Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4435241-20140408192659/@comment-1457172-20140709162930

So...Taiyou's name is Sol Daystar.

...Did something happen? Because ever since Inazuma Eleven 3, the renamings for hissatsu and characters haven't been as close to the Japanese versions as they used to be (though, the character dub names were generally not that good, anyway). That would be fine, but some of them seem silly and almost uneccessarily changed. Whirly-Whirly and Easy Breezy are great examples of this for hissatsu.

As for characters...well, this game has a bunch of unnecessary renames such as Micheal Ballzack and Jean-Pierre Lapin, but...honestly, I didn't mind those as much. They're unnecessarily foreign for  bunch of Japanese kids, but when the originals gave us plain names like Mark Evans and Kevin Dragonfly, I think that by comparison, these dub names are just more fun. I more look at the FFI for really unnecessary names. Why change Fideo Ardena? Why change Rococo Urupa? '''Why change Keith to Keits? '''The FFI always had fitting names for the characters, for the most part, so it really seems unnecessary for them to change these names because there's really no point.