Thread:FirePsychic/@comment-3416013-20191117013725/@comment-3416013-20191117081042

@Megistos86: Not if they run counter to the actual official name.

@FirePsychic, sorry, but he isn't (and neither are you.) "Word of God" is a term for the say-so of the author themselves. Like with Full Cowl and Horikoshi actually spelling out "FULL COWL" in English in Volume 16. In the Japanese production, they took the time to draw out, in English, Gring Wave. What you're saying is that the Japanese version is somehow wrong, and that the incorrect Viz translation is right. That makes no sense.

I've already contacted Des on both here and the Discord, because I discussed this very issue in regards to the Full Cowl issue 1-2 years ago. He was there, and he knows better than almost anyone that "Viz Media Name" is not, in fact, the be all end all, as has a spot in the sidebar for a reason.

As someone who actually studied Japanese for three years (though admittedly as a somewhat lazy student), I know how Japanese functions. Japanese kana/kanji don't change in meaning on their own. It's the same reason that "newspaper" in Japanese is "shinbun" and not "shimbun," despite the widely-accepted mistranslation - because there is no kana/kanji for "m." Only "n." In the same way, when the word used (real or not) is "gu-ri-n-gu," it is not "wring." Just as "u-e-i-vu" would be "wave," "wring" would be "u-ri-n-gu" and not "gu-ri-n-gu." "gu-ri-n-gu" is Gring, like it or not. And, once again, the fact that the Japanese production company went out of their way to spell it as Gring Wave should be enough, along with the actual spelling in the manga itself, that the move is Gring Wave.