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@hatguy12 His name in the original Japanese was コーゼン・ウァイセツ, (Kouzen Uaisetsu) which is a blatant pun on 公然わいせつ (Kouzen Waisetsu) which is Japanese for "public indecency" or "indecent exposure" or whatever term your respective country uses for that.
He's a minor character that only appears in this volume and tbh I quite like the way it was localized as "Stark Neykid" in the spirit of the joke. A ton of characters in this series have extremely silly names, so this one's just another example of the author having fun with it, a joke for the readers while people in-universe think it's just a perfectly ordinary name. I mean, heck, Orphen mentioned one of Childman's students by the name "Forte Puckingham" in this very volume and that's not even a localization that's straight up his name (フォルテ・パッキンガム) which is also a joke on "Buckingham Palace" which is バッキンガム宮殿 in Japanese.
Man, I really like the climax of this volume and the foreshadowing by Phonoghoulous at the end. I've already read most of the volumes in Japanese (huge fan of the series and probably one of the people most excited to see it localized), and I'm quite enjoying the translation so far. The afterwords must be hell to deal with because the author tends to drop in wrestling/boxing/MMA jokes and references from the 90s and they're always very silly and nonsensical with very little context.
Next up is volume 4 I guess, and without spoiling anything, anyone who's seen the anime will recognize a lot of the plot of it (although it was HEAVILY edited because they decided to adapt Volume 1 into an entire 24 episode season lol). Can't wait to see how it turns out!
