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I say we go with the official spellings or names as in what All Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven, the Crunchyroll anime subs, and the official manga translations use as a reference for keeping things uniform on this Wikia. After all, those above are "official" and sanctioned, as compared to the unofficial yet very good nonetheless, scanlations of the manga and one-offs floating around on the web. Personally I prefer "Hamon" over "Ripple" or "Sendo,"  most likely personal preference, but again even the official anime sub uses 'Hamon' as a proper term in subtitles rather than using the term 'Ripple' every time a char says "Hamon."

However I can see the issue with this, I assume your view, being that in Japanese, its *not* a specific term. And that, if we do it for one such example, for uniformity, we should do it in all cases of the 'incorrect' terms used. Also I can see it as silly to go back and use "Muishikui" rather than "Bug-eaten,"  since the official term used is "Bug-eaten" within the anime. But just the opposite of that arguement, I also find it silly to use "Idiot" or a similar word, as opposed to using "Nukesaku" despite there being several 'English' terms which convey the same message. Contradictory right?

Well, yes, but again these are the terms chosen to be used in the official sanctioned translations of the JJBA media. Since ASB and EOH use terms and names for the entire series, especially for those later parts of the manga not localised otherwise, it covers a lot of territory.

Yes I can see the problem with using the different officiialy translated media, since even that doesnt use official terms and names, especially in relation to stuff that would be copyrighted if the 'real' term or name was used. I will never accept Polnareff as Jean Pierre Eiffel.

It sounds like its something people cherry pick from. Because they do. Even more minor spellins make you question which is correct, like Straights vs Straizo.

Because valid points can be made for every stance on this, its a difficult call. But if I had had to choose, I'd pick the official translated stuff.

Last but not least, Blono just sounds extremely silly.