Sailor Moon vs Sailormoon.

[Neo Queen Serenity]

Which spelling do you prefer to use?

 

[Danzig87]

Sailor Moon.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

The former. The latter looks too much like "Superman." lol

 

[redneonglow]

Sailor Moon.

This should've been a poll. I've posted one here: (Poll) Spelling: Sailor Moon vs. Sailormoon

 

[MariaTenebre]

It's Sailor Moon that is how it is in English.

 

[JayD22460]

Nobody seriously uses the Sailormoon spelling — that’s just a stylistic choice made for some Japanese products with English text from back in the 90s.

And Redneonglow: do we need two separate topics just because this could possibly work as a poll?

 

[sapphire91]

They simply used Sailormoon as there are no spaces in Japanese. There are some Japanese merch uding Princess Selenity or Three Rights, but nobody takes or use these seriously either.

 

[redneonglow]

And Redneonglow: do we need two separate topics just because this could possibly work as a poll?

I was hoping that this thread would move over since a poll is a better idea.

EDIT: Rika cauldroned the poll thread and said that NQS can edit the original to include a poll if she wants.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Rika cauldroned the poll thread and said that NQS can edit the original to include a poll if she wants.

I only locked that thread, which still remains in this subforum.

 

[Neo Queen Serenity]

Ok guys the thread now includes a poll.

 

[Sakuranbo]

I prefer Sailor Moon because it looks better and that it doesn't look like a bunch of letters being put together without space.

 

[Nadia]

While I agree, I remember years, probably decades ago, when fans, wanting to prove that they were true to the original Japanese version would insist on writing the names as "Sailormoon" (or worse yet," sailormoon") as that was the only proper way to render the names. The "justification" was that the names were never separated when referring to the characters and they hated the practice of referring to the names of the characters by their planets (like calling Sailor Jupiter "Jupiter"). Since according to them, the Japanese language did not have any spaces, neither should the romanization of those terms.

Sadly this horribly misguided influence has stuck in some fandoms, but that particular brand of...wrongness...didn't last in the Sailor Moon fandom.

 

[Sailor Moon~]

I always type Sailor Moon