kaiowut99:

i left the n out on purpose to be funny

Yuto’s name in Japanese katakana is ユート

Phonetically, yuuto

Doesn’t leave much room for it to be transcribed as “Ute”

Best-case, they were going for “Uto” but even then it’s a stretch

And with the lookalike-Yuya and the “Yu” naming scheme there for context, would it really make sense for it to be Ute? :P

Romanized things in the anime have always had a slight margin of error.  Remember “MORTETN”/”MOMENTUM?” Also the time or two they misromanized Rua and Ruka’s names? It could be true, it might not, but until there’s some official word on it, going with the context leading to “Yuto” is our best bet.  

The same should go for Reira too, as much of an L/R issue as it is: he’s Reiji’s brother, so Reira makes a little more sense than Layra.  Though it does sound a bit weird to say out loud lol.

*runs to listen to Burn! five more times*

My guess is that the U is meant to be pronounced “yu,” and that the “e” is supposed to be silent. In that case the correct pronunciation would come out as something like “yoot,” as weird as that looks written out. That loses the “Yu” parallel, though, so if it’s really supposed to be pronounced that way I think it ought to be written as “Yute.”

But who knows, maybe it’ll be written out differently the next time we see it. From what I remember of 5D’s they were far from consistent with romanization of non-Japanese names.

As far as Layra goes, R to match with Reiji makes sense, but if their father’s name is going to be written like “Leo,” I’d lean toward the L side, personally. You could even write Reiji as Leiji instead; there are people who do that.