That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tensei shitara Slime datta Ken

[Buffalobiian]

Just oni.

Japanese authors do this all the time. They write down a set of kanji but invent their own way of reading it via furigana. Like 月 is somehow Light in Death Note.

Right. I never understood how 月 was Light in Death Note.

I dislike this "own way of reading it" thing because it's weird and seems to mess up an otherwise established language system.

[Kraco]

I dislike this "own way of reading it" thing because it's weird and seems to mess up an otherwise established language system.

Funnily enough English is also guilty of it, to a degree, as in many cases you simply have to know beforehand how a word is pronounced. Theoretically English fiction could thus come up with any number of fancy names that nobody would know how to utter aloud, when simply reading the text. In fact I've probably had no idea what the author might have sometimes had in mind when I was reading fantasy and scifi novels in the past.