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Yui:
Hi there!
I've been wondering about something. Would be a good idea to put the meaning of the characters name? For example:

天海春香 Amami Haruka: "AMA" is for heaven, "MI" for sea (UMI), "HARU" for spring and "KA" for scent (KAORI).

That's the only one I know. I thinking about that just for curiosity.

Naryoril:
i'll just add Yukiho then:
萩原雪歩:
萩 - "hagi" means "bush clover"
原 - "hara/wara" is a field/plain/meadow
together as 萩原 (also read as "hagihara") is listed as "reedy field" in dictionaries, i don't really have an idea what that means though since i'm not native english. I guess it's a meadow or something covered in clover.
雪 - "yuki" means "snow" as most of you probably know
歩 - "ho" means "walk" or "step"

In general you can just enter the name in kanji on jisho.org and it will list you the kanji meaning of the kanji on the right side

As a little bonus 2 interesting names:
響　- "hibiki" means "echo"
双海 - "futami" consists of "futa" for "pair" and "mi" for "sea". As another interesting tidbit about the name: 双子 - "futago", with the second kanji meaning "child", means "twins"

animagic4u:
In traditional Japanese, the third month (March) is called Yayoi. That's always how I've thought Yayoi got her name, on top of it being a rather common name for girls.

Maka:
No, because most Japanese names are picked for sound and not a deep hidden meaning.

Saying that Chihaya's name is made up of the characters for thousand and fast doesn't really add any information. The Aikatsu wiki does this and it drives me crazy. Like, not every name has to mean something. And most of the time they don't mean anything. Most English wikis don't do stuff like "well Bob is short for Robert which was derived from Hrodebert meaning bright fame".

Adding something like "the Yuki in Yukiho's name means snow" is good, because it's thematically tied to her, but breaking down the names by kanji on every idol just seems like something that would be wasted space.

People going "BUT WHAT DO THE NAMES MEAN" is kind of my pet peeve so that's why I'm so against it, lol.

If it's a meaningful name, sure, but very few idolmaster girls have meaningful names.

animagic4u:

--- Quote from: Maka on November 12, 2015, 02:56:30 pm ---The Aikatsu wiki does this and it drives me crazy.

--- End quote ---

To be fair, in Aikatsu, a lot of the names they have given the characters have some kind of meaning that they play with throughout the series. Such as Mizuki being the "beautiful moon" and Ichigo being a "star". There's more, but this particular example avoids spoilers. I'm fairly certain these naming conventions aren't a coincidence.

And then to a more broad point, in a lot of fictional contexts like anime and games, a lot of characters are given names with deeper meanings. Not every series does, but there are some that do. Angel Beats is a good one.

Leon definitely feels like one of these characters. Other than that though, I don't think many of the idolm@ster character names have a lot of deep meaning.
Well, maybe Eve Santa Claus

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