Thread:Angelo Gabrini/@comment-5224367-20200714075821/@comment-37883549-20200715110442

At this point I am pretty neutral about the change, my own personal preference is Ryuzu because I'm a bit skeptical about "Lewes" fitting for リューズ. Searching リューズ will yield other another character who has been romanised as Ryuzu, whereas for matches with Lewes, from what I can research it seems to relate to a city called Lewes, for example in one instance a battleship is Japanese-ised as: シティ・オブ・リューズ, to refer to the (USS) City of Lewes, or the numerous references to リューズ as Lewes (England) on some social media posts.

However, from what I can tell around the Japanese Wikipedia, are that these references to the city of Lewes (both the one in Suffolk, and in Delaware) are actually officially, and IMO more correctly, Japanese-ised as ルイス, with some acceptable deviation shown as: ルーイス.

Sources: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9_(%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89) Sources: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9_(%E3%83%87%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2%E5%B7%9E)

Edit: Actually, if I recall correctly, there was a time that Google would show the Wikiedpia page for the city of Lewes for a Google Search for  リューズ, however that seemed to be done by error since the Wikipedia spells it as shown above.

Even with a super-southern Britsh accent, pronouncing Lewes as Lyuwes feels a bit too assuming for リューズ. To me it sounds like it should have a pronounciation like Lyuus, or Lyuuz or the sort, which feels a bit too assuming for "Lewes".

I bring these up as other points, rather than the official romanisations, since it's not uncommon for the official romanisations to be completely incorrect, or just inconsistent. For example, Theresia has 4 (!) official ways to romanise her name, and Garfiel has cropped up as Garfield more than once in official publications. Ultimately the trade off here would be a more palpable name to the English audience versus one that for now, is more official, and probably more correct. For that, I don't really mind either way which way it's kept, barring further affirmation from say the Author of whether he cares about the romanisation or whatever, or whether her name was meant to be Japanese like characters like Shasuke and Raizo.

Though, in any case, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts of course @Angelo since my understanding of Japanese pronounciation is not at a native level's.