Tag Alias: tianzi -> jiang_lihua

Aliasing tianzi -> jiang_lihua.

Reason: Jiang Lihua (蒋 麗華) is the character's actual name. "Tianzi" (天子, "child of Heaven") is an honorific title used to refer to the Emperor of China, since it is taboo to speak their personal name.

I dunno, but ain't the above a spoiler of some sorts? If so, you probably want to mark it up.

Not a spoiler unless it was edited in the last 5 minutes. I support the alias.

Her name wasn't even ever given in the show, so its not a spoiler.

But everyone knows her as "tianzi" and not "jiang_lihua".

Also, source on the name?

The wikipedia article for Code Geass says her real name was revealed in the Sep. 2008 Issue of Newtype.

That's really obscure, don't you think? If her real name was revealed in the anime, then fine, but in an issue of Newtype?

Thing is, in the show everyone called her Tianzi, so everyone assumes that's her name. However, this is not the case; "Tianzi" is, as I pointed out, an honorific title, not her name.
Everyone calls her Tianzi in the show because that's the way people are supposed to refer to the imperial ruler of China during their lifetime.

For comparison, Barack Obama's name is Barack Obama, not "Mister President". Or perhaps closer would be the way the Pope is referred to by titles such as "His Holiness".

We've made edits to things revealed through sources outside the anime before, most of zero_no_tsukaima's cast's full names were only in the books, nanoha has some character names revealed only through outside sources as well. It's not without precedent.

Do we have any instances where no name at all is used in the anime, and the character is without exception addressed by a title which is treated as if it were a name?

This seems like a pretty unique case to me.

Heika from 2chan?

There's the class rep, from Seto no Hanayome, otherwise called just iinchou.

I believe there is also the club president for the occult club in mahoraba who is just called buchou. Wikipedia says she was named in the last chapter of the manga or perhaps that's just her stage name, it's kind of unclear from wikipedia.

NWF_Renim said:
I believe there is also the club president for the occult club in mahoraba who is just called buchou. Wikipedia says she was named in the last chapter of the manga or perhaps that's just her stage name, it's kind of unclear from wikipedia.

It's an alias, apparently. Japanese Wikipedia states her real name is unknown.

I'll chime in with ぱにぽに's 一条さん.

Ichijou wasn't a position though, it's a surname. More or less the same as Azumanga's Kagura.

Oh, really? I didn't give that too much thought. It appears that you are correct. :)

Mmmm, I'm hesitant to do this. Generally, it seems like our character name tags are meant to reflect the full version of the name they're most known by in the show. Also, one that wouldn't be a spoiler, thus revelations halfway through that someone is actually someone entirely different would be dropped. A name revealed in a magazine, after the show is done and that was never mentioned in the show, seems shaky.

This one isn't a spoiler by any means, however I wonder if it is just too obscure. Even Zero no Tsukaima's Louise [ /lv ] has her full name mentioned repeatedly in the show, unwieldy as it is.

I think this is a little different from the other Zero no Tsukaima characters who we had to go to alternate sources for. First, I don't know how many of them we confirmed really aren't mentioned in the anime, even if only once. Secondly, we wanted to be consistent across the whole series, so all the characters, I believe, got the treatment except where it was a spoiler. Lastly, a least part of their name is mentioned montmorency_margarita_la_fere_de_montmorency is a fairly painful looking name, but at the least it's easy to figure out who it is, as she's always called Montmorency or Monmon in the show.

It's an interesting question, though. Again, I'm leaning towards a "no", but we seem pretty mixed so far.

This is ridiculously obscure. Definitely a "no" vote for this one.

There's still that "additional media" sunrise claims is coming along with the manga in either of which they could state her name directly but if we want to wait for it to be stated within something directly related to the series that's fine.