Swap YGO current "Danbooru-ized" tag names with character's official romanization

BUR #23113 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

For some reason, various Yu-Gi-Oh! character tags were stuck with "Danbooru-ized" romanization when their official romanization is widely available. Since we are now prioritizing official romanization, I don't see the reason to leave this as an outlier.

Edit: Added qualifier for Playmaker since that name is a bit too generic.
Edit 2: Added other alias for Arclight brothers' name.

I would actually suggest we should switch to the dub names like we have for Pokemon and Mega Man. The first couple of series were major childhood anime series that most of our userbase would've watched on TV dubbed, and those names are more well known than the Japanese names, even being used for some secondary tags like creepy chin Joey Wheeler (meme).

I'm not familiar with all the different mediums of Yu-Gi-Oh though, so I don't know if it's a similar situation to Digimon where switching to translated/localized names is unfeasible due to inconsistencies between installments.

HeeroWingZero said:

I'm not familiar with all the different mediums of Yu-Gi-Oh though, so I don't know if it's a similar situation to Digimon where switching to translated/localized names is unfeasible due to inconsistencies between installments.

As far as I know, only the manga (handled by Viz) that have different names with the English-dubbed anime ones (for all series, opting with the original Japanese names for the most part). Although both manga and anime are treated as different continuity with each other anyways (the anime series is considered "canon").

VR-Man said:

As far as I know, only the manga (handled by Viz) that have different names with the English-dubbed anime ones (for all series, opting with the original Japanese names for the most part). Although both manga and anime are treated as different continuity with each other anyways (the anime series is considered "canon").

If I remember correctly the same split exists in various other languages, wherein the localized manga has the original Japanese names, and the anime dubs (based on the English/4Kids dub) have the localized names, such as Joey Wheeler or Tristan Taylor.

Both the Yu-Gi-Oh wikia/fandomwiki and Yugipedia use the localized names for the "anime canon" pages, and the Japanese names for the "manga canon" pages. eg. anime vs manga

HeeroWingZero said:

I would actually suggest we should switch to the dub names like we have for Pokemon and Mega Man. The first couple of series were major childhood anime series that most of our userbase would've watched in TV dubbed, and thise names are more well known than the Japanese names, even being used for some secondary tags like creepy chin Joey Wheeler (meme).

I'm not familiar with all the different mediums of Yu-Gi-Oh though, so I don't know if it's a similar situation to Digimon where switching to translated/localized names is unfeasible due to inconsistencies between installments.

+1 to this, stuff like Dark Side of Dimensions and the Master Link game are still using the dub names years later, the VIZ English release is the only iteration to use their original names.

This has been something that I've tried to ask for multiple times but everyone seemed to wanna keep the weird romanization that nobody in the community uses.
I'd love for the Yuya variants to get the single u spelling if this goes through.

Some older topics about this
forum #221753
forum #203410

VR-Man said:

As far as I know, only the manga (handled by Viz) that have different names with the English-dubbed anime ones (for all series, opting with the original Japanese names for the most part). Although both manga and anime are treated as different continuity with each other anyways (the anime series is considered "canon").

From what I know it is just the manga all the old GBA games use the dub names, physical products, duel links, legacy of the duelist all use the dub names.
Even among fans from what i've seen characters are just called "manga [dub name]" instead of honda/jounouchi/juudai when they want to talk about the manga. Even if they use the non dub names it isn't with the extra "U"s. I'm in favour of either the romanization or dub name changes.

To support the above, I had never heard of "Juudai" or jounouchi_katsuya before I uploaded post #4566225 and was very confused and frustrated in trying to tag that. In fact, as a casual outsider mostly in it for the birbs, I haven't heard any of these names outside of Danbooru.

I don't think switching to dub names is a good idea on the basis that it would lead to inconsistencies across series. While it's true that most people grew up with the dub of DM and GX, the same it's not necessarily true for later series. The newer a Yugioh series is, the more likely people are more familiar with its character's original names, to the point that from Zexal on you'll hardly find anyone using dub names (and some dub names are pretty hated for being dumb). Yugioh dubs nowadays also take a long time to be made, which contributes to people getting used to the original names.
So I think it's better to treat it like Digimon and keep everything in its original name as to not cause confusion. And it's not that big of a deal since the dub names are aliased now that I noticed.

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The bulk update request #23113 (forum #268031) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.

....And it seems like it's got rejected because people forgot about this again. So I guess we will have to stick with the weird pronunciations that nobody uses.

If you want large BURs like these to go through you need to provide sources that show this is the official romanization.

nonamethanks said:

If you want large BURs like these to go through you need to provide sources that show this is the official romanization.

Is the mobile game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links good enough? Cause most of the characters shown in this lists have their names romanized
like this, and Oudou Yuga's named was romanized in the 1st ep of SEVENS as "Ohdo Yuga"

TheGamingRodent said:

Is the mobile game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links good enough? Cause most of the characters shown in this lists have their names romanized
like this, and Oudou Yuga's named was romanized in the 1st ep of SEVENS as "Ohdo Yuga"

There's also collab cafes and acrylic stand merch
https://ygorganization.com/summonscenestuffallovertheplaceexceptkcs/
https://ygorganization.com/info-on-anime-plazas-revival-yu-gi-oh-collaboration-cafe/
https://ygorganization.com/iknowmostpeoplewillfocusontheboysbutimmoredistractedbythosedarnai/
The only outlier is judai is jyudai for the protagonists

The bulk update request #23113 (forum #268031) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

BUR #27274 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

rename kurosaki_shun -> kurosaki_shun_(yu-gi-oh!)
create alias shay_obsidian -> kurosaki_shun_(yu-gi-oh!)
create alias lulu_obsidian -> kurosaki_ruri
create alias zuzu_boyle -> hiiragi_yuzu
create alias celina_(yu-gi-oh!) -> serena_(yu-gi-oh!)

Some missing Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V romanization and localization. Renamed the tag of Kurosaki Shun since there's a character from Love Live with the same name. Also changing the name of the other Yu-boys into their rather weird official Japanese romanization, which is present here.

I recommend doing the last three lines in a separate BUR as I'm sure it would not sit well with some users here.

BUR #27298 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias yuuri_(yu-gi-oh!) -> joeri_(yu-gi-oh!)
create alias yuugo_(yu-gi-oh!) -> hugo_(yu-gi-oh!)
create alias yuuto_(yu-gi-oh!) -> ute_(yu-gi-oh!)

As above.