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I was going to ask if it wasn't "godzilla" first and ゴジラ is just how to pronouce it in Japanese, since I've seen it happen that way round a few times with aliases like these, but especially since I grew up associating "-zilla" with reptiles and dinosaurs and thought it was just a portmanteu. But I did an idiot check and actually TIL "ゴジラ" started it all.
Gojira (ゴジラ) is a portmanteau of the Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ, "gorilla"), and kujira (クジラ）, "whale"), which is fitting because in one planning stage, Godzilla was described as "a cross between a gorilla and a whale"
and FWIW here is a native Japanese speaker saying it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godzilla.ogg
So, I vote for gojira as well
It should be pointed out that even the Japanese use "Godzilla" though. Godzilla Final Wars (2004) Japanese film poster, Kurihama Flower World's Godzilla exhibit, Godzilla 1985 Japanese film poster, and Godzilla 1992 film poster
I don't really think switching from Godzilla to Gojira is necessary, so -1. Linking gojira to godzilla would be good though.
honestly, i'm not really fond of romanization changes but what exactly our policy says on cases such as these?
the name is written in plain kana and "Danbooru standard takes precedence over any officially provided spelling".
how is this different from ryu vs ryuu (topic #4433) and the more recent toei vs touei (topic #8859)? or is this different? if yes, then it must be stated and justified because this will not be the last lot of it.
guidelines and laws both exist to be followed and enforced. if there's a case it's violated then steps must be taken to resolve it. the wiki explicitly states that our main goal here is "consistency" and if we spotted one should be raised in the forum, by which this thread is all about.
Does this fall under the 'grandfather clause' where we don't use the Japanese names of neon genesis evangelion, spice and wolf, etc?
Ramming shitty names down people throats only because "it follows the romanization guidelines and guidelines must be followed" just isolates non-forum users (aka 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of users). Next thing you're going to claim is that cows are going to start eating each other if we don't alias it.
From video game tags, densetsu_no_zeldaand hoshi_no_kirby are aliased to their ubiquitously recognized titles, and the titular pokemon take their English names as a matter of recognition versus obscurity. "Godzilla" is undoubtedly the name known to English speakers, I'd wager even alongside mass ignorance of there being any other name for it. This monster's certainly spread far past a savvy fandom, and is too ingrained to change (unlike modern properties, which often get posts here before a localized name's even announced). And, likewise for pokemon, there is precedence of the localization used in the source material.
Log said:
Ramming shitty names down people throats only because "it follows the romanization guidelines and guidelines must be followed" just isolates non-forum users (aka 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of users). Next thing you're going to claim is that cows are going to start eating each other if we don't alias it.
i think you're completely delirious and wholly misunderstood the good intention of this thread. if you read carefully my posts, i'm asking for the best possible way to resolve this as this contradicts existing rules as old as time which i didn't create. what exactly the reason that this must be dismissed outright? if none, then this will serve as precedence in future cases, in case you are unaware. i'm raising this issue up, because i'm also obliged and required to. if not me and not now, surely, someone else will.
and aren't people already isolated by our romanization standards? people got a neg for it. threads popping every now and then. if this falls to a very unique case then it must be stated in the guidelines, which is exactly? what?
I agree with Log, this is even worse than the whole Horo-Holo thing. There's no point in changing a name that absolutely everyone uses just so we can follow some rule to the letter (and it's not even a rule anyway, it's more of a guideline for ambiguous cases as mentioned previously).
