Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-24034641-20131031043837/@comment-6697950-20131031082224

Did you check the sub or dub? Dub is completely unreliable for things like "pronunciation". However, if you checked the sub or raw, I personally hear "suiruben". Of course, I already know what I should be hearing, so that may have an effect on the result, but even if you hear it differently, the katakana was provided in the novel, so it makes the pronunciation far less ambiguous. As I said on the thread, Sylvain wouldn't really be approximated as "Suiruben" in Japanese, it would be more like "Shirubain" or "Shirubein" (Sy = shi, l = ru, v = b). Even "Sylph" is approximated as "Shirufu", so I don't see why they would approximate "sy" as "sui" in Sylvain.