I don't recall discussion of the names themselves, just discussion of why all the names are alliterative.
Almost all of the surnames come from cities/districts/some form of locality in Japan with the exception of Molly (cause shes Irish af) and Maya (which makes me think its a fake last name). There actually have been three kanji confirmations that I've seen and I wish I had the photos to attach here, maybe someone could find them. Kaori Kadowaki (門脇), Wakana Watabe (渡部), and Imani Imai (今井). Kaori and Imani both have their names on their doors, I remember seeing it on an event with Sensei talking to Yuki and Imani was behind them, and you could see the nameplate. Kaori's had Nao-chan with her eyes all weird and had the Kadowaki nameplate with the number 23 above it. Could be a giant nothingburgerfriendburger, but my line of reasoning was if the names Sekai and Nozomu maybe have a meaning, then other names might too, idk. Also fun fact, you can see Kyoko Nagasawa written in hiragana all the way back in the happy event Something Everyone Knows and Ignores.
Not really. Names with useful hidden meaning are created top down from their kanji writings and not bottom up from their hiragana spellings, let alone their English approximations. I.e., you need to see their names in kanji in order to to even start speculating, and that's a hurdle we can't overcome for most characters in the games.
A good amount of the names aren't actually from well known locations as far as I can tell, but are just surnames or other things. I could be wrong, but I don't think a name not being a city or prefecture is an outlier. The Makinami is actually a destroyer of the JMSDF, formerly the imperial navy (there have been three, one lost, one retired, one in service.) I actually don't understand that earlier translation of Kadowaki, I'm not sure where that came from, but I would translate it differently if I had to. It is just a common surname though, actually one shared by a baseball player (And Sel is/was a baseball nerd.) Same goes for Watabe, but Imai I'm not sure.
That's quite a lot of extrapolation solely based off the fact that Futaba uses lavender-scented perfume. There are so many assumptions here that need to be all correct in order to have "Yuko aka DOUBT being this she" make sense when we can't even confidently discern what the upside down house really is.
So you’re saying this extrapolation might be… pareidolia?
Were you meaning This?
All these guys discussing the differences between the uses of hiragana and kanji as it relates to naming conventions and I barely speak English
Worked with a bunch of Japanese linguists and instructors. They love their shitty pop music but they're alright
If it makes you both feel any better, i only know enough to have some grasp of just how much i don't know. Couldn't tell you what a single squiggle means.All these guys discussing the differences between the uses of hiragana and kanji as it relates to naming conventions and I barely speak English
That's not what I meant. I am challenging whether any extrapolation of any sort here is needed even because it all comes down to the different take on Nodoka saying "you (Futaba) are special because she was".
Go to the dorms then second floor and back to the first.
The original point of Yumi ever bringing up her last name is because Yuki quitted yakuza, and she shouldn't have a reason to keep using that last name; the name itself doesn't have a special meaning other than the fact that perhaps Selly chose the name Yamaguchi for some irl authenticity, like the reference you mentioned.
Just replying to clear what it was incase no one had said, you're correct about it saying date. It is tree, which imo also makes more sense than dream. Lastly, as hilarious as it would be for Akira to be called Fat Boy, it's unfortunately Frog Boy.
