Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
The only thing wrong about the name is that MFauli's native tongue is German and he's not amused anymore by random anime characters having German nouns as names. He said it himself: "I thought we were past the random use of German nouns in Japanese stories." That's all. Authors themselves have been playing with character names since the antiquity. A few stories take it to the ultimate extreme, like Goblin Slayer, where nobody has a name, only a title. That's a conscious choice by the author, as well.

This series is using nouns or adjectives as names at large, anyway. It might not be as deep as some other series (although maybe it is, and I'm just not paying enough attention), but it's there, nonetheless. Like Stark, whose name means strong/potent. He was actually first introduced as a coward, but he's also strong, whenever he's finally driven to the corner. Aura, the latest big demon, was basically all about the aura because her ultimate technique was based on whose mana pool is stronger, which usually is evident simply by measuring the aura a magician/demon emits. Relying on that was her downfall, though.

Beyond mere annoyance, I also find that it ruins (good) stories. I remember when Xenoblade 3 for Switch was announced and within hours, people within the Xeno-community had figured out the basic plot of the game, because the characters had names such as "Noah, Mio, N, M, or Offseer". There even was a diagram in the officially released material that made it extra easy to connect the dots. I mean, when your franchise is known for existential, sometimes biblical elements, what else could the story be about when the hero is called "Noah"?! :/

I also remember from Naruto, when Sasuke was fighting Danzou, and Sasuke got those two new crazy Sharingan-techniques, Izanamai and .. Izasagi or whatever. And people were simply googling those names and immediately knew what they were about, because Kishimoto simply took those names from existing legends.

Stuff like that is bad, because it spoils the things to come. Of course, since I consider Frieren (which btw is German for "(someone who's freezing") a bad, basicbitch story, there's not much ruined, but it's still an annoyance.