Talk:Donovan/@comment-80.189.200.232-20141213183943

It IS needless, but I think Crunchyroll (and, for that matter, the localization team behind such oddities as "Mahrahia" and "N'Yah") were just being extra, extra, EXTRA safe, to avoid little to no legal hassle as possible. Viz, who did the English translation release version of Part 3, were much more reasonable due to the fact that they had Jason Thompson, an avid 'JoJo' fan, on the team, and Araki's cooperation (which differed from how he refused any name changes for the would-be-localized version of the Part 5 videogame) for such name changes that fit in with his scheme (e.g. "Soul Sacrifice" for Devo, "Zenyatta" and "Mondatta" for Oingo and Boingo respectively) and managing to keep names like "Vanilla Ice" (either they got permission from the one-hit-wonder himself, or the trademark to his name had just run out).