kaiowut99:

Yuto’s name in Japanese katakana is ユート

Phonetically, yuuto

Doesn’t leave much room for it to be transcribed as “Ute”

Best-case, they were going for “Uto” but even then it’s a stretch

And with the lookalike-Yuya and the “Yu” naming scheme there for context, would it really…

To add to this. Reira’s name is also in Kanji which reads Reira. He’s clearly Japanese. The only reason it’s Leo for their father is because his name has a “forced reading”, where you can force different readings than would be normal for the Kanji combination.

As for Yuto? Yu can be cut down to U in some words like ユニオン Yunion (Union), and ト (to) can be warped to “te” in some very very rare cases of foreign word spellings.

Why is it spelt like that then? Same reason we get Gasyu and Dolowa:

A) The people in charge of anglosicizing were terrible at their English classes.

B) Since English is a second language, it’s like your high school French, Spanish or German: “Use it or lose it”. And most of the people with decision making power are in their 30s to 50s. That means, potentially, at best they haven’t used English with any considerable power since 2002, at worst they haven’t use English with any confidence since the time Ronald Reagan was President of the US.

Then there’s stuff like Japanese kids being taught semi different anglocizing methods that leads to the word Bancho(u) being spelt Bantyo by Japanese people in English.

TL;DR: Ute is Engrish because someone hadn’t brushed up on English and Romanization in a long time.

kaiowut99:

Yuto’s name in Japanese katakana is ユート

Phonetically, yuuto

Doesn’t leave much room for it to be transcribed as “Ute”

Best-case, they were going for “Uto” but even then it’s a stretch

And with the lookalike-Yuya and the “Yu” naming scheme there for context, would it really…

To add to this. Reira’s name is also in Kanji which reads Reira. He’s clearly Japanese. The only reason it’s Leo for their father is because his name has a “forced reading”, where you can force different readings than would be normal for the Kanji combination.

As for Yuto? Yu can be cut down to U in some words like ユニオン Yunion (Union), and ト (to) can be warped to “te” in some very very rare cases of foreign word spellings.

Why is it spelt like that then? Same reason we get Gasyu and Dolowa:

A) The people in charge of anglosicizing were terrible at their English classes.

B) Since English is a second language, it’s like your high school French, Spanish or German: “Use it or lose it”. And most of the people with decision making power are in their 30s to 50s. That means, potentially, at best they haven’t used English with any considerable power since 2002, at worst they haven’t use English with any confidence since the time Ronald Reagan was President of the US.

Then there’s stuff like Japanese kids being taught semi different anglocizing methods that leads to the word Bancho(u) being spelt Bantyo by Japanese people in English.

TL;DR: Ute is Engrish because someone hadn’t brushed up on English and Romanization in a long time.