Talk:White Hawk Armor Set/@comment-115.135.195.29-20120609092512/@comment-24.242.121.189-20120921042758

Berserk is a manga, a Japanese comic book, written by a Japanese author. "Guts"'s original name was "Gatsu". If you want to get purist about a comic book character's name (that's been translated a dozen different times for a dozen different languages, anyway), then his truest name is "Gatsu". That would be with a short "a" (the "ah" sound) and the "u" is silent.

Furthermore, the manga is set in a fictional world. There is no Japan, Germany, or America. Another way to look at it is that the characters speak a language that doesn't exist in real life, and we're hearing it translated into whichever language you're hearing it in. Therefore, his name isn't even "Gatsu", that's just the closest thing in Japanese to what his real name is in the fictional Berserk world with its fictional Berserk language.

tl;dr - It's a trivial argument in every manner. You're all talking about the same character, whether you call him "Guts", "Gats", or "Chimpslap McGooberton, Esquire". We have more important matters to discuss.