Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-917693-20130227135343/@comment-3497690-20130304222617

Well, when I was overhauling MARiA's page, I was thinking, why can't we have both? Like a modified version of the way Wikipedia does it, with the name in Western order then in brackets bolded kanji/kana + eastern order in italics, for example: Nana Mitani (実谷なな, Mitani Nana)? Redirects can take care of the rest, and I don't think there's much room for confusion that way.

My only real beef with Eastern order is because sometimes the name isn't just a username. For example, people like Buzz Panda (aka Ryota Kikuchi) and the aforementioned MARiA (when she was still known as Mai Mizuhashi) always romanize their names in Western order on official sources. And not to mention professional singers who also happen to be utaite like Yumi Matsuzawa and Rekka Katakiri (who both qualify for their own pages btw), who are probably much better known to the public at large with their names in that order.

Or perhaps I'm just dumb and overthinking things, but oh well.