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I have to wonder why they choose a lot of obvious and plain names for japanese names for pokemon, and characters.

Like, first of all, Zenigame (Squirtle) means POND TURTLE. There are also Freezer (Articuno), Thunder (Zapdos), and and Fire (Moltres), which are much more obvious.

As far as characters go, there are at least Corn, Pod and Dent, all named from corn, and Shaga, which is basically Iris in japanese.
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Shaga is Drayden's japanese name.
ataro posted over a year ago
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The english names do it too, but a lot more subtle, it's not as obvious as the japanese names, if you know japanese. I know a lot of the pokemons names meanings in japanese.
ataro posted over a year ago
 ataro posted over a year ago
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Bananaaddict said:
Well...why not?
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posted over a year ago 
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Because I was pretty much asking how the english names for the pokemon are a lot more creative than most of the japanese ones. And in the Yu-Gi-Oh! club I agreed with Raikagebee that plain names are a little to plain so... I just don't like it that much.
ataro posted over a year ago
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