Talk:Hiro Nakamura

I think the "great disservice" part was that Hiro thought that he had not been doing his mission -- that he was just living a mundane life and not showing the bravery that his grandfather had exemplified. -Icewind 11.15.06 // 4:23PM

Hiro Nakamura runs out of mana. WTF. -Icewind 11.27.06 // 8:54PM

Hiro doesn’t stop time, he moves independently from it. Stopping time would have universal ramifications. One person moving independently from time, not so much. When it appears that time stops, Hiro is basically just moving really fast.--ASEO 11:04, 1 February 2007 (EST)

Hiro accidentally jumps away from Charlie. I still don’t understand why he doesn’t save her from being murdered, even if she is going to die anyway, at least she wouldn’t be murdered. --ASEO 11:04, 1 February 2007 (EST)

Shiro Nakamura of Nissan

Sounds fine. It's not stating that there's a necessary or causal relationship between one or the other, which we don't yet know. From my recollection, Hiro is named for sounding like "hero" and being explained somewhere that it's short for Hiroshima? Though dunno if that bit's canon. I've usually heard "Hiro" as short for Hiroyuki, though I guess there's likely other possibilities. His last name could be named after this Senior VP, or for some other reason, or be entirely coincidental. But it's just trivia. I usually figure if people read more into something than is actually written, they're the one's bearing the risk of going out on that limb. ^^ --Glue 05:48, 25 February 2007 (EST)

• No comment on Shiro Nakamura (although, Nakamura is a popular Japanese last name -- see Saemi Nakamura). Just a quick note about his name: Hiro sounding like hero is a very cool connection -- I'm sure it's purposeful, but not canonical. He mentioned he was named after Hiroshima in Graphic Novel:The Crane. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 08:46, 26 February 2007 (EST)

Hiro's Blog Shutdown by Yamagato Industries

http://blog.nbc.com/hiro_blog/2007/03/notice_from_yamagato_industrie.php

What's up with that? --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 03/9/2007 14:46 (EST)

• Oh, now that's just awesome. Those Yamagatans, they're such teases! — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:25, 9 March 2007 (EST)

Section Cleanup

The Powers section needs a bit of cleanup. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:42, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Hiro in Kanji

I'm not Japanese, but I have been involved with Japanese Wado Ryu Karate and Shindo Yoshin Ryu Jiujitsu for years and years. I noticed that the article wants the kanji for Hiro's name. Here are the two best choices taken from the online J-E Dictionary at: http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&L=J&T=Hiro&WC=none&FG=r&BG=b&S=26 They are:
1) "hiro":
the kanji entry which means 'fathom' and is the most literal same romanji spelling of the name.

and
2) "hirroo":
the kana entry which means 'hero', and is a contextually more accurate fit. I will list that graphic #2 on the main page. --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 03/15/2007 17:12 (EST)

Being directed here by a fellow member with obviously more Wiki-experience than I have, I am willing to discuss what Hiro's name in kanji should be. He explained to me that I should have Asian fonts as uploaded pictures, however I believe this to be bulky and distracting to the flow and aesthetics of the article in general, and looking at almost every other page that utilizes Asian fonts, they all have them as regular text. What I'm trying to say is, if you don't have Asian fonts installed, you not that interested in knowing Hiro's authentic name! Ok, just kidding about that, but I stand by my original opinion that pictures make it bulky looking. And to think that everytime you want to type Asian fonts you would have to make a picture and upload it, it would be aggravatingly painstaking.

From my couple of semesters of Japanese at my university, I can safely assume that the correct kanji for Hiro's family name is: