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Funny I was thinking something similar in how a Japanese player feels about the ship girls names. It's different for non-native speakers since it's all Japanese to us even Bismarck sounds like an acceptable girl name to non-german speakers. But reverse it and start using English ship names and it can sound odd to name girls that. For example the Iowa class BB I can see Iowa or Missouri passing as a girl name but Kentucky? Wisconsin? I’ll be like “Hey wonna grab a bit to eat with Kentucky and Wisconsin?”. Wouldn’t it be the same to a Japanese speaker so it’ll be like “Wow Blizzard (Fubuki) really admires Red Castle (Akagi)”

I don’t know, is that how native Japanese process the names? Or do they just kinda ignore the literal translation and just use it as a name for that particular character? I mean it’s kinda hard for me to see Kentucky as a girl name without thinking KFC but maybe if one uses it long enough the name will just naturally get associated to the character.

I think Haruna is a very nice sounding name also Yura. Hibiki is a proper girl name and perhaps Akatsuki?