I also have this tendancy to link a name to a particular character that I think 'epitomized' it or something. For instance, Rei will always be Ayanami Rei to me, no matter how many characters -- male or female -- go by the same name. For this reason, I irrationally expect each and every Rei in manga/anime-land to be emotionless and suicidal. Although, you could say Gals! and High School Kimengumi sort of stumped me on this one.
Ran is Shinichi Kudô's love interest in Detective Conan.
As for Tohru, he'll always be that creepy guy on the last book of Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy. No Tohru can ever factor in unless he/she tries to off his/her adoptive father.
I don't know about Yuya, but, having read Gals! before SDK, I think it suits a boy better than a girl.
Anyway, I really like the unisex names. All the more if it's a rather manly name and it's a girl who bears it and vice-versa. Thus my love of Tsukasa's patronym on Tôkyô Crazy Paradise or Akira's in Kaguya Hime.
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Date: 2008-01-19 02:00 am (UTC)For instance, Rei will always be Ayanami Rei to me, no matter how many characters -- male or female -- go by the same name. For this reason, I irrationally expect each and every Rei in manga/anime-land to be emotionless and suicidal. Although, you could say Gals! and High School Kimengumi sort of stumped me on this one.
Ran is Shinichi Kudô's love interest in Detective Conan.
As for Tohru, he'll always be that creepy guy on the last book of Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy. No Tohru can ever factor in unless he/she tries to off his/her adoptive father.
I don't know about Yuya, but, having read Gals! before SDK, I think it suits a boy better than a girl.
Anyway, I really like the unisex names. All the more if it's a rather manly name and it's a girl who bears it and vice-versa. Thus my love of Tsukasa's patronym on Tôkyô Crazy Paradise or Akira's in Kaguya Hime.