Thread: What do you like better? The English names or the Japanese names?

I prefer English names since they're easier to remember and pronounce, and they just sound better to me. There's tons of awesome ones and tones of simple ones yet they just feel so right. Then there are some English names that sound stupid like Sawk or Throh, but I stick with them anyway cause they're much easier to remember and pronounce.

English names, but it annoys me how many of the English names ruin the original intentions of the Pokemon names. Weavile, for example.

I love Japanese names more, yet I use English names. *sigh* I'm a hypocrite.
In my opinion: Satoshi<Ash, Kasumi<Misty, Takeshi<Brock, Haruka<May... and so on, so forth, because I mostly chat about the characters not Pokemon. I think the Japanese Pokemon names are pretty good for the most part (except those Gen I names).

English, but only because I'm a native english speaker, and the english names provide puns/origins for the Pokemon's names.

Its on a case by case basis for me however I prefer the Japanese names over English ones as stated before some dubbed English names are terrible (Sawk and Throh) and I prefer original meaning to the names.

That depends on whether we're talking about the anime or the video games. In the anime, I have no real preference. English, Japanese- it doesn't matter. In the video games, though, I much prefer the English names. They're just better. /opinion

I use both when it comes to Gen V, because Gen V is the only one I've followed since its Japanese announcement, but it depends on what I'm discussing. With the games, I prefer English names because I played the English version. When it comes to the anime, I use Japanese names when discussing a Japanese episode, and English names when I'm referencing the dub.

When it comes to what I like better, it's on a case-by-case basis. I like "Vaporeon" better than "Showers," and "Klink" better than "Giaru." But I like "Washibon" better than "Rufflet."

I love the Japanese names, but I prefer to use the English names because they are easier for me to remember. theres only a few Japanese ones that I can remember right now like Tsutarja and Mijumaru and Pokabu and a few others. Some of the Gen V ones are the only ones I know because I followed the announcements of it and everything. I do have a goal to try to learn the Japanese names of the Pokemon though, eventually.

I use mostly English names, since they are the ones I'm using in general. However I like Japanese names too, and can also remember them. For the pronouncing part, Japanese is actually easier for us, since Finnish is way closer to Japanese than English pronouncing. I usually get to use Japanese names only with my Japanese friends [especially when talking with Junichi Masuda, I enjoy using Japanese names, haha : D] But I can't say which ones are better. I must still say however that I remember some GenV names better in Japanese.

French names ! I don't care one bit if this isn't a choice XD

I prefer the English names because I'm not a hipster because they're ENGLISH, which is the language I speak, and what most people speak on this forum. I think after the English names are announced, everybody (that speaks English) should stop using the Japanese names.

Japanese ones mainly because each has a meaning to it's name that doesn't always carry over to English.

I prefer to use the english ones, because people recognize it better.
But the japanese ones are by far better and I like them more.

To be honest, guess I'll begin to use the Japanese ones.
I'm not a native english speaker, so I have no reasons to use the english names.

Also, japanese language sounds better than english.

English ones for me. They're easier to understand and I don't like a lot of the Japanese ones like Thunder or Fire.

What really annoys me is when people use English for one Gen and Japanese for another. At least be consistent.

English names for the characters because usually there's some sort of pun involved (Brock is rock, Misty is mist, Cilan is cilantro). The Japanese names may have this too, but I don't know Japanese so any puns that they do have don't make any sense to me.
As for the individual Pokémon, I usually prefer the English names for the same reason... but what I don't like is how a lot of the names, when written in English, do not give any indication on how to pronounce it. Especially when they use a "c". Like, "Celebi" looks like it could be pronounced "Selebi" or "Kelebi" (I always knew it was "Selebi" though because I was familiar with the Japanese name), "Arceus" looks like it could be pronounced as "Arseus" or "Arkeus" (I've always pronounced it "Arkeus"... which is the official pronunciation but no one seems to say it that way). When the name is written in Japanese, there's only one way to read it so you always know that you're saying it right.