Yeah I’d name him Ryu if it was my favorite name, which it isnt. All the people saying “omg he’s not japanese”, you do realize most of the names on your family tree arent american right? Their imports from the rest of the world, whether they’re Irish, Italian, Spanish, Scottish, German, etc. So yeah, to me its fine. But then, I’d rather have something different than to be named something plain and overused like William or James, bleh.
I had a friend tell me she went to school with some guy whose parents named him “Sundance.” As in that was his FIRST name. Apparently he was a good guy, but that didnt’ stop me from being like
Of course we could all just name our sons and daughters BOB. That would be so American and “correct”. (Sorry Bob, no offense). We could all just go to work 9-5, do what we are told, and be exactly the same.
The more I think of it, my son will not have a “normal” name. I vote for unique, and if the Interwebs trolls don’t like it they can tell it to his fist.
I’m sure you are right, but who gives a sheet. Like someone said before, most names come from somewhere else, but we are bound to pronounce them differently. I think it’s funny how so many people here respect Japanese culture but are too in-the-box to integrate it into Merica. Who cares as long as you like it.
Anime is about to ruin an entire generation of kids. Future SRKers named La’Goku and ShinDaequan complaining about one button hadoukens in SF7 are too difficult.