Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170327230407/@comment-31563910-20170407193022

24.176.2.221 wrote: Japanese doesn't have a "v" sound (or, it didn't when they learned the name of Vlad the Impaler at the very least). Sometimes they get some really odd workarounds for it (there's also the possiblity that it's closer to how Vlad is authentically pronounced but idk).

Maybe, but "v" is usually approximated with ブ. Maybe it's just the original pronunciation used "w", [wlad], so they had to approximate it with ウ? But if it's a preestablished and common translation I won't disagree with it.