Hey! It's another Yu-Gi-Oh! rant -- The Naming of Names

(Cross-posted to Fanficrants)

My first time posting a rant, though I've replied to others before.  General You is present in this rant. <--- (need to make an icon for General You someday...)

I'm not ever going to get upset if one person wants to use the name 'Yuugi' and someone else wants to spell his name 'Yugi' (though it is nice if after the selection is made, it stays the same throughout the entire story). I'm not fazed if one person wants to write 'aibou' and 'my other self' (or the Japanese version which is completely escaping me right now). Japanese names, American names -- it's all good. 'Anzu' is my cup of tea, since I hate having to use the character map to write 'Téa'. 'Mutou', 'Mouto', 'Motou', 'Moutou', 'Moto' -- there's a case for any of them, and because there really isn't a hard and fast direct transliteration from kanji/hiragana/katakana to the English alphabet, I just adapt and read on.

( The ranting lurks under the cut )