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Tag Alias: tenoushuu_athena -> tennousu_atene

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Aliasing tenoushuu_athena -> tennousu_atene.

Reason: a VERY BIG typo, not sure about her being a Greek or a Japanese, but her Japanese name is 天王州 アテネ (which makes me think it's SERIOUSLY NOT a Greek one, becausing her surname is spelled by Kanji, not Katakana).
Someone had suggested "Tennos", the mangaka himself spelled "テンノウス/テンノース" (Tennousu/Tennōsu) for reading 天王州. Almost fans accept her forename as "Athena", as the Greek mythology goddess Athena.

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The family name is definitely wrong and needs to be changed. Japanese Wikipedia gives that reading too: 天王州 アテネ (てんのうす あてね) I'm in favor of using "Atene" or "Athene" going by the Japanese wiki page for the goddess (seems this form is based on the Ionic Greek? pronunciation)

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I think it'd depend on how they pronounce her name, in English Athene is pronounced with a -nē at the end instead of the -na sound in Athena.

edit: Not sure if this impacts anything, but アテネ is what they use for Athens which looks like it would take us back to the spelling "Athena" it would seem.

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If アテネ is what they use for the name Athens, which going by Wikipedia in Greek is Αθήνα which is pronounced "Athena." He choose to name her after the City/City-state, which is named after the Goddess. So I think it would be just as accurate to go with Athena with her name than go with "Athene" as there were alternatives for him to use to get specifically that spelling but choose instead that which is used for the City, and that city in its own native language is pronounced Athena.

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