On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Richard David Beaubien wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Benjamin Franz wrote:

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So, in my opinion, the best romanizations to use are:

Ryouga, Tendou, Kunou, and Ukyou.

You can thank Viz for the "dropped 'u'" versions floating around. As far
as I can tell, their spellings are simply 'the names look more natural to
an English speaker this way.' Viz has always been, ah, _liberal_ with
their translations.

Actually it's more the Hepburn Romanji system that drops the u then
anything bye Viz per say. After all Pionner did drop the ou from
Ryoko(Ryouko..). In this system all double values are dropped and using a
1996 Kana table Ryouga turned into Ryoga....

Of course I'm probably off base here...Any one with more English/Japanese
experience care to shed some light here..

You're close. ;-)
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The version with macrons (' ') is Hepburn (modified slightly, actually,
since the original Hepburn used circumflexes ('^') instead of macrons for 
repeated vowel sounds. You only get "missing 'u'" from Hepburn if you
forget the macrons.

-- 
Benjamin "pun? where?" Franz