by iserlohn » Sat Dec 28, 2002 1:26 pm
His name is Guts. It is printed on the action figure boxes, used in the official R1 DVD translations, and appears in the Dreamcast game, R2 DVD menu backgrounds, and in the artbooks. I personally asked the fansubber why he used "Gatts" instead, and his answer was that he felt "Guts" would look stupid so he changed it. "Gatts" is actually a proper romanization, as "Guts" becomes "Gaatsu" which can be written in English as "Gatts". There's other similarities in the names of the other characters (Caska/casket, Corkus/carcas) but using those as-is would look too strange and as such they are spelled in an altered fashion on the DVDs. Seeing as how Media Blasters has a 20 min. interview with Kentaro Miura (the manga artist) on the DVD, I would think they cleared all name spellings with him or his representatives.
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