Talk:Rou/@comment-26949805-20150914232637/@comment-4784862-20150915150123

Yeah, what I said was a bit...misleading.

It's a "name reading" but it's not reading it like you'd read...say...Kichi's name (as in  the 'special' reading for names instead of the 'default' reading for the kanji) ミノ吉, which w/o name reading it would simply be Minoyo, but it's actually Minokichi due to using "name reading".

In the case of Rou's true name they give the exact pronunciation on top of the kanji to say "Yeah, this is the name, don't use name readings or anything like that". What the guy above actually did was simply run it through the "Name Reading" piece kanji by kanji, when the author gave precisely what the name was...which is a bit different from the name reading itself (it's how the kanji are read outloud normally, no special reading or anything like that).