Adol???

[aaronlambert]

Just how to you REALLY pronounce his name? You listen to the Turbo Grafx CD's and they pronounce it Ay-doll. You listen to it with Japanese tracks and they say Add-ul.

[Adol.Christin]

most likely a-do-ru in Japanese.

but I say it like you say Adolf but then minus the f

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Ah as in Adore
Dole- as in Dolemite.

And you sons of bitches with accents different than mine can go drown >:[

[aaronlambert]

That's what I figured, wow NEC messed allot of stuff up I think in their versions.

[Gamemusicfreak]

I still say it like in the English Turbo Grafx Version. It's what I grew up with. I don't like to say it the other way, it doesn't sound as cool to me.

[Red Hairdo]

USA's english: The way the TGCD version pronounces it. It IS correct.
England's english: The way the PS2 Ys VI (english) version pronounces it. It IS correct too.

Nothing wrong in the way they pronounce. It changes in different languages and such. There's a unique way to pronounce Adol's name in my country too.

[Lumi]

Considering the Ys world is more or less modeled freely off of Earth with given locales (Romun, Felghana, etc.) corresponding to places in Europe, I'd hazard a guess to say the pronunciation used in the dubbing of Ys AoN for the PS2 (i.e. "Ah-dole") is the most accurate one. It's also closer in sound to the Japanese pronunciation of "Adoru," if you want to be a purist.

Not that "Ay-dole" is wrong, it just has a tendency to sound a bit hokey to my ears.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

See Lumi there? That's her being absolutely correct.