Yeah, I think so. I think Belldandy and Keiichi are a bit too...I guess you can't call it normal, but they aren't silly enough to call their kids that. But as I said, Hercules wouldn't be so bad. It's just so obviously European that I doubt it.

Hercules and Hades? Looks like that won't fit to their parents names(if possible)....:bg:

No kidding. What would you call them?

Okaaaaay, We got Dandelion, Konnichi, Hercules, Hades and Yuck . That's a start _____________ I think. (wow) I'm a little lost for words. (wow) Hmmmm.(wow) D and K, H and H and Y .(wow) All you regular guys , Reiyuka-chan,Peng-san, Asgard-Loyd, Holybell, and all who HAVE answered this thread. DOMO ARIGATO GOZAIMAS! Now excuse me a minute, ( Let's see, what did Reiyuka-chan say to do at a moment like this ? Oh, yeah.) 1,2,3,4,5,6, aw, heck with it _________HEY GUYS! Any of the 300+ members of this site that DON'T usually talk on this forum want to get in on this PLEASE?! I mean, For Pete's sake, YUCK?! ( lol ---just kidding) (^_^)

:baps Jimmy: Silly. I think that Clotho for a girl and Norvi for a guy aren't that much out of the question.

haha.......lol. jimmy wants to know I guess.

Something I read in a newsletter from an american living in Japan, about his children:
If they were born in japan thier names would have to be derived from a government approved list of names, usually two characters from a list of a little over 2200 kanji.

Gah...,now that's silly...why on earth would they want to do that?

I reckon if that guy is unlucky enough, the 2 words will made out to be undesirable..... :)

ow i am lucky my name isnt that >_>

What are some examples of these jap names?

What why do that? Are are some examples, I also want to know too.

Apparently the approved list of kanji was put in place to help avoid confusion when trying to pronounce peoples names. There are around 50,000 kanji and the standard for literacy in japan is "only" 10,000. That leaves a large number of obscure kanji that parents could inflict thier childern with, kanji which most people wouldn't understand. Still, combining 2 0f 2200 kanji results in over 4,800,000 possible combinations.... for argument's sake say half of the combinations are unlucky, too weird, or in some way undesirable, that's over two million names.. can you think of that many different names in your language?

a long (but by no means complete) list of japanese names spelled in romanji can be found here:
http://business.baylor.edu/Phil_VanAuken/JapaneseNames.html

That's terribly complicated, but not so bad anyway. Pretty cool. And you're right, I can't think of two million names in my language. I'm not sure if there are that much originally dutch names, actually. Oh well.

so thats why....to avoid confusion when foreigners pronouncing their names.