Board Thread:Articles Discussion/@comment-177.192.149.222-20121222212834/@comment-4010045-20130110211403

Mmm...

1) as MetallicKaiser said the official artbooks are a more reliable source than the videogames... or else we should call Vanilla Ice "Iced". If I am not wrong, the Jojo-a-gogo does not list the romajisation the characters, only the stands.

2) Robert Edward O. Speedwagon... I guess Araki couldn't think of an English name starting with "O". His name is just a reference to the Reo Speedwagon band. Just like J.Geil. I don't know about the D'arby brothers... the artist's name is Terence Trent D'arby.

3) You're right. It's Hanged Man. Just like it's Tenore Sax and Sun. However, the Jojo-a-gogo book actually list Achtung Baby as Achtug Baby. Despite the kana giving a very different pronounciation: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d114/taleran/StandInfo/AchtugBaby.jpg This is why I say I don't know to what extent we should trust these romajisations.

4) The secondary chracters... I've just given aquick look and it seems that the sceondary chracters aren't given an actual name. For example Mariah's old lady is called "Obaasan" which is Japanese for "Old Lady".

I just noticed that Kraftwerk should be Kraft Work according to the artbook... the katakana also read it that way. I wonder why it has always been written Kraftwerk... also,in JoJo 6251: A) Holly is spelled "Holy".

B) Suzi's name is pronounced Q (Kyu) in katakana... maybe Quatro is her full name, while Q is just a short form? Like Speedwagon's second name Edward?

C) Thoth and Achtung Baby are written correctly

Sorry for the long post, I hope this is going to help somehow