Mashirito, the Mad Scientist antagonist in Doctor Slump was named after Toriyama's editor at the time, whose surname was Torishima. Considering Uub had no idea he was Buu's reincarnation, this makes it an awfully convenient name.
This is what clues Goku in to Uub being the reincarnation of the evil Buu in the final episodes of Dragonball Z. If 4Kids were a bit more clever, they could've gone with Nomolos. In the KC Grand Prix Yu-Gi-Oh! arc, Yugi's grandpa disguises himself as a duelist named Apnarg to enter a tournament. Evian (a brand of bottled water) spelled backwards yields "naive", which is too tempting to use as a Take That in places where you can get clean drinking water off the tap. And just in case you didn't get it, the commercial's narrator helpfully points out, "Tobor is "robot" spelled backwards!" See it here. Tobor, an imaginatively-named children's toy from The Seventies, advertised during the one and only televised broadcast of The Star Wars Holiday Special. See Alucard for a specific example that is so prevalent as to count as its own trope. Sometimes, the reversed spelling may be altered to look a little more plausible and/or be easier to pronounce, like " straw ckab" instead of " sdraw kcab" - as "st" and "ck" are common digraphs in English, which makes it look more believable as a word.Ĭompare Steven Ulysses Perhero. This includes palindromes, such as " Maeda Ema" (spelled Ma-e-da-E-ma) and " Yamada Maya" (Ya-ma-da-Ma-ya). Conversely, reversing the syllables instead of the spelling can pass in writing, but may sound obvious when spoken out loud.Īlso note that some other languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, assign whole syllables to each character, so while the names really were spelled backwards in their native alphabet, their English equivalents got Lost in Translation. You might spot the trope in writing, but it sounds like a genuine name when spoken aloud. For example, compare " Rotiart" (Roh-Tee-Art) to "traitor" (Tray-Tor) the letters are reversed, but the way English language rules work, the result comes out with noticeably different syllabic parsing and verbal rhythm. On a technical note, this trope is much more interesting depending on whether it's the sounds or letters that have been reversed, compared with whether it occurs in written or spoken form. (And yes, it does spell "My Nana" if written backwards). The technical term for this is an "Ananym". Sure enough, most of the time someone notices, often by exclaiming "(Eman Sdrawckab) spelled backwards is (Backwards Name)!" You'd expect them to be more imaginative, and smart enough to realize that such a pseudonym can easily give away your true identity. When someone has to think of a pseudonym for themselves, an oddly popular choice is their own name, but written backwards. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. 
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