Talk:Girgacon/@comment-5020152-20150403195706/@comment-4899279-20150404091218

I literally just look at the Japanese Alphabet and pick "letters" (syllables more like) to my preference. There isn't any particular meaning to the name, but you can make it have a meaning if you want to (For instance, with one of my creations, Axodont, it's japanese name is Akusunokubutsu which means Axe Beast)

For "Jirugaku" I looked at the Katakana characters -> http://www.how-ocr-works.com/languages/japanese-alphabet/katakana-characters2.png

Once you've picked one, you can make up your own English name for the monster that sounds similar to the romaji. To do this, you have to knock out a few letters in the romaji. You can also change the K's to C's and the R's in the middle of the word to L's, but that is purely up to you. More ofte that not, the letter that is knocked out of the romaji to form an English name is U. However, don't knock out the U if you want it to be part of  another word that means something else in another language. Tetsukabura, for instance, was translated into Tetsucabra. The K was changed to a C, but the U remained there because CAPCOM wanted the Tetsu to stay there (which means Iron in Japanese).

Let's take Seregios for example. In Romaji, it's Seruregiosu. You MAY knock out the letters that aren't pronounced prominently or the letters that are silent. A japanese speaker would say "Seruregiosu" as "Seru-re-giyos". Using the said letter changing (that I said is purely up to you if you want to change it), I would have, personally, translated Seruregiosu as Selregios. The "ru" counts as an R in the middle of the word, so I changed it to an L (again, purely up to you if you want to change that) and took the U out. The U at the end of the sentence isn't pronounced that prominently so I took that out.

A different example would be Rathalos / Rioreusu. Now, as you can see, Rathalos sounds far different to Rioreusu, but that's another factor of translating - You don't have to make the English name sound similar to the Romaji. BannedLagiacrus and I have worked on a monster called Kounoyoragon, which means Feathered Light Dragon. But its English name is Luminosios. You can make up an entirely different name to what the romaji might suggest you have to.

Hope these examples help.