How do you pronounce the names of the characters in FFVIII?

just go on youtube and find a video of the makers of the game pronouncing their names...its really not that hard...and I was suprised to see that I was pronouncing Quistis' name wrong for the past 10 years!
 
As far as Edea, I'm almost positive that an 'I' in Japanese is pronounced "ee," much like Spanish. So it would be ee-DAY-uh in my book.

I also go with KWIS-tis. If they wanted it pronounced Kistis in North America, they should have spelled it that way.

And ul-ti-meh-SEE-uh. But I was almost always certain that was off.
 
I always thought Ultimecia was said 'Ul-tee-mee-chee-a' but I agree with Jesse about the Edea pronunciation. :) I felt that these are really old names and that's why IMO people pronounce it wrongly, but that's what Final Fantasy has some references to right? The past? Like Ur and Canaan and the times of Abraham? /srsly off topic, sorry
 
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Squall Leonhart - Skw-all Leon-heart
Rinoa Heartilly - Rin-oh-ah Heart-illy
Seifer Almasy - Sy-fer al-mass-ie
Quistis Trepe - Kwis-Tis Trepee
Selphie Tilmitt - Sell-fee Till-Mitt
Zell Dincht - Zell Din-cht
Irvine Kinneas - Err-Vine Kinn-ee-ass
Edea - Eh-Dee-Ah
Adel - A-dell

fyi, This is Kelly's post that I copied cause I could not be arsed to write it over the same way she has it. I did change a few things, but we basically say the names the same way :wacky:
 
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This is me:
Is this right?
Squall Leonhart - Skoo-wall Lee-on-hart
Rinoa Heartilly - Ry-noe-ah Hart-ill-ee
Seifer Almasy - Sy-ffer All-mass-ee
Quistis Trepe - Kwiss-tiss Terep-ay
Selphie Tilmitt - Sell-ffee Till-Mitt
Zell Dincht - Zell Dinkt
Irvine Kinneas - Irr-vyn Kinn-ee-iss
Edea - Edd-ee-ah
Adel - Ay-dil
Ultimecia - Alt-ee-mee-sh-ee-yah

Is this right?
 
I'm not really sure why everyone thinks Kee-stis sounds odd but Kwis-tis doesn't. They both sound odd, but Kee-stis seems easier to say, and to roll off the tongue just a little more naturally to me. Everyone is different thought. No voice actors so you can pronounce it however you want.
 
If I'm not mistaken though, Amarant, the proper Japanese pronunciation FOR Quistis' name is Kee-stis. That's why you see so many people pronouncing her name as such.
 
Kee-stis sounds AWFUL, I don't think I'd ever catch myself reading text and thinking Keestis has just said it...that honestly sounds disgusting haha. Kwistis sounds so much better. :(

Anyway, we should know how to pronounce Squall and Seifer based on Kingdom Hearts, as well as Zell, Irvine and Selphie from basic English. I'm a but fluid on how to pronounce Rinoa, though...Rai-noah/Ry-noah, Ree-noah, Rin-oah...the first of which sounds the best to me.

Ultimecia: I go for Ul-tih-mee-see-ah, as opposed to Ul-tih-mee-shah, though the latter sounds like it's more likely to be correct.

Ray-gin and Foo-gin, I KNOW that's wrong though but I don't know how...I've been set in my way for years so I'll probably never go back anyway haha.
 
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