Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20150110013630

GreekTelepath wrote: I still like Curtess, given that it's closer to a real name. Just my personal preference. I feel the same. Still, I am changing my support for Karchess. It was another feasible option and mothy's explanation behind the choice sounds sound to me.

Octofan wrote: I'd like to point out too that it's going to be harder to make arguments for mothy's intention of some of these more unusual names now that he's outright said he doesn't consider the English spelling of them when he gives them. XD It'll be harder without having an exact case. Not well documented names are going to require more research into them as well. Hopefully we won't have any more Milkicent's or other peculiar (and practically unheard of) real names being chosen in the future.

67.65.248.98 wrote:

The argument is kind of null and void when half the names in the series aren't real names, especially when, as Octo said, Mothy doesn't consider English names largely when he's coming up with the names for the character and that largely Karchess was a pun on Kaito. Octo said "English spelling" not English names. mothy's statement was he doesn't have English spellings in mind when making those decisions.

Ie, save for the ones with English spellings he's actually posted over the years, he doesn't look up a name like "Kyle" and English. He picks it from it's Japanese spelling (カイル). Let's not twist what was being said.

That's a fairly expected response from a guy who is natively Japanese and is self-admittedly not fluent in English. Same with Ichika's responses to fans expecting her to confirm stuff about works she only illustrated.