The problem with blindly naming characters things in Japanese...

[amae]

..is that you'll later read some of the names and realize how horrifically hilarious they are. One particular moment happened this year during one of my Japanese classes. See, way back in the day I had this character named Jishin back in the day. Jishin's not that bad of a name admittedly, especially if you don't imagine it has any kanji and thus don't try to attach a meaning to it (otherwise, yeah..."self confidence"? "accident"? yeah.) But of course, I couldn't be satisfied with just that, no, Jishin was only a nickname.

His real name was Jishinkaminarikajioyaji.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So anyway, during this class we had just finished reading a short scary story and were discussing scary things in Japanese. At one point my teacher puts this word up: 地震雷火事親父. AKA "Jishinkaminarikajioyaji". She explains that it's a proverb describing things that are generally feared such as earthquakes (jishin), thunder (kaminari), fires (kaji) and...one's father (oyaji).

Needless to say I had to try very hard to not burst out laughing in class.

I have a lot more characters with ridiculous Japanese names, but I think poor Jishin had the worst of it.

*gets back to work*

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[cetriya.livejournal.com]

My character "Lai" used to be called "shichime" with a last name I dont remember (thought the current Silversten, isnt that great either).

I believe I was worse when doing names that wasn't realy japanese like " Yotsurei Fyzonxi". explain me that?

and other retarded names (that I might use for comedy) like "Shiriri" "Jiman" "Tatsuteko" and other such non sense.

But why so long of a name?