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    • Terrence
      Terrence Premium Member last edited by Terrence

      So I am really bad with names, and apparently I'm not alone. I see a lot of discussion on anime videos where people refer to a character as "the red head chick". Between volumes, heck, between chapters, I forget names. I figure we could try to list the names we remember from LNs, make this a bit of a repository for when you want to remember a name. If you want to add additional info below the name that you'd like to remember, like nicknames or special powers, feel free to do so.

      You don't have to follow my format, but basically I'm putting ones that I don't know / remember but want to in parentheses for now.

      I'm not going to use super caution with these as they're just names, but if you think something is a major spoiler, hide it behind a tag.

      Infinite Dendrogram:
      Characters
      Ray Starling - Bro Bear Shu - Marie - Rook - Babi - Audrey Hepburn - Marilyn Monroe - Hugo - Cyco Cocytus - Figaro - Liliana Grandria - Count Gideon - Aschbaray Gideon - (Eastern dude, master Wangshi, Xunlu?) - (Elizabeth II?) - (Governor of Caldea?) - (Liliana's little sis)

      Places
      Dryfe - (Altea?) - (Caldea?)

      Monsters
      (Gardranda?) - Demi-Dragon Worm

      Abilities / Equipment / Items
      Like a Flag Flying the Reverse - Counter Absorption - Silver

      Grimgar:
      Characters
      Haruhiro - Yume - Ranta - Moguzo - Merry - Shihoru - Manato - (Nana and Popo? Aren't those Ice Climbers? I think it's actually Nono and Lala?)

      Places
      Dusk Realm - (Night Realm?) - (What's the name of the starting town; oh noes!)

      Monsters
      (Help me remember any of them; I know there were Gremlins... Yes; there were cultists and white giants?)

      Abilities
      Thanks Slash - Exhaust - (Haru's wrap around the enemy tech) - (Haru's overpower the enemy with slashes attack) - (Swat?) - (Shihoru's Paralyzation tech) - (Shihoru's summon) - (Merry's Great Heal) - ETC.

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      • Drone205
        Drone205 Premium Member last edited by

        Welp at least you should not have problems with Goblin Slayer.

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        • Terrence
          Terrence Premium Member @Drone205 last edited by Terrence

          @drone205 said in Help Me Remember Names: List Light Novel (And Other Japanese Media) Names:

          Welp at least you should not have problems with Goblin Slayer.

          Hall Girl is my favorite character. Midget Mage is great too. Pointy Ears with anvil chest is cool too. =P

          Goblin Slayer:
          Characters
          Goblin Slayer - Guild Girl - Dwarf Shaman - Cow Girl - Lizard Priest - High Elf Archer - Priestess - Sword Maiden - Witch - (Female Knight?)

          Places
          (Cow Girl's Current Village?) - (Water City located in the middle of the country, trade route with Sewer?) - (Adventurers' Guild?)

          (I'm in the middle of volume 2, stuck in the sewer).

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            Hyferzftw @Terrence last edited by

            @terrence the priest dude's name was Manato I think, also Nono and Lala i think is correct.

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              Hyferzftw @Terrence last edited by

              @terrence got to volume 3 and stopped reading. Needed a break. will pick it up again next year maybe.

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                paulnamida @Terrence last edited by

                @terrence

                Babbie = Babi, short for Babylon iirc
                Psyco = Cyco, short for Cocytus

                And Female Knight is fine, but you're forgetting Spearman, Heavy Swordsman, Sword Maiden, Apprentice Priestess and Rookie Warrior

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                  Hyferzftw last edited by

                  The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind!
                  characters:
                  Suimei - Reiji - Mizuki - Felmenia - Lefille - Titania
                  Places
                  I can't remember :(

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                  • Terrence
                    Terrence Premium Member @Hyferzftw last edited by Terrence

                    @hyferzftw said in Help Me Remember Names: List Light Novel (And Other Japanese Media) Character / Setting Names:

                    Places
                    I can't remember :(

                    I gotta add the place names for Dendro that I remember... Vaguely too (Dryfe... Caldia? Altea? That Eastern region?). The dude with the Eastern name and title is confusing for me too. Xun....Lo? Master Wangshi?). The characters surrounding him seem important too, so I want to learn their names when next we meet them. We haven't heard much about most of the royalty either (Elizabeth the 2nd Princess in line? Count such and such?).

                    @neoankara said in Help Me Remember Names: List Light Novel (And Other Japanese Media) Character / Setting Names:

                    Rokujouma

                    I need these. Gonna take a bit still to place the name with the face though. The ones I know when I see them are Koutarou, Theia, Clan, Ruth, Sanae, and Yurika. I'm going to guess Harumi is the girl in his crafts after school activity, Shizuka is the landlady, and Kiriha is the below surface dweller.

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                    • NeoAnkara
                      NeoAnkara last edited by NeoAnkara

                      Rokujouma

                      Character:
                      Koutarou - Harumi - Theia - Maki - Clan - Kiriha - Ruth - Shizuka - Yurika - Sanae - Alaia - Elle - Kenji - Nana - Kanae - Shiori

                      Weapon/Object:
                      Karama - Korama - Blue Knight - Cradle - Signaltin - Saguratin - Nalfalaren

                      Place:
                      Folsaria - Forthorthe

                      Enemy side:

                      spoiler
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                      • Terrence
                        Terrence Premium Member @paulnamida last edited by

                        @paulnamida said in Help Me Remember Names: List Light Novel (And Other Japanese Media) Character / Setting Names:

                        @terrence

                        Babbie = Babi, short for Babylon iirc
                        Psyco = Cyco, short for Cocytus

                        I listen to the Text To Speech which pronounces her name Psycho, but I thought maybe it was short for Sycophant or something. That's another reason to start this thread.

                        you're forgetting Sword Maiden

                        Her name got lost in the shuffle of my post, but it is there. I'll add the others later though, thanks. 👍

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                            • Paul Nebeling
                              Paul Nebeling Premium Member @NeoAnkara last edited by Paul Nebeling

                              @neoankara Don't forget that Theia, Clan, Ruth, and Elle are all nicknames. So are Mackensie and Makinley (his sister). Also, Maki did mention Crimson's real name (Karen, I think.) once or twice, but most of the other girls of Darkness Rainbow are only know by thier color. And just to confuse things, some folks call people by their last name, Sakuraba-senpai, for example, while others will use their first name, generally Koutarou with varying honorifics. Maki is probably the worst, being referred to as Aiki, Maki, or Indigo, depending on who is speaking.

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                              • NeoAnkara
                                NeoAnkara @Paul Nebeling last edited by

                                @paul-nebeling That's just the one most commonly revered by other character. Like only Clan call Theia by her first name. Though the only one that are about even in difference is Harumi since about half call her that and half call her Sakuraba-senpai. Also talking about nickname there are too many like Glasses for Clan or Kii for Kiriha.

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                                • flarecde
                                  flarecde Premium Member last edited by

                                  Purple's name was mentioned as well in one of the later books, but I forget what it was (why isn't it in this thread so I can remember and post it in... wait...).

                                  I always have trouble remembering Japanese names. I don't know why. They tend to run together for me in my head.

                                  ~ flarecde
                                  Reality is nothing; Perception is everything.

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                                  • Paul Nebeling
                                    Paul Nebeling Premium Member @flarecde last edited by Paul Nebeling

                                    @flarecde Need a freaking encyclopedia to keep track of everything in Rokujouma.

                                    P.S. Doesn't Mackenzie sometimes get called Glasses too?

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                                    • NeoAnkara
                                      NeoAnkara last edited by

                                      Crimson is Karen and Purple is Marina. Though the one I really forget is Underground People boss name.

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                                      • Terrence
                                        Terrence Premium Member last edited by Terrence

                                        Konosuba [up to volume 2]
                                        Characters
                                        Kazuma - Megumin - Aqua - (Thief Girl) - (Idiot drunk who challenges Kazuma to a party swap; Dust?) - Eris - Darkness

                                        Powers
                                        Expulozen! - Steal - Detect Enemy - (Hide from Enemies skill) - (Aqua heals)

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                                          paulnamida last edited by

                                          Oh, so you mostly use text to speech, no wonder it gets hard to get names down to memory. I find it harder to focus on characters when listening to audiobooks, for some reason I can't commit them to memory in those cases, I can recall the story just fine, but the characters' names evade me like hell. It's one of the reasons I'm not much of a fan of audio-books.

                                          But well, at least we're not getting stuff on the level of A 100 Years of Solitude, where a third of the characters share one name, the second third share another name, and only the last third have individual names. That novel was hell for me.

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                                          • Terrence
                                            Terrence Premium Member @paulnamida last edited by Terrence

                                            @paulnamida said in Help Me Remember Names: List Light Novel (And Other Japanese Media) Character / Setting Names:

                                            But well, at least we're not getting stuff on the level of A 100 Years of Solitude, where a third of the characters share one name, the second third share another name, and only the last third have individual names. That novel was hell for me.

                                            Not as bad, but we do have Juna and Juno. We have at least two MC with the same name too (iirc, it's the dude from Mixed Bathing... And I can't remember the other series with a dude that shares the name; was it Touhya? I forget).

                                            I think volume 4 of Dendrogram has two characters nicknamed Liz (one is a slime monster, and the other is a princess)? Just double checked, they call Elizabeth "Ellie" and the slime monster Liz.

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