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[Disclaimer: All of these Japanese names, aside from Caeserber’s, are made up by me and aren’t official. This is merely made for fun and may even teach people how parts of Monster Hunter etymology work.]

Recently, I received info from none other than @Nack The Dragon (MHO researcher extraordinaire). It seems out of all the Online monsters, Caeserber is the only one with an official JP name: ケセルベル (Keseruberu). So what if the rest of the roster got the same treatment? Let’s have a look!

To start off, here’s a list of names that are simply transliterated to Japanese:

Baelidae

バエリダエ (Baeridae)

Estrellian

エストレリアン (Esutorerian)

Merphistophelin

メフィストフェリン (Mefisutoferin)

Slicemargl

スライスマグル (Suraisumaguru)

Tartaronis

タルタロニス (Tarutaronisu)

Now we get to the names that I had to think real hard in order to make them more decent:

Chramine

クラミニク (Kuraminiku)

Take “Chramine”, transliterate, but this time add miniku (kanji: 醜 / kana: みにく), the Japanese word meaning “ugly”. Interestingly, if you look at Chramine’s concept art, it was going to look way different from the Gypceros lookalike that it is now. Makes you wonder why, doesn’t it?

Disaster Wyvern

ルロコヤク (Rurokoyaku)

My personal favorite of all the names I made! So for a long time, I heard that this monster actually had a proper English name: Koyaku. Whether it’s official I have no idea, but I knew I had to implement it into the Japanese name. However, while “Koyaku” on its own can fit as the localized name, “コヤク” is obviously too short for a JP one, let alone that of a large monster. So I looked for extra words, and picked out lǜ / 綠 (Chinese for “green”, like the monster’s color) and loco, as in locomotive, since the monster charges at you like one, but loco can also mean ‘crazy’, and its fight surely was so. Also this may or may not be a coincidence, but the “yaku” in Koyaku can be the Japanese word for “disaster” (kanji: 厄 / kana: やく), like Disaster Wyvern.

Lightenna

アカラテナ (Akaratena)

For this one, I wanted the Japanese name to have practically the same meaning as the English one. There’s akari (kanji: 灯 / kana: あかり), meaning “light”. As well as kara (kanji: 殻 / kana: から), meaning “shell”, like a beetle’s exoskeleton. And of course, “-tena” is from ‘antenna’.

Now we get to subspecies, which are pretty straightforward. All you need to do is put ‘亜種’ (which is Japanese for subspecies, go figure) in front of a monster’s Japanese name. Same goes with Rare Species, but instead we use ‘希少種’ (I don’t have to explain this one, right?). Anyway, on with the sub/rare species list:

Arbiter Estrellian

エストレリアン希少種 (Esutorerian Kishō-shu)

Doom Estrellian

エストレリアン亜種 (Esutorerian Ashu)

Dread Baelidae

バエリダエ亜種 (Baeridae Ashu)

Ice Chramine

クラミニク亜種 (Kuraminiku Ashu)

Infernal Tartaronis

タルタロニス亜種 (Tarutaronisu Ashu)

Poikilos Lightenna

アカラテナ亜種 (Akaratena Ashu)

Purple Slicemargl

スライスマグル亜種 (Suraisumaguru Ashu)

Yellow Caeserber

ケセルベル亜種 (Keseruberu Ashu)

Alright… Lone Species. They’re actually simple to do as well (except a certain duo which we’ll get to later)

Step 1: translate “lone species” to Japanese, of which you’ll get 孤独な種

Step 2: shorten it to 孤独種 since it should only contain kanji (a system of Japanese writing using Chinese characters)

Step 3: offer the same treatment as the subs & rares. Electric boogaloo, anyone?

Flame Blangonga

ドドブランゴ孤独種 (Dodoburango Kodoku-shu)

Flame Tigrex

ティガレックス孤独種 (Tigarekkusu Kodoku-shu)

Gold Congalala

ババコンガ孤独種 (Babakonga Kodoku-shu)

Gold Hypnocatrice

ヒプノック孤独種 (Hipunokku Kodoku-shu)

Gonngenn Hermitaur

ダイミョウザザミ孤独種 (Daimyōzazami Kodoku-shu)

Onimusha

ショウグンギザミ孤独種 (Shōgungizami Kodoku-shu)

Sandstone Basarios

バサルモス孤独種 (Basarumosu Kodoku-shu)

Guren Shen Gaoren & Teppeki Shen Gaoren… now this is the aforementioned duo. I mean, they come from the same monster, so “シェンガオレン孤独種” is not a go at all. There’s gotta be a way to differentiate the two names… Oh I know! It just so happens that 紅蓮 (Guren; “crimson lotus”) and 鉄壁 (Teppeki; “iron wall”) are original Japanese words, so how about this…

Guren Shen Gaoren

シェンガオレン紅蓮孤独種 (Shengaoren Guren Kodoku-shu)

Teppeki Shen Gaoren

シェンガオレン鉄壁孤独種 (Shengaoren Teppeki Kodoku-shu)

Last but not least, the Variants. I actually came up with JP names for them in an older post as shown below.

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003436006

Fan-made Japanese names for the MHO Variants | FandomWell… it’s been veeeery long since I’ve been in…monsterhunter.fandom.com

Now, the way I see it, how Japanese grammar works is that you put the noun before the verb. Take Blackveil Vaal Hazak for example: if you combine 死 (Shi; “death”) and 纏う (Matou; to wear) into a phrase, you would get 死を纏う (Shi o matou; literally “wearing death”). Oh yeah, and these phrases should only have 4 to 6 characters, except Rusted Kushala Daora who only has 3.

Conflagration Rathian

烈火振るうリオレイア (Rekka Furū Rioreia)

Literal Translation: “Rathian that wields raging fire”

Crystal Basarios

紅山を運ぶバサルモス (Beniiwa o Hakobu Basarumosu)

Literal Translation: “Basarios that carries a crimson mountain”

Elemental Merphistophelin

全相支配するメフィストフェリン (Zensō Shihai Suru Mefisutoferin)

Literal Translation: “Merphistophelin that rules all phases”

Ghost Caeserber

戦没から戻るケセルベル (Senbotsu Kara Modoru Keseruberu)

Literal Translation: “Caeserber that returned from its death in battle”

One-Eared Yian Garuga

片耳だけイャンガルルガ (Katamimi Dake I~yangaruruga)

Literal Translation: “Yian Garuga with only one ear”

Shattered Monoblos

壊れた角でモノブロス (Kowareta Tsuno De Monoburosu)

Literal Translation: “Monoblos with a broken horn”

Swordmaster Shogun Ceanataur

二刀熟練するショウグンギザミ (Nitō Jukuren Suru Shōgungizami)

Literal Translation: “Shogun Ceanataur that became skilled with two swords”

And that’s every MHO monster if they had Japanese names! What do y’all think of them? Perhaps you got your own takes? Lemme know down below and have a good time!

This is somewhat related to this post here

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000003436006

Fan-made Japanese names for the MHO Variants | FandomWell… it’s been veeeery long since I’ve been in…monsterhunter.fandom.com

I mean of course you can’t always rely on the wiki when it comes to info, but like, if you look at this…

These were WAY BEFORE the edit in Caeserber’s page, so ケセルベル (Keseruberu), as this fella is named in Japanese, is either official or made up by the community. However, given that the edit is by @Nack The Dragon, who is pretty much a specialist in MHO’s stuff, it’s most likely the former.

Either way though, I’ll definitely use “ケセルベル” rather than “シサルベル” (the version I made up myself; see the post linked above) from now on.

“Fan-made Japanese names for MHO’s monsters” will be coming… at some later time.