How To Make Braclets With Names?

In manga, do Japanese names always have to make sense?

• I've been working on a japanese inspired manga for a few years now but I spoke with one of my japanese friends and she told me some of the names of the characters don't make sense except she's 30, no offense to all 30 year olds but a lot of adults don't understand the terms of manga and all its weird concepts so I thought she probably didn't know much about manga which is why it didn't make sense to her, plus it was in romanji. Anyways I am using a Katakana converter to convert random names into Japanese for example one of my character is named ヒバックー Hibaku and another one レオパード (leopard) and so on... some names though have meanings I used Jisho and many other sites to look for meanigns of names and such but I don't know if I'm truly doign this right? Is making up names the right thing to do ? I use a translater to see what the name sounds like pronounced but im not sure if this is all wrong! any tips! do these names sound proper? (for a manga)? I don't want to find otu that I'm insulting anyone

• Answer:

  Wow, she's THIRTY?! HOW IS SHE EVEN STILL ALIVE?!!!!?!! You do realize there are many, many mangaka who are in their 30's, 40's, 50's, even 60's don't you? They're the ones who CAME UP with these concepts. Age has NOTHING to do with 'understanding weird concepts'. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with making up names, but sometimes they can sound rather bad and you can't just use ANYTHING. Personally, I don't think Hibaku sounds too good because it means 'to be atomic bombed', although depending on your storyline and character, it might be appropriate and a really good name. レオパード doesn't sound very good either in my opinion, Leopard in katakana would actually be レパード, unless you intended the name to be pronounced 'le-oh-pard'.