Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-999343-20130426180505/@comment-1904799-20140123070607

Kyokaybyn wrote: With the latest chapter, it came to my mind that Kubo most likely derived his name from the hebrew name of the Jewish (and Christian) god YHWH, which is commonly pronouned as Jehowah/Jehovah in German. Japanese uses "B" for "V" as in vitamin. therefore, can surmise that Yhwach's katakana JuHaBaHa is suppose to pronounce as Jehovah. Not quite. As I've mentioned before, the "ッハ" characters at the end of Yhwach's name indicate a guttural "ch" sound, such as would be used in German. A good instance of this is the name of Bach, the composer. That's basically the sound that his name is pronounced with. The closest phonetic spelling I can come up with is "Yih-vach," with the "ch" being guttural. It's possible (if not a given) that the name was inspired by "Jehovah" or "Yahweh."