Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-999343-20130426180505/@comment-5398287-20141106034417

Baus of Hogs wrote: So basically we don't know? Crazy to think they made this without telling you how to pronounce a main characters name. There is clearly a lot of confusion and many possibilities. Have the creators not said in the English version how its supposed to be pronounced? Uh...Kubo (among many mangaka and writers) has never provided pronunciation guides for his character's names. Generally, the English dub of the anime is where the "official" pronunciations come from.