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but only we Italians pronounce Giorno Giovanna correctly

In India, we don’t say Shin-Chen we pronounce it as the Japanese one; Shin-Chan. I can confirm as I am an Indian. They should’ve bought a small child from India, they know the true pronunciations of every character’s name lol

The reason Americans say Conan as "ko-nen" is because it's actually an Irish name so we're used to actual people having that name rather than the fictional one from the cartoon. I definitely grew up watching some Shin Chan and really loved it! It was translated to English but I still could how absolutely absurd the TV show was and its humor was just infectiously good

Mariko is Japanese, and she speaks such fluent Korean 👍

It's a good thing they didn't ask 90s cartoon in Italian, cause we used to change every character name and title into an Italian invented thing

I really wanna see them compare Pokémon character/creature names in different languages with the original Japanese. It'll be interesting to see which languages use the same names and which don't, and they can give their insights or guesses on the origins of the name (or if they don't know, the host can read it off a wiki site lol)

I feel like Indian pronunciations would also differ based on the speaker's mother tongue? Like I pronounce shin-chan more like shin-chyan (if that makes sense) because we have that y sound in my mother tongue. It's difficult to explain but anyway 😅

Alexander is right about the change names and the pronunciations , sometimes a japonese character name is too hard or too weird to speak in other language

I'm french and I (as well as every french I know) pronounce half of these differently. Like Conan (like in japanese) and Kirby (like in american) 😂 I guess it can depend on where we live in France

I am from India, and never have I ever said shin chen, it is always Shin Chan only 🤦

In the Netherlands we had shin-chan only for a single year. The issue is it was broadcasted on a TV channel for 8-14 year olds, but the kept in and translated all the vulgar jokes, which I loved as a child, and luckily my parents didn't mind it but other parents ended up signing a petition to get it banned and eventually succeeded

In France, "Kirby" is pronounced 'kur-by'

can we all just appreciate that most are speaking English as a second language and are communicating pretty well. thats amazing to me

the reason it’s weird to say ero kitty in Japanese is because ero is the shortened version of erotic 😂😂😂

You should get a Chinese person on there. The Chinese translations are all over the places, some of them are translated to Chinese phonetically, some literally, some takes the Kanji and pronounce it in Chinese, which sounds completely different.

Kirby's name is based on the name Kirby. the character was named after a person named Kirby. since the character was in a Japanese game, the Japanese pronunciation was used which is Kābi or however she said it. Kirby is the 'true' name and the names in the other languages use that as a basis rather than Kābi. (or we may have ended up with Cubby or something like that)

funfact: for some weird and unknown reason (at least to me), Lupin III's samurai friend Goemon is pronounced as "Geh-mon" (with an open "e" sound) in italian, although still being written as "Goemon" i guess the italian dubbing directors decided that reading that "oe" as a diphthong would've been more familiar to italian ears, being used to hear languages such as french, german and english

actually in the older videos from 2009 its called shin - chen but in all the other ones its called shin-chan in india

Mariko would go crazy at what they do to Ace Attorney and Captain Tsubasa regarding the character name changes!

I was a lil bit confused seeing mariko as a Japanese speaks fluent korean

Imagine if they asked about Marmalade boy, Hanayori Dango or Kodocha in italian🙈🙈🙈

This might have been more interesting if it could’ve been made like 20-30 years ago (or featured people from that era but Awesome World ain't doing that lol). Anime and JP pop culture are mainstream enough that names don’t generally need to be localized for different regions anymore. Even the characters based on Japanese puns like Rilakkuma and Gudetama get to keep their names now.

Her being shocked about Kirby's real name. Imagine if they asked about Ash Ketchum or any Pokémon for that matter. The names aren't even close to the original

The "ello kitty" would sounds weird in Japan because Japanese would say or hear it as "ero kitty" which means "erotic kitty" lmao😭😭😭

Ero kitty sounds like a very intriguing adult only version. 😂 Also Conan’s pronunciation in the US is probably heavily affected by Conan the Barbarian. They should have spelled it differently like “Konan” to get the correct pronunciation. After all, most people pronounce the Hyundai Kona correctly. For totally changed character names, they should have gotten a Chinese person on the panel because almost all Japanese character names are totally changed, or sometimes their Kanji names are used but pronounced in Chinese - Inuyasha got this treatment.

If you want names really pronounced differently, it's especially in cartoons like Ranma1/2 or Captain tsubasa, Card Captor Sakura.. like in french they put French name. Ex: Tsubasa is Olivier, the brother of Sakura is Thomas and his friend Mathieu, Shaolan is Lionel etc.... Etc ..

I really hope world friends would bring a japanese friend who can speak english well sometime.

first of all , as an indian , not everyone in india pronunces those anime character names like that ... i mean its fine ... but i personally feeling like im represented over here lol ... but yeah india is vast country with different culture and different pronounciation , beacause it also depends on the dialect of the people where you live . I have watched shin chan in jp with eng subtitles and the same goes for anime shows like kitraesu , monster , anpanman and other ... even i was shocked to listen how different the indian pronunciation are , and it was all new to me in india i can say why its dore-mon .... coz the real name is do ra e mon right ? so its goes like do rae mon ... and some people make it dore mon for shinchen .... its usally be pronounced like shin ch-ayn .... but as i said , it depends upon people dialects , there no issue with it . but it was fun , content overall i love the french pronunciation.

I knew exactly what Mariko was implying when she reacted to "Ello Kitty." Throw that back into a Japanese accent and that would be a very, very different character. lol

In the french dub of GTO there is that one episode when Onizuka has bowling ball in his hand and say i'm Doreamon and he prononce the "mon" like pokémon not like Alexander, i never hear his version. And we also have Shin Chan on TV, mostly on FoxKids back in the day on a pay channel so that's why not many people know him.

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You should have discussed the difference of pokemon names in Japanese and western. I think this is the best anime to cover for this purpose.

Doraemon in Malaysia is like how Indian say. Even though the show' was in local language we pronounce the -rae- like it's an English (or Korean) Word, RAE-chel. Do-RAE-mon.

In Spain we pronounce it the same as in Italy.

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Inuyasha was the first fictional character I fell in love with. I still remembers playing truth or dare in my early teens and answering Inuyasha when asked who I had a crush on!

I think pronunciation differs on various parts of India we mostly use japanese pronunciation in my state exct for kirby bt we pronounce kirby like american one pronunciation ❤ japanese anime and manga are so much famous in India also

I remember going to Japan, meeting some people, and I mentioned that I was first introduced to Japanese culture from Hamtaro (out of force of habit). They had no idea what I was talking about until I said Hamutaro (which I did rememver the prononciation since the Hamtaro song is the first Japanese song I learned)

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Doraemon in Cantonese would have them all laughing, we call him ding-dong!

Fun Fact: "Shigeru Miyamoto stated that "Kirby" was chosen in honor of American lawyer John Kirby, who defended Nintendo in the Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. case in 1984 and that the harsh-sounding name contrasted amusingly with the character's cute appearance."

For most of the Indians Doraemon and Shinchan are emotions , even my Parents watched alongside me . Comming back from school at 2 PM , i and Mom had Lunch watching either of the Cartoons . good old days 😢❤

Sometimes I wonder if is Alexander a real french? Even he has a french accent I already watched him answering wrong in others videos and now... In France we don't say "dore-mon" as he said it but "dore-mone" like "pokemon" and more we know too Shin-Chan and we also say Kirby "kurby" like the american, not the italian way

In France Shin-chan is shin-chan. For those who know about it, we say it the same way as Japanese people, he doesn't have a "French" name because it has been broadcasted in France during a really short period, most anime fans don't know about it as they are a bit too young for this Also, we say "keurbi" (like cœur). I've never heard anyone say it the way he says it. Tf is he on about

As a french person, I always said Kirby’s name the same way as American does

I love seeing these difference!!🤩

As an Italian I can say that rilakkuma, was not that famous but my melody was really well know because of the anime that you could see on television. At least for me 😂

As a little kid in the 90's, lots of anime was heavily edited and characters were given Western names, and anything Japanese might have been edited out. Many of the characters in Pokemon, Sailor Moon (the first time it was released), Cardcaptors (now Cardcaptor Sakura), Yu-Gi-Oh, & Digimon. Most anime I remember from childhood kept its Japanese culture, but these aforementioned ones were edited so much that any kana/kanji didn't exist and onigiri were called donuts.

i think in the US we would pronounce rilakkuma more like "reela-kooma". ive heard multiple American people pronounce it that way instead of the original Japanese pronunciation.

I like how the second guy mimicked the first lady and did a hand wave for hello kitty too ~~ 🤗

Rilakkuma and my melody are well known in Italy! Maybe not like hello kitty but I remember being obsessed with rilakkuma in the early 2010’s we also had my melody cartoon on tv, it was called my melody sogni di magia and I loved it

I may have been living on under a rock, but did any other American not grow up with Doraemon? I didn't even know what it was until I moved to Asia.

In Italian if we only listened to the"audio"of the japanese name Kirby we would probably write it Kabi. It _is_ totally different. 07:48 And I mean...the subtitles agree with me!;-P

It was interesting to see how stuff was pronounced in other countries. I do remember watching Doreamon on Disney XD and swear they pronounced it closer to the Japanese ver.

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I would love to learn japanese it's an amazing language and amazing accent. But i know it's not as easy to learn it

Another interesting interview is asking about Pokémon names in different languages

Rilakkuma is very famous as well as My Melody and Hello Kitty in the US

Love the vid her reaction was really funny 😂

In France, we say Kirby like in the USA.

Please let Mariko hear the theme songs of these anime in the different languages, please!

It feels illegal to be this early 😅❤

Imagine if they did this with pokemon names, human or pokemon!

It's confusing that the Japanese lady is speaking Korean😅

E tem pessoas que falam que o francês é bem próximo do italiano,a francesa ficou perdida. Português,espanhol e italiano são línguas bem parecida,o francês é latin

Ero kitty…. I’m dying 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Wow, Giulia likes anime! 😲 i like you more!! 😻😽❤️🌹

なに！！！Ca doit être le seul français qui prononce les noms "à la française". En France on a adopté la prononciation soit japonaise ou au pire américaine. It must be the only Frenchman who pronounces names "à la française". In France we have adopted the pronunciation either Japanese or at worst American.

So happy for this one. Doraemon and Shin Chan are my favourite characters. Also Kiteretsu,Ninja Hattori, Perman, Kochikame, Detective Conan and many more

In the US, shin-chan was on TV but it was on adult swim, which is a late night tv block on cartoon network for adults.

It depends a lot on the show and when it was brought over I think. When I was a kid they changed all the names of characters in anime’s to “localize” it. (Like Sailor Moon being changed to “Serena” in the 90’s) But nowadays most translations try to stay pretty accurate to the source materials.

Spain wouldve been an interesting one here aswell pero parece que en italia es igual que españa 🤷🏾‍♂️

4:25 me too like it.. even though I only watch a few minutes of it... I love the anime, Inuyasha...

Oh wow she's so beautiful ❤️😍. Watched the video just to see her.

The one representing Japanese is actually speaking korean 😂

It's a pity that there is no one from South America, the pronunciation is usually very close to that of Japanese.

Noopur ain't doing justice to the names man

Ello kitty in Japanese is Ero kitty, which means perverted kitty - which is why the Japanese lady was so shocked 😅

They missed Ninja Hattori haha, it's another one of those household name anime! The Indian dub has completely changed the names of some characters in there. The green ninja we know as Amara, the black cat Kiyo, and the pink ninja also has her name changed (forgot her name tho lel)

Except Shinchan, Doraemon and Conan i know nothing else. Even Conan wasn't that popular as it telecasted only few episodes then closed down but it got me so intrigued so i watched it online and still my fav anime of all time.

Mexico used to change the names of characters. For example Hikaru from Magic Knight is called Lucy because it's a name related to Luz wich mean light=hikaru. Another example is Kagome from Inuyasha here's called Aome because here is a term to indicate going to poop (Cago) so Kagome would had been like to call her Shitome in English jaja. 😅

Shin-Chan America I LOVED this show. Super funny!

Has nobody noticed that it says she's Japanese, and she's speaking Korean?

Kirby is spelled "Kirby" in English and other languages because the character is named after an American who had that name. The pronunciation of the game character in Japanese is Japanese trying to approximate the English pronunciation of the name. In that sense the "correct" or intended pronunciations of the character are the American English pronunciation and then secondly the Japanese pronunciation based on it.

In Panama (were I live) and basically any Spanish speaking country, Kirby is pronounced like in Italian, which does makes sense because both Italian and Spanish (and French) have a common ancestor, btw, in Spanish H is also mostly silent, however, for foreign words and names, unlike French, we do pronounce it, like in Hello Kitty, for this case, instead of Ello Kitty

Shin shan is popular in france but it was in 2000 ....

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I think part of the reason that Shin-chan and Detective Conan didn't take off in America is because in Japan they're children's shows but in the early 2000s in America they put it on Adult Swim with the more "mature" shows because they were seen as being too innapropriate to air on children's stations. Most people watching the Adult Swim anime block at the time were watching it for shows more like Inuyasha and Trigun and stuff, so Shin-chan and Detective Conan didn't quite fit in with the rest of the shows. Also Detective Conan was localized to Case Closed and all the characters were given Western names for some reason? Idk much about Shin Chan but Detective Conan does have a dedicated following in the west now even though it's never been "Popular" here. Lol I'm one of the few people who fell in love with it when it first aired, though I didn't vibe with Shin-chan as a kid. Sorry, Shin-chan. Also for whatever reason Detective Conan was localized to Case Closed and all the names were westernized. On Crunchyroll the series is under "Case Closed (Detective Conan)" But doesn't have the original English dub and the subtitles keep the Japanese names. I still have the English manga published in the early 2000s with the western names, idk what names are being used now if it's still being published in English. I've never seen anyone in the modern fandom ever call it Case Closed or use the western names though. If you say Case Closed they'll probably know what you mean but if you ever bring up "Jimmy and Rachel" you'll probably get a very weird look. Also if you like cutesy Japanese stuff here you likely know who Rilakuma is even if you don't know him by name, I see him all the time in any stores that carries cute Japanese things like Sanrio plushies and cute Japanese stationary and stuff. He's not nearly as popular as a Sanrio character but he's definitely around and usually in the same area you'd find them. If I showed a picture of him to my friends they'd recognize him but I think I'm the only one who knows him by name. Anyway, this is just some added perspective from an American who happened to know exactly who every single character on this list was lol.

in american english, the ways ppl say jp character names and their use of vowel/consonant sounds are way more exaggerated sounding than this but this was still pretty accurate!

also rilakkuma is popular here in the states,, the game is bigggg

SHIN-CHAN NOT POPULAR IN FRANCE ?!! NO SIR IT IS who doesnt know crayon shin-chan 😭

No one says SHIN-CHEN in India. 😅

Hi. American from the South here, we LOVE Shin Chan. It was on Adult Swim for ages.

is it just me bc i miss heejae and byungeun like a lot an iconic duo truely

In french .. Kirby or 'kur-bee' I would say. but "Kyyyrbee" ... I do not know if we all say like that. But I remember people of my gen also fighting about how to pronounce Unreal Tournament, some said 'Un-re-al tour-naman' or just "unreal" (read un-riiii-l) - and others said it properly in english. so yeah it depends of your age, and your knowledge of english I guess. But for sure,in FR anime where support popular - like 30 yrs ago, some stuffs were with completely different names : Nicky Larson (also the name of the anime) in French where the hero name in JP is Ryo Saeba - City Hunter

Not watching Shin-Chan is a humanity crime. Poor people.

So interesting

Its a shame and sad that u did not put arabic version one, its sooo wonderlfully amazing😇😎

5:15 it’s definitely popular in the US.. they even have it in kpop stores lol