Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-9442368-20170508014318/@comment-31961483-20170516034934

Nipasu wrote: WinxScreenshots wrote: uh huh.. the original names are kinda hard to understand though The more times you hear them said, though, you can improve at pronouncing them accurately. So for the Dokidoki girls (Minus Alice):

Mana (Mah-nah)

Rikka (Ree-ka)

Makoto (Mah-koh-toh)

Aguri (Ah-gur-ee)

(If my pronunciations are off, please correct me. XD) You make it sound so simple, and then we have Mahotsukai Precure and one of the lead characters we all thought was Riko but was revealed near the end of the series to actually be Liko. >.>

and then another example is Persona 5 with english voice actors saying japanese names and some names getting annunciated at odd parts in the opinions of some people. (SaKAmoto instead of just Sakamoto for one thing).

in the end it is actually easier to give them americanized nameds to give the english voice actors an easier time as well as giving easy names for the young american audience to follow.