Is Soma Cruz a common Japanese name?
Yes.
His name is written as 来須 蒼真 (Kurusu Sōma) in Japanese, not sure how common it is but doesn't seem out of place.
>>748393590Oh so it's some localizer nonsense. Kill all localizers.
>>748392897Some say he Romanian-Japanese while Simon Belmont is Franco-Hungarian and Dracula is Swedish.
exchange student
>>748393739It was a localization, but as far as I remember the director came up with Cruz first and then they turned that into Kurusu for Japan. I'm not sure where I read that and I'm too lazy to look up a source.
>>748393834with a childhood friend
>>748392897His last name is Kurusu in JP
What if Soma was from Mexico? Cruz is a real Mexican surname.
>>748393953Nah, Mexican people are retarded. Cruz is also a name in most Spanish speaking countries. You'd know this if you weren't a retarded wetback.
>>748394085Nobody gives a shit about other spanish speaking countries lmao.
>>748394191Sure buddy. If you had like a little more IQ, you'd know the reference to Cruz in the game is from "cross", which is derived from the Latin word, crux. You're retarded though, so it probably goes over your head, and you don't get the references in the game at all. Now be a good lil faggot and reply with something stupider.
>>748394505Nobody cares about dead languages like Latin or whatever the pedo church uses.
>>748394729I knew you'd reply with something stupider.
>>748394897Nothing more stupid than posting /tv/ slop.
Get a room you two
>>748394963You don't even understand the meme. Sad.
>>748395007I'm willing if he's willing.
>>748395071>/tv/ slopper is also an AI slopper HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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>>748393739>literally the phonetic jap pronunciation of "soma cruz">REEEE muh localizersim surprised people like you can even fucking read
>>748393834also this
>>748393780>Dracula is SwedishThat explains a lot.
The true final boss of Aria of Sorrow was very fun . I only had one healing item so I had to get gooder than I expected to have to get.
>>748392897Exchange student in 2035Its fine
>>748393739Not at all. It's the opposite, the name Soma Cruz was chosen and then Japanese ateji were used to find a suitable name. It's a commonality in Japan, they do it often for countries and characters. Let me give an example:Americaアメリカ - A-me-ri-ka^This is written using katakana, you will note the characteristic shape of these figures. This script is used for a number of things, but commonly to write foreign words and to emphasize or do the equivalent of typing in all caps.亜米利加 - A-me-ri-ka亜 - A - Asia米 - Me - Rice利 - Ri - Profit加 - Ka - Add (to)^This is written using kanji, they took the foreign word (America) and then looked for appropriate kanji whose pronunciation matched these vowels. It's really quite an interesting system, the depth of wordplay one can have in writings is quite tremendous.
>>748392897>gay feminist vampire shitno thank you
>>748393884I found the source, it’s from an old "Nintendo Dream" interview that site called shmuplations saved.>>748396715That’s just a localization thing apparently, in the original Japanese Soma is supposed to be from the same village as Mina
>>748392897Did you just not pay attention to anything in the game and rushed to /v/ to be spoonfed? It literally says he's an exchange student
>>748392897Yes CRUZ the typical Japanese surname
>>748393739based retard
>>748397585Yeah, ironically, my wife, Cruz Silva, is also the Dracula equivalent of her game.
>>748397073Sounds retarded and overcomplicated for the sake of it
>>748397825Is she Japanese
>>748397985Sure, why not?>b-but the skin colorOkinawan.
>>748397396>>748392897>cruz = cross>soma = sum>you use a cross + to add upBRAVO IGA
>>748397828>overcomplicated for the sake of itits pronounced "japan"
>>748397828zoomer energy
>>748394505EOPniggers can't into the superior Romance languages, they start having seizures at the slight usage of diacritics lmãoI wish this board had turned into /vint/ so I could finally filter burgernigger flags
>>748397073been studying japanese for a while and I don't think I was familiarized that much with the concept of ateji, thank you anon, you learn something new everyday>>748397396even if in the japanese version Soma is japanese I'm now thinking in my head of maybe an ancestor of his being hispanic, who ended up becoming naturalized japanese over the course of time, cute headcanon even if a little bit silly
