Talk:Killkill/@comment-33188324-20171107013201/@comment-25955276-20171203070050

By name changes, I would presume you are talking about how some characters have had their romanized names altered. They're not quite "name changes", and as to why that's so can be explained by the bounds of Japanese.

The vast majority of Deep-Sea Prisoner's character's names are written in hiragana or katakana. Hiragana and katakana are two alphabetic systems of Japan, constructed out of unique characters that each carry their own phonetic sound. The names we use on this wiki are English, names that we have derived from romanizations of the hiragana or katakana that creates a character's name. So, for example — Memoca is written in katakana as メモカ.

Romanization is when we take the pronunciation of each character of katakana, and translate the characters into what can be understood in English. メ is 'me', モ is 'mo', and カ is 'ka.' Memoca here is an example of a slight change to her name. If her name had remained faithful to her literal romanization, her name would be Memoka. But vgperson decided to alter the name and turn the K into a C, since in English the two are exchangable.

Sometimes translators don't just change letters in romanizations due to aesthetic reasons (as was the case of Memoca) but because of the bounds of Japanese itself. Take Ivlis. Ivlis' romanization for his name is イヴリス, or Ivurisu. Notice how in English his name has an L in it. Well, that's how his name is supposed to be written; Ivlis. But hiragana has a blatant restriction when converting into other languages; it does not have character for L. So instead リ (ri) or ル(ru) has to be used as a standin for L.

Kirukiru was the romanization of katakana, and Killkill is how it is meant to be written in English.