Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post

But you wouldn't pronounce Kojima as koj-I-mah would you? Japanese name, Japanese rules still apply, unless the name changes substantially to a plainly English name or word or is derived from another language or source. Your examples of Sephiroth and Cloud are flawed actually, since Sephiroth isn't a Japanese word to begin with, and neither is Cloud (I don't know if Kuraudo is the actual Japanese word for cloud, but it was translated into a plainly English name for North America). The reason for the somewhat odd sounding Japanese pronunciation is that Japanese doesn't really have some of the sounds that English and other languages have and the word needs to be changed to work in written Japanese. For example, there is no V sound in Japanese, nor is there a vowel or consenant that sounds exactly like cl in Cloud.

I'll just drop it after that little rant, but god help you if you tell me to start pronouncing Ico as I-ko.

I guess those wacky Squeenix people will have to start having more Bobs and Rickys in their games to clear that up. ;p j/k

Right-o, dropped. Hehe, but it was a fun debate.