Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-25034020-20171216114835/@comment-31119526-20180115141642

How is 星空 related to her role/life/character? She's a dreamer, but that's about fairytales, not stars. みゆき is spelled in kana, so you could fill in any kanji that can be read that way and call that the meaning.

It just irks me that people assign this mystical meaning to kanji names. One of the first things Westerners often ask people of non-Western heritage about is "what does your name mean?". The idea being that non-Western names always have meanings. Yet no one asks that of Westerners. It's annoying, and othering. Japanese surnames are as random as Western surnames, and given names are picked because they sound nice or someone famous has that name, just like anywhere else in the world. Sure, in anime you sometimes get names which have some connection to the characters, but much more often they're nothing more than "just liked the sound of it". Adding etymology trivia for names that are unrelated to the characters perpetuates this bad habit. We're not a dictionary. If people are so desperate to know the secret mystical meaning of someone's name they can look that up elsewhere easily enough.

Okay, rant over. I'll abide by whatever the admins decide, but wanted to explain my feeling about the matter.