Sabrblade said:
Someone outta check the Mixx/Tokyopop manga to verify if true or false.
I looked at the Book 7 recap, where Naoko actually started writing down character names under the small doodles, and on the "civilian" section, it says, Itto Asanuma, Melvin, Andy, and Molly. I'll have to go through my one-chapter comics of the Dark Kingdom Arc to see if Melvin Butler appears. In the manga, Umino and Naru stopped appearing in the Dream Arc, right?
Edit - No recaps except for Mixx's in the one-chapter comics.
Morinden said:
Wikimoon writes his dub name as "Melvin Butlers", and claims it's from the Mixx manga - maybe we should edit Wikimoon?
I say give up on Wikimoon, it's chock-full of inaccuracies, it uses suuuch an outdated version of Wikia, and it hasn't been touched in forever. We have sailormoon.wikia.com now.
Morinden said:
Actually, "Melvin Gurio" is not only a horrible mishmash of English and Japanese, but also wrong, as "Gurio" is his given name, not his surname. BTW, my signature is an example of "Melvin Gurio" used on a card in the Sailor Moon CCG.
I think for names in the 1990s dub, we should use a system like this.
Most recent episode of '90s English dub (Some exceptions, like Uranus / Neptune / Pluto Planet Power); for characters, same rule here if given a first name or a first and last name.
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Mixx's translation of the manga if not given a last name, or if not given a name at all.
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Guardians of Order Sailor Moon materials if not given a last name, or if not given a name at all.
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Sailor Moon novels if not given a last name, or if not given a name at all.
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Japanese original if not given a last name, or if not given a name at all.
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Other Japanese materials to fill in any other names.
So using this system, Darien's friend is still Kenibayashi, and we get Molly Baker and Melvin Gurio, but also Mayumi Baker, Shine Aqua Illusion, and Kenji Tsukino. I think the only downside is we'd get Moon Scepter Activation instead of Moon Scepter Elimination.