Japanese Was Shocked By Anime Character Name Difference In Korea, India, Brazil, Spain and The US!!

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Did you know that Anime Character Names are different around the World?

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[simplymeghan]

We do not say Digi Monster in the US lol. She did say she did not know it, so makes sense! We call it Digimon. I grew up on that, Pokemon, and Dragon Ball! Loved all three!!!!

[GuranPurin]

"His name is Satoshi!"
"No, his name is Ji-woo!"

Man was gonna fight over Jiwoo 😂

[itachi]

You do realise dragon ball is prequel of dragon ball z 😂

[LeedleLee]

The official reason why Pokemon wasn't called Pocket Monsters in the US, is because there was already a series of toys/games called "Monsters in my Pocket". It's different enough, but they didn't want to risk any sort of legal issues. Thus, when they brought it over, they localized it as Pokemon. That's the official history behind the name.
Japanese anime/games (especially at the time) is carried over from Japan to North America first, then to the rest of the world. So that's why when it reached India, Brazil, and Spain, they just continued with Pokemon, Ash, Brock, etc.

[luizrauldd]

A energia caótica da brasileira e da espanhola juntas. Eu amo!

[cscunha]

Fun facts about the Brazilian dub version of anime: the voice actor who does kid Goku (Ursula Bezerra) is the sister of the voice actor who does adult Goku (Wendel Bezerra). She also does Naruto's voice, and he does Sponge Bob's voice.

[algorhythm]

I love the fact that Japanese Animation (Anime) is part of everyone's childhood in almost all countries

[cxssetteman]

The fact that they mentioned Bakugan, but did not even talk about Beyblade is criminal 💀

[kadajsnightqueen]

Speaking as an American, everybody I knew/know as well as myself calls the show and creatures “Digimon.” “Digital Monsters” was only used when we were singing the theme song.

[raquelpardal]

Satoshi is a name given after Satoshi Tajiri, the games' director, and Takeshi is after (RIP) Takeshi Shudo, the anime first seasons screenwriter. But I never realized that the surname "Ketchum" is a pun for Catch'em all. That was mindblowing.

[CandyLimeX]

I LOVE HOW FRIENDLY THEY ARE

Edit: dang why did I get this many like for?

[cpt.flamer]

Dragon Ball Z is actually a sequel to Dragon Ball ;p Akira Toriyama has drawn this series in two parts with different titles and anime followed this idea. The original Japanese titles were ドラゴンボール (Doragon Bōru) and ドラゴンボール Z ( Doragon Bōru Zetto).
Also Satoshi was named after the creator of the game Satoshi Tajiri and his rival Gary Oak (or whatever he was called in your languages ;p) was named after the legend himself Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario.

[liber-asian]

We all know who hasn't watched OG Dragon Ball

[andrewpark]

Son Goku and Son Ogong are basically the same name. Son Ogong is how the Chinese characters for Son Goku(孫悟空) is read in Korean. Likewise, the same letters would be read Sun Wukong in Mandarin and that's the name that Chinese people would be familar with. Same goes for Yuhiwang. Yuhiwang is how Chinese characters for Japanese name Yugioh(遊戯王) is read in Korean. It's not changing the name. It's just literal translation of the original Chinese characters. For example, a famous ancient Chinese tactician named Zhuge Liang is called Jaegal Ryang in Korean and Shokatsu Ryo in Japanese. Korean and Japanese didn't change person's original name. They're just reading Chinese characters in their own language. Might be a difficult concept for Westerners to understand but it's a concept that all East Asian countries understand.

[tenlee.fam_]

I JUST WANT ONE LIKE TO REWATCH THIS VIDEO AGAIN

[brunfi]

A energia da brasileira e da espanhola juntas é demais 🥰

[protonico]

Brasil acaba traduzindo direto do Inglês as coisas, então os nomes ficam mais parecidos com o inglês do que com o original.

[novametallica]

The fact that they don't know Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are separate series 😅

[dhyeyanand]

different by Languages but united by "naruto"😂

[STOCKHOLM]

As a guy named Brock I did have a high school class with a girl named Misty and a girl named Ashley who went by Ash.