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For characters who are unnamed in the English manga, which should have a higher preference when choosing names for character articles, Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guidebook: The Gospel of Truth or the English Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters or is it something that needs to be looked at case-by-case?
In most cases, the Gospel of Truth, gives a description or occupation rather than a name.
The pages that this makes a difference for are as follows, with the English DDM name before the translated Gospel of Truth name.
- Thug A, B and C - Delinquent, failure or maybe even thug ×3 (不良×３)
- Feng Long - Street Fighter
- Jackpot - Escaped prisoner
- Kane minion A, B, C, D, E and F - Hirutani minion
- Affected pages: Hirutani Minion A, B, C, D, E and F, Large, Black haired and Blond Hirutani minion
- Director Lucius - ZTV director
- Merchant - Card shop manager
- Seeker - Rare Hunter (1)
There is the whole, English name comes before Japanese name. But this is a canon source for the characters' main appearance against something very minor. -- Deltaneos (talk) 02:13, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
- I would say the GoT should take precedence. If the appearances of their English names is literally confined to a single video game appearance, I don't see much reason to enforce the "English takes precedence" rule here. The only exception I can see is Seeker, I do believe he was called that in a number of other English video games, though I could be mistaken. Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 19:32, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
- I think that's the only video game where he's called Seeker and every other game he appears in calls him "Rare Hunter". The Gospel of Truth adds the "(1)" to distinguish him from the first two guys Yugi and Kaiba Tag Duel against, who are there as "Rare Hunter (2)×2" (and yeah, they have a separate entry than Masks of Light and Darkness). The Japanese anime episode credits call them "Rare Hunter 1", "Rare Hunter 2" and "Rare Hunter 3". (As it happens, 2 and 3 have the same Japanese voice actors as Masks of Light and Darkness.) -- Deltaneos (talk) 23:10, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Ug, I've checked the episode and the credits call the first guys Yugi and Kaiba beat "Mask of Light" and "Mask of Darkness", so I assume the "Rare Hunter 1" wasn't used for Seeker. But that Mask of Light and Darkness thing must be a mistake. Takahashi, who created the characters seems to consider them to be different and the build of the shorter guy in each duo is different. -- Deltaneos (talk) 01:45, November 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Gheez, that's confusing. We could chalk it up to them being the same in the anime but separate characters in the manga, but that would probably make it even more confusing, actually. Is Seeker even called "Rare Hunter" in Dark Duel Stories? IIRC, that game was released before Battle City was dubbed, so they wouldn't have used "Rare Hunter". I'm fairly sure they didn't just call him "Ghoul" either, but its been over a decade since I've played that game. Cheesedude (talk • contribs) 03:14, November 11, 2012 (UTC)