Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170327230407/@comment-24.176.2.221-20170407024724

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).