S/mileage's new name is ANGERME, 3rd gen members announced

[Shabranikuduu]

^Since it comes from the words "ange" and "larme", it definitely needs the "r". Then again, given how the girls themselves have pronounced it, it doesn't really matter.

[iceymoon]

i've gotten used to saying anjurumu, but i can only picture it as アンジュルム when i think of it as a written word. i think i'd be pretty happy with it if the group's official name was in katakana. and they did change S/mileage's official name to be written as スマイレージ, so it would actually be kind of cool if they did the same thing this time too..

*wishful thinking*

[gustave154]

the chants are going to sound weird. Su-mai-rē-ji is easier to say than An-ju-ru-mu.

[JonCC]

Su-mai-rē-ji is easier to say than An-ju-ru-mu.

Nah, not really, no.

[Amped]

the chants are going to sound weird. Su-mai-rē-ji is easier to say than An-ju-ru-mu.

they chant the member's names, not the group name.

[Sohee]

It feels awkward mispronouncing English words but I guess I'll make an exception for ANGERME.

Well. "ANGERME" isn't English so you're not mispronouncing anything. :b

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

I second that:
アンジュルム!!!!!!

[Obsidian]

The bizarre situation that English speaking people get upset because of the Romanisation of a French derived name of a Japanese pop group.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Lemme ask you...
if you had a japanese pop group that romanised a word from a language (pretending it's a real word in another language) that romanised to "fuckit", you would get upset too. xD
except, of course, "angerme" and "fuckit" are totally unrelated in their bad-ness. xD

[Rm88]

Wow, I'm so out of the loop. Is there any particular reason why they had to change the name? This doesn't really strike me as an upgrade of any kind