Please.  I don't get this thread.  As far as I'm concerned, both sides
have aired their opinions up to the fullest.  My PhP 0.70, then I quit.

I'm pretty darn sure that the "u"'s have been explained quite thoroughly:
they are the product of one (or more) styles of Romanization.  They are
all correct (Ukyo, Ukyou, Souun,   _ Soun, Tendo, Tendou).  [I would prefer
to use the ones with long o sounds o myself, but that's me.]  In any case,
which ever set you might use, be consistent (Would the Tendou doujou be in 
Toukyou?) and check a dictionary (jishou) for your spellings.  (If only the
world were full of Japanese compilations... I refer to the memory collection,
myself.)

So please, if you must check the names, go to the source... buy/borrow/beg/
steal a copy of the original manga (or the memory collection), and have
someone 
translate those little hiragana characters to the side, and stick to that.

Hey... is that Emperor Stephen ending the thread?  I guess that's it, then.
Erg... sorry, y'all.  Missed my Japanese class this mornin'...

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