User blog:OnePieceNation/Viz translations are crap.

So this has been on my mind for some time now, viz in general isn't all that good in translating things especially names. Everyone that knows a bit abou japanese and the japanese language and how japanese pronounce english words know this THE JAPANESE CANNOT PRONOUNCE THEIR LLLLLLLLLLLL's.

That is why Luffy become Ruffy, everyone knows and it has been stated multiple times by oda that his name is Luffy however since the japanese can't pronounce their l many of them say ruffi/ruffy. This causes an in-story juxtaposition with franky who supposed to be based on americans (jim carrey/zoolander)  seemingly intentionally calling him ruffi.

Now to get to hunter x hunter, we should discard the viz translations and use their actual japanese manga names so Melody should be Senritsu since she is called that and not Merodi/Merody. Leorio Paradinight should be Paladinight since japanese can't pronounce their l's. Also his name is most likely a portmanteau of the words paladin (paradin) and knight (naito). Also I always thought that Morel last name was inspired by Paul McCartney (of the Beatles) last name. McCartney to McCarnathy. Not Mackernasey which doesn't even sound like a real name.

In short the japanese is the official and viz should go ***** themselves they have messed up multiple series.

"they don't take the time to understand as much of the original work as they can before they start translating to avoid as many mistakes as possible." like humbledsoul5121 said on myanimelist.