, when Sasuke was fighting Danzou, and Sasuke got those two new crazy Sharingan-techniques, Izanamai and .. Izasagi or whatever. And people were simply googling those names and immediately knew what they were about, because Kishimoto simply took those names from existing legends.

Stuff like that is bad, because it spoils the things to come. Of course, since I consider Frieren (which btw is German for "(someone who's freezing") a bad, basicbitch story, there's not much ruined, but it's still an annoyance.

[DarthEnderX]

A few stories take it to the ultimate extreme, like Goblin Slayer, where nobody has a name, only a title. That's a conscious choice by the author, as well.

A consciously dumb choice by the author, btw.

But, again, it makes more sense there, because Goblin Slayer isn't trying to hide the fact that he slays goblins. Presumably Lugner wouldn't want to advertise the fact that he's a liar. It's counterproductive.

Personally I also like villains having evil sounding names.

And that works, for a villain that WANTS to intimidate. The terrifying warlord calling himself Bloodfist. The wicked pirate calling himself Blackheart. They're TRYING to inspire fear and obedience.

It doesn't work for a villain that wants to inspire trust and complacency to call himself Lord Liar.

That's like calling your secret evil advisor something like, oh, I dunno...Wormtongue.

[Kraco]

It doesn't work for a villain that wants to inspire trust and complacency to call himself Lord Liar.

That's like calling your secret evil advisor something like, oh, I dunno...Wormtongue.

It's not like Lugner would have been born and lived centuries, or at least many decades (I don't remember if it was mentioned) just for the sake of this one mission. The way I see it, this was just something the demons decided to do on a whim, more or less. It was based on nothing but the humans being really, really tired of fearing the demons every time they exit the town gates. So, against their better judgement, they decided to give the demons a chance, cautiously. So, no matter what the demon diplomat's name was, the whole thing was unlikely from the beginning. The name wouldn't really matter.

Perhaps Lugner got his name a long time ago and it was related to his personal history. It's possible the humans had forgotten or at least this town's folks never knew about it. If you look at our world, people in the highest political positions kept trusting Putin until the open war against Ukraine was finally launched last year. Before that, Putin had already done great many things to remove all trust, but when people really hope for the best, they only see and hear what they want to see and hear.

[DarthEnderX]

It's not like Lugner would have been born and lived centuries, or at least many decades (I don't remember if it was mentioned) just for the sake of this one mission.

Okay, fair. But then lie about your name!

"Greetings! My name is Lord Ehrlich. I'm here to negotiate on behalf of the Demon Peace Association."