Talk:Alexander Volg Zangief

About this page
This page was created to allow editors to add information about the character Alexander Vorg Zangief from the Fighting Spirit (Hajime no Ippo) series because the main article had gotten to be too big. To any editors that contributed to the Alexander Vorg Zangief character section of the Fighting Spirit article, please transfer over any unnecessary information from that article into this article. Guyinblack25 15:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Renaming Article
After watching the English DVDs released by Geneon, it has come to my attention that the spelling of this character's name on virtually all the Fighting Spirit pages is incorrect. This is probably in part to most people's introduction of the series was by translated pages of the manga that were released on the internet, myself included. I believe that the proper spelling should be "Alexander Volg Zangief" with an "L" instead of an "R" in his middle name. His name is spelled as "Volg" on the back of the DVD covers and in the subtitles. The name on his boxing trunk is even spelled with an "L" in the manga, anime, and on merchandise. This is probably because in the translated manga on the internet translated his name from katakana, ヴォルグ, which translates out as "Vorugu". *Note: the Japanese "R" sound is not the same sound as the English "R", it is almost like a slurred English "R" and "L" together, which is why it is sometimes used for both "R" and "L" sounds in English.* In the case of the manga translations, it was assumed to be an English "R". Given that his name also means "wolf" in Russian, wolf is "Волк" in Russian. The "В" is pronounced as a "V" in English, the "о" is pronouced as an "o" in English, the "л" is pronouced as an "l" in English, and the "к" is pronouced as a "k" in English. For the sake of accuracy, I plan on moving the page over to "Alexander Volg Zangief" and correcting the spelling on any pages that it may occur. Any thoughts or objections? (Guyinblack25 19:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC))