#it’s also just weeaboo behavior overall to use the Japanese pronunciation of an English word while not speaking Japanese

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Why are so many western fans spelling Mob’s name as “Mobbu”

Even in the Japanese version his name is Mob you just can’t end a word on a hard B consonant like that in Japanese as all words end in a vowel sound or an N.

It isn’t even a proper romaji transliteration. His name is モブ in Japanese, not モッブ. It would have to be the latter to be “Mobbu” in romaji, if you wanted to transliterate the katakana for his nickname it would be “Mobu” or “Mob” depending on how you want to go about the transliteration. Most Japanese speakers would just write it as Mob when using alphabet letters.

It’s perhaps a weird pet peeve, but to me it just reads as people using “engrish” and comes off as more of a mockery than trying to actually stay true to the original imo. You don’t see people calling Edward Elric “Edowarudo Eriku”. It’s just a weird thing to do.