With less than 70 days for the release of the English release of HeartGold and SoulSilver, many speculations come up in our minds, one of them is Kotone's English name. Many people call her "big head" or "big cat", but c'mon! there must be a true name.

I think she will be called "Soul". What about you?

What about the episode with her? Once it's dubbed in English, we may have it.

That's a tough question. Big head seems to fit her appearance XP

I agree that she'll be called Soul, but that depends on the male characters name. Though a male called Heart would be weird
Maybe she'll be called Silver.

Kotone means, musical note or something like that so it will probably be Melody or Harmony.

Leaf wasn't named Green in the game canon. She was named Leaf. Thus, Kotone might be called Soul. I think something fitting a literal translation of her name might also be possible.

They've actually only been doing that since third generation (using real names) and Gold is still Gold. Kotone can still be Soul, Heart, or even Krystal if Nintendo's feeling lazy. Silver isn't an option since that's the name of the rival, and a translation into something that would be closer to Kotone in English would also fit. But it might not be direct or literal. (i.e Dawn = time of day when sun rises, Hikari = light, two slightly related terms that don't directly translate into the same thing)

Hmm, this is an interesting topic. I could see anything from Soul to Meoldy, so there are many different possibilities for names here.

They could use Kris again. That'd be lame, but they might.

Or perhaps something entirely different, just, at random?

Melody seems to be a nice fit to match Kotone (being 'Musical Note'). There are many possibilities. LiteTheIronMan has a point, it could be indirect or literal

I bet it'll be something completely random off the wall

like Katie or something.

Her name in the Manga is Soul, but, ironically, in-game rivals always seem to be named off of their anime name instead (May and Brent in RSE, Dawn and Lucas in DPP). Then again, did Brent or Lucas ever appear in the anime? I know Soul already has, but there's no dub yet.

By the way... What's the name of Gold going to be? His name in the manga was Gold, but I don't think he ever appeared in the Anime (except as Jimmy), and his name never defaulted. That's what different here, the names all have to default; you can't choose them.

Additional Notes:
1. Silver still won't have a translated name; we can name him.
2. Were Dawn and May not chosen, and we went with the Manga pattern (which is how the games themselves are named), they would instead be named Lady Beryl and Sapphire.

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What kind of name is Lyra?

I have given up my faith in PUSA choosing real names I mean Lyra doesn't even mean anything.

Although it's a slightly odd name, I'm alright with it.

Thread unlocked due to room for healthy discussion and due to a certain inquiry.

I also linked this thread to that random news post in PokeNews, link is here:

http://www.victoryroad.net/showthread.php?t=1839

Well I guess Lyra is better then the names they gave to the Rocket admins.

Just in case, I edited the title of this thread so that everyone can discuss what he wants.

Some of the new names for other places and characters have been revealed. (EDIT: This is a leak and as such is not confirmed)

A few of them are disappointing in my opinion, especially the Rocket Executive names, as now only half of them (as opposed to all in the originals) have the names of real-life rockets, to my knowledge. Also, Sinjoh ruins just sounds... wrong to me.

I agree. Sinjoh sounds terrible and weird for some reason. I understand that they wanted to combine Sinnoh and Johto, but...they should have just made another name; Sinohto maybe.

Ethan and Lyra, huh?

...Hmmm...Okay. Ethan's passable.

As for the Rocket names? I prefer them over the Japanese names.

Proton sounds awesome. Like an atom.
Archer sounds awesome. Like an archer.
Arianna is the only normal name. No comment.
Petrol sounds awesome. Like petroleum. Like a nuke.

better than....looker.
I seriously lol'd when I heard that name.

Lyra sounds natural. Soul honestly doesn't sound like a name. Lyra does.
Looker is just XD