Talk:Appliyama 470

Names
Erena is explicilty romanized as Erena in a poster in episode 17, and why are we using "Alice" for a Japanese girl? 16:11, March 4, 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll move back Erena, but Alice in Wonderland? Lanate (talk) 16:29, March 4, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yuno Gasai is not called Juno just because that's what she's named after. 16:56, March 4, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I moved it back. Lanate (talk) 17:02, March 4, 2017 (UTC)
 * Her Apptter username is alicewhite470. Does this count? Then again, she also uses a different spelling for her full name there, writting everything in hiragana. And I saw Japanese actors using Twitter names that were different from their official romanizations before, but I can't remember any specific case. 01:46, April 8, 2017 (UTC)/22:46, April 7, 2017 (Brasília)
 * That same poster is fully shown in episode 36, and the romanization is moot. Question resolved. 03:43, June 25, 2017 (UTC)

Etymologies
Given how Appli Monsters likes to name its characters after computer terms or related people and characters, and Eri's name might be a reference to, do we want to claim Arisu's name is a double reference to not just Alice in Wonderland, but also to , a chatterbot inspired by ELIZA?
 * Also, do we want to claim Erena might be named after Helena, the name of two characters of  (one of them a robot), a play that not only is literally about a robot takeover, but also invented the word "robot" (even though the meaning in the play in more similar to the concept of a clone)?
 * Sure, the katakana doesn't match the one used for Helena in the Japanese version of R.U.R., but Erena is an actual Japanese name, while "Herena" doesn't seem to be, as far as I could find. Besides, "Eri" also doesn't match the katakana for ELIZA, but is what everyone is guessing for the etymology, even the Japanese. 03:43, June 25, 2017 (UTC)