No_Love_1353 t1_je7zgxk wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:49 AM

I highly doubt his last name is Wolf…

_preschool-dropout t1_je844pc wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:25 AM

the name the guy has, okami (岡見, i'm pretty sure) is different from the word for wolf, which is ookami. (狼) ookami has the longer o vowel.

there's actually a hundred people or so in japan with the last name ookami. (source: myoji yurai)

also the meaning of the guys name was in the first paragraph lol.

No_Love_1353 t1_je85rp1 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:38 AM

Ah, thank you for that explanation

_preschool-dropout t1_je85ztz wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:40 AM

np dude :)

SilanArsin t1_je85l6w wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:36 AM

Came here to say this.

NerdyDan t1_je8454f wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:25 AM

Okami actually isn’t wolf. Ookami is. Okami could refer to literally prefix+god

DeProgrammer99 t1_jeb13ck wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:34 PM

This is why I can't get behind the most popular method of Romanizing Japanese. It makes an already homophone-intense language even more ambiguous by removing important letters (Toukyou, Kyouto, Koube / Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe)... I assumed they meant "Ookami" for a second, too. :P