Talk:Kunou Seishiro

Character name
Can someone explain why he is everywhere called Kunou, whereas his "title" consists from kanji meaning "nine" (Kyu, Ku) and "emperor" (Kou, Ou), which derivates from name of his fighting style, basically "Seishiro (who mastered style of) Nine Emperors". To my understanding it should be Kukou/Kyukou Seishiro. Also name of style should be Kyukou Tenshoy Ryuu which means Nine Emperors (or Nine Rulers) Ascension Art. Tenshou basicaly means "rising up, to heavens", as the whole style is around depicting revolving of hot and cold water, where water rises, water falls, water makes stream etc.. Black Shroud 08:12, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll explain. This is the official romanization and I've checked various other sources that states it's "Kunou". While your romanization isn't particularly wrong in the literal sense (in fact, it's very correct), it's just not the way how SNK chose to roman it. Kuki's fighting style is also spelled in English as "Kunou Tensho-Ryu" in the game's movie gallery section. The same characters in the fighting style (九皇) are the same one's used for Seishiro's alternate name. The image on the right is a scan of the pages I used in the All about SNK book. Please forgive the quality -since it is late where I live- but I didn't want to leave you hanging before I went to sleep. The hirugana for 九皇 distinctively states "くのう". The Japanese language sure is funny like that but SNK's even funnier for choosing to pronounce it that way. Artistic license I guess. :/ Sake neko 11:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Just struck my head, why they made it "Kunou", its probably melded "Ku no Ou", because japanese like to read such word constructions with "no" (の) while originally "no" isnt written. And "Ku no Ou" is very suitable reading for 九皇 Black Shroud 20:16, 30 January 2009 (UTC)