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AksaraKishou
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How the hell is that a "geek name"??? lmao |
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Sevokevo Royuki
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Yup. Thats the only difference.. but i can see it in Greek in considered a female name... Plus the fact that Asta means Love in Japanese.... But Asta sounds more like a male name.... probably because its because i first heard the name from BC. |
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RenRen94
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Asta honestly isn't that bad of a name, the parents even have a plausible story to go with the name choice. Some people just have a knee-jerk reaction to anime/game/nerd culture names, but I will admit some names do work better than others.
It's much better than whatever hot mess Elon Musk named his son, or any variation of coronavirus or Covid-19... |
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Ming Yi
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I think "Asta" is a better trade-off than Sora, Yuki, or Natsu, especially if the parents are not Japanese.
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You think most people know what Black Clover is? This is extremely Cringe. |
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Replica_Rabbit
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Meh, no different than naming your kid after something from the bible. For me, I find it to be silly as tattooing your girlfriend/boyfriend name on your body.
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Key
Moderator
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Honestly, I don't see a problem with this. I have seen much, much worse names on class rosters over the last couple of decades.
(Of course, I may be a little biased, since I have nephews whose first/middle name combos are Corbin Dallas and Connor MacCleod. . . and no, I'm not joking.) |
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ryanvamp
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This. |
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harminia
 Posts: 2009 Location: australia |
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Honestly, if you're gonna name your kid after an animu character, at least Asta is a better choice. It's not Japanese, and from the outside just looks European or something. It's not hard to pronounce and it doesn't have a copious number of Y's or H's in it.
And considering the parents were considering names like Yuki or Yuno, I'm glad they went with Asta. We don't need more white parents giving their white kids Japanese names. I'm just happy for the small mercy here. Kid dodged a bullet. Plus, Black Clover does not have the popularity for most people to connect the dots. If he had been called Deku or Goku or Luffy, then people would be like "Hmmm". |
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zrnzle500
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Beyond kids calling them Assta, I don’t foresee the kid having many issues because of their name. Saying “Hey, that kid is named after the MC of an anime from 10+ years ago” would just out you as a big anime fan. I agree with RenRen94 that Asta is a better name than X Æ A-Xii (They had to change it from X Æ A-12 because California requires names to use only the 26 letters of the alphabet).
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Fenrin
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Despite what I feel about the MC, Asta is actually a pretty good name. It sounds natural and reminds be of the name Desta which I've considered for a child.
Some 'anime' names are also on my list; I'm heavily considering Euphemia (Code Geass) for a girl and Gwendal or Wolfram (Kyou Kara Maou) for a boy. Albeit not because of the characters per se, the anime introduced me to them but I just really love those names in general. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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They're even bigger idiots because they should've named her South so when she grew up she'd have a job waiting doing Southwest commercials. Still could've been worse. Hello Apple or Blanket.
Ok, so those are geeky names, but they could easily pass as normal names as well if others were not familiar with the source material. I figure Corbin Dallas might get more recognition in the 30 and under crowd, or geeks. I would bet 99 out of 100 though would not get the Connor MacCleod reference. I sure hope he's and only child though, otherwise that's gonna be some really bad sibling rivalry. 
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Sekaro
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Man everyone's really making a big deal out of this huh. Asta isn't even that bad of a name & it's not immediately apparent as Japanese unless u meet people who know BC which isn't all that likely (not as much as MHA anyways). I sense some biased hate for Asta in this comment section...
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walw6pK4Alo
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At least it's not Sephiroth.
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catbot158
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To be fair to the parents, Asta is actually a cool name! It's a short form of Astrid, which in ancient Scandinavian means "beloved/beautiful god". Technically a girl's name, but hey the lines have blurred before when it comes to gendered names.
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