Board Thread:New on Owari no Seraph Wiki/@comment-36009152-20190806202502

Hi, if anyone new to the wiki or not is wondering why the site uses diacritic marks, specifically a macron (the horizontal line) above vowels on both first and last names, it is to help with pronunciation!

The Romaji, the Romanisation of the Japanese written language - turning the Japanese symbols into English alphabet letters, uses diacritical accents since names can be spelt “Yuichiro” or “Yuuichiro”. Yūichirō tells the reader that the name is spoken as “Yuu” or “Youichiro” not “Yu” as in “huh”. The anime and official English translations do help with the name, and yet is homage to the Japanese origin of the works, and a guarantee if no one has heard the names they are able to pronounce them as originally intended.

So if no one has ever heard the names spoken, or are foreign readers unfamiliar with areas others may assume, they won’t be seeing “Yuh ichiro” (it’s “Yuuichiro) or “Hi-ragi” (not “hi” how are you, rather “Hir-ragi”), neither “Shi-o” (foreign language speakers, particularly with regional accents can pronounce “o” differently, “oh”, “au”, accents just help with the specifics.

With different methods depending on which device one is on, which version of software they have, typing into the internet how to create letters with these accents is best. Or just copy and paste the names below when adding people’s names onto article pages and linking them for example.