Sayori Neko Works Characters

In the tags, it lists the two characters as chocolat_(sayori) and vanilla_(sayori). However, on page 8 of Neko Paradise, Sayori actually spells their names in English letters as Chocola and Vanella. How do we go about changing these?

This sounds more like an artist not knowing how to spell foreign words, honestly. I'm inclined to leave as is, especially Vanilla.

It looked Engrish-y (or Chinglish-y in this case), so I tried to fix the romanization a little when I made the tags. バニラ -> Vanilla is easy to see. I used the French word for "chocolate" for ショコラ because of the soft "ch".

jxh2154 said:
This sounds more like an artist not knowing how to spell foreign words, honestly. I'm inclined to leave as is, especially Vanilla.

Yeah, I would agree with you if they were talking about the actual flavours, however, they're names and names can be spelled various ways. I'm still thinking we should change these to how Sayori had them.. Here's the page I'm talking about:

http://i50.tinypic.com/mcxm3d.jpg

And, yeah, @Aurelia, the french thing was clever ^_^

Ichigo69 said: Yeah, I would agree with you if they were talking about the actual flavours, however, they're names and names can be spelled various ways.

But they're names that are almost certainly intended to reference the flavors.

Now if "Vanella" is a legitimate spelling of "vanilla" in some non-English language, that changes everything and I'll definitely alias it. But at the moment it just looks like Engrish... which we don't usually take for tags if it's a discernible English word. Or French, in the case of Chocolat. Although I'm a bit more wiling to accept Chocola than Vanella if push came to shove.

But Vanella is, as you say yourself, a reference to, not the flavour itself. It's like any other name created as a corruption of and a clear reference to another word, but not the word as such. Cf. pokemons for an instance of a systematic use of that.

葉月 said: But Vanella is, as you say yourself, a reference to, not the flavour itself. It's like any other name created as a corruption of and a clear reference to another word, but not the word as such. Cf. pokemons for an instance of a systematic use of that.

It's not uncommon for us to "fix" romanizations of non-Japanese words when they were clearly going for a real word/name, though, so this didn't seem out of line with what we usually do.

Yes, but here I don't think it's a romanisation; rather it's a katakanised Western-style name. So as much as I tend not to believe artists, here it looks both plausible and reasonable, thus my vote for keeping it the way the artist spells it.

Just noticed that it's spelled "Vanilla" by the artist in another (recent, 2010 calendar) image: post #581329

jxh2154 said:
Just noticed that it's spelled "Vanilla" by the artist in another (recent, 2010 calendar) image: post #581329

Yeah, that's the one she's selling at C77. Chocola is still spelled the same, though......

create alias chocolat_(sayori) -> chocola_(sayori)

Link to request

Chocola is undoubtedly official. Still used in recent work Nekopara:

post #1851675
http://www.nekopara.com/page_ch/ch_01.html

EB said:

create alias chocolat_(sayori) -> chocola_(sayori)

Link to request

Chocola is undoubtedly official. Still used in recent work Nekopara:

post #1851675
http://www.nekopara.com/page_ch/ch_01.html

Done