The PM originally asked why we went with Buster Hercules, even though the Greek pronunciation is clearly Herakles, the Greek version of the name.
takenoko wrote:Heh, you're not the only one who noticed that. This is a case where the Japanese/Greek pronunciation doesn't work. From what I can tell, the Japanese consistently use the Herakles Beetle pronunciation for Hercules Beetle, which is what the mecha is named after. And I wasn't able to find any examples of Herakles Beetle, which is why I decided to ignore pronunciation to go the intended meaning this time. This was noticed in the QC stage and I gave the same explanation there too.
Good observation though. I don't know how many of our viewers actually pay attention to the subtleties of the language like that.