Special:Badtitle/NS2001:Updates & News/@comment-28245851-20170608020411/@comment-27729796-20170610172752

Just want to voice my support of this decision here, it's been discussed among the staff many times in our Discord chat. Ultimately, not everyone visiting our Wiki is necessarily a member of the fandom, or would have been exposed to the fan romanisations of these names, and the fan translation of "End of Hope's Peak Academy". A lot of fans of DR (more than you would expect) have never played the games, and have only ever seen the anime. To that end, it's extremely likely that they would be looking for End of Hope's Peak High School, because that's the name on Funimation's website, on DVDs, and all other official English language material related to the anime.

End of Hope's Peak High School is the official name for the series, whether it gels with the games or not; the anime has it's own canon, because DRTA was translated before the translation for DR1 was finalised. This is common for MANY Japanese series where translations for different media are handled by different companies. Some wikis have entire pages and categories related to the differences in translation between different types of media, here's an example on the Jojo Bizarre Adventure's Wiki. In Funimation's case, they romanise with Oh instead of Oo, Ou, or Ō, all of which are different ways of Romanising the same sound. In DRTA, Sakura's surname is spelt "Ohgami", and in fact, you will also find this Romanisation on many pieces of official Japanese merchandise, but because game canon (NISA) has higher canon precedance than anime canon in this regard, her name on the Wiki is spelt Ogami. In the case of these characters, like Ruruka, we have no other canon to go by other than the anime, so Funimation's subs, and the official Japanese DR3 website, are how we determine what is official. A ny subtitles which feature "Ando" or "Andō" were very likely fansubs, which we obviously do not support except when they're the only option available. Ultimately, it had to be discussed whether it's acceptable for us to keep hosting fan spellings and names for things over actual official spellings and names, and it really doesn't seem appropriate to do so, hence, this change.

Obviously, outside the wiki you're welcome to refer to DR3 and these characters however you wish, because obviously, Hope's Peak Academy is the most common term and we're not expecting to change the fandom in any way, just the way that these things are refered to on this encyclopedia, where we're meant to deal exclusively with facts. The redirects to the fan names will still exist, you will still be able to navigate to them that way, and any page that refers to Hope's Peak Academy that *isn't* related to the anime will use the game-canon name of Hope's Peak Academy. But while there's some flexibility in translation and spelling when we don't have an official translation for something, for this, we do.