I was able to deduce most of the main cast, and the teachers', names on my own. I am a polyglot when it comes to foreign languages I can understand, sing in, and intuit etymology from. Names of prominent NPCs, and some main cast names, were lazier than others, i.e. too easy to interpret for those with original fairytales/Disney villain knowledge or else too hard for non Disney villain fans. Rollo Flamme (very lazy), Azul Ashengrotto (lazy, if you know Ursula and names for her gender bent variations), Malleus Draconia (kind of lazy if you know Maleficent and dragons), Divus Crewel (very lazy), Jamil Viper, (last name lazy) and Rook Hunt (last name very lazy) are among the lazy naming schemes I have found. Here are some of my interpretations of the names (upon initial readings and knowledge of Disney villains/foreign languages): Riddle Rosehearts - last name is direct association to Queen of Hearts and "painting the roses red"; first name is reference to Lewis Carroll including several 'riddles' within Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Ace Trappola - first name is direct reference to one/Ace in card suits; I didn't get Trappola, although I did get the subtext reference to Jack Heart (might be the seven years older brother) of Disney Villains Recruiters, a Tokyo Disneyland show instrumental for developing TWST Deuce Spade - last name is easy; Deuce takes a while if you don't know it can refer to the number two (I thought of tennis deuces, a 40=40 tie, at first). Face markings are good for non-dorm head characters from Heartslabyul, not to mention their signature cards appear as pins on their Dorm Uniforms. Cater Diamond - last name is easy; four sided shape association means Cater likely refers to the number four, never cared to follow up as I'm neutral on Cater as a whole. I'm like Idia with this character, wanting to stay away from the "trend chasing, too extroverted for his own good" kid. Trey Clover - last name is easy; Trey means the number three in several languages, including Italian (one of the languages I speak) Leona Kingscholar - last name is alluding to Scar having "the lion's share" of brains and his subverting his brother as king; first name is meant to directly reference lions, although I'm surprised they chose a name given to GIRLS (Lionesses having numbers and proficiency superiority in a lion pride? I'm not sure.) Ruggie Bucchi - first name sounds like "rugged", rough around the edges, referring to his lack of manners and low class standing, like the hyenas in The Lion King; last name I didn't know the origins for Jack Howl- last name refers to the sound wolves make to communicate (kind of lazy here); first name is meant to be a "every man" sort of name that people can relate to; despite his being a bit of a bodybuilding meathead, Jack is one of the more heroic/relatable students at NRC Vil Schoenheit: last name is German, just from looking at it; I typed the word into Google Translate and it gave me a term akin to "the state of loveliness", surface level translation could be "the height of beauty"; Vil reminded me of the French "la ville" meaning "town or village". Vil also has meaning in German, although I forget what it is. Epel Felmier - first name made me think of "shoulders" (les epaules) rather than "apples", although the spelling similarity is there; last name is close to French fermier (farmer, direct allusion to Epel's "country bumpkin" origins), which took some bio reading on the TWST wiki for me to get Idia and Ortho Shroud: last name refers to "burial shrouds", often wrapped around the deceased of Ancient Greece and several other ancient cultures; Idia is similar to the Latin "Ideo" (in God's name) and the Romance language forms of "idea" (hinting his mad genius); Ortho has a lighter meaning from Greek I found on Google translate Sebek Zigvolt: last name is a cross between German "Zigmund" "Zigfried" other "zig-" starting names and a measuring unit of electrical energy (hints at how Sebek only respects martial power and his electrical magic specialty; Grimm fairytale of Sleeping Beauty/Briar Rose is said to be German too); first name alludes to the Egyptian god Sobek, crocodile headed god of the Nile, in line with Floyd calling him wani/croc as his particular "fishy nickname". As for Gidel and Fellow Honest, the untrustworthy "fox and cat" inspirations were obvious. Fellow Honest's name is a fusion between the two names for Disney's dishonest fox character, Foul Fellow and Honest John. In addition to Gideon, Gidel's name could be based on "guignol", a French word for a fancy kind of doll or puppet, fitting with his muteness and sometimes 'wooden and uncontrolled' movements. I did some video research into their characters in other countries, not just Carlo Collodi's native Italy; "the fox and the cat" are quite popular villain walk around characters in Tokyo Disneyland as it turns out; I have seen them in Halloween centric parades and they even have a statue in a "public gardens" section of the park.

THIS IS SO UNDERRATEDDDD

Cómo se llama la máscara o el personajes

the masked man carried that opening ceremony.

0:00 Short Montage of the Masked Man 0:32 Introduction 0:55 Who is the Masked Man? 1:51 Why is he there? Is he important to France? 2:30 Why is he making headlines? 4:42 Who is the one behind the mask?

for vargas i remember seeing somewhere that the name was chosen so vargas ends with "gas" and ashton ends with "ton", referring to Gaston, who he is based off of. I can't remember where I read that, though

... Canon image? My boys look clean here lol

1日1回観に来るのが日課になりつつある

6:04 the worried face of Silver

アニメになって欲しい 4:17

Malleus: 😡 Crowley: Scolding him for throwing a fit. Malleus: 💢

We all know that everyone laughed at Ace, because his whole name sounds like "Hey strapon"

Why the fuck am i only NOW knowing wbout anime boys, hot daddy scar and even more. Why FYP? I do still love this

10:58 not Ryunosuke Naruhodo is Ryutaro Naruhodo

Meleanor is based-off Angelie Jolie who played Maleficent in the live action, said by Yana Toboso in a tweet Also Dila maybe a play on words for Dealer, like Card Dealer.

I love this

I wish I would die sooner and be reincarnated in this world!!!

0:00 = Bonjour Marylin by Vladimir Cosma 3:38 = Toi et Moi by Michel Legrand 6:21 = Le Jouet by Vladimir Cosma 8:26 = Vivre pour vivre by Francis Lai 11:34 = Theme d'Amour by Ennio Morricone 14:40 = Les choses de la vie by Philippe Sarde 17:05 = Promenade Sentimentale by Vladimir Cosma 19:38 = Nelly et Martin by Michel Legrand 24:12 = Coup de Foudre by Vladimir Cosma 27:06 = Treize jours en France by Francis Lai

That was a good game. The script just hit the right note. Thanks for the video.

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As far as I know, the names of the dorm leaders are based on what the villains' names sound like phonetically in Japanese.

11:45 *Hunchback of Notre Dame Music* Does anyone have a bad feeling that Rollo would have the same personality and figure as Claude Frollo? 😃😃😃 I bet Quasimodo was just watching them in the background somehow at the dark corners of the church grounds.

9:07 i just love idia being disguted to go outside he is a shut it otaku❤🎉

I think Jamil's Unique Magic refers to every time Jafar used his snake shaped staff to hypnotized the Sultan (Kalim) because they have the same effect, Sultan looks at the snake's gems/eyes reflect in Jamil's magic needs the target to look at his eyes. While it might be due to a mistranslation because they sound the same, for Malleus' Unique Magic it would've been 'Fae of Maleficence' instead of Maleficent the character, which then referred to the nature of Maleficent herself, fae of evil deeds.

This is just my own nerding out but it’s also pretty reasonable to believe Ortho’s name is derived from the Greek underworld dog “Orthrus” who’s like the little brother of Cerberus and has two heads (which checks out because there are two ortho’s the humanoid and the phantom)

Bro Sebek is literally Dio's grandson 💀💀

I wish the author created the story about a non-magic girl got teleport into the another world fall in love with the villainous and the final boss based on Disney Villains.

Merci ❤

Agreed I definitely want to see that please

Hopefully we will see Leona’s family

2:11 meeting mother & father shroud

woof, i heard Baul's voice and .. well imma stop there 'cuz i dont wanna get banned

Vil’s Dad looks like Mads Mikkelsen…

mr and mrs shroud are so cool 💘

The revived prosecutor is the best soundtrack in the series in my opinion, turning a "Heroic" theme into something that could be also taken as "Villainous", also including a leitmotif of his theme is amazing as well. It's like he combined both his theme and the professor's, Hiromitsu Maeba did not have to go so hard on this

Natsuki hanae❤❤❤❤

Hi Eric, you must be my future father-in-law, right?

The fact that he just can't comprehend how Druvis chose to move on

Cheka is the sweetest cherub in all of twisted wonderland

How’d u got animated cutscenes? I didn’t get mine 😔

0:01 Sonic and Amy?

Cheka is so cute

0:53 Am really hoping that the creators of Twisted Wonderland will feature the other characters inspired by the other Alice in Wonderland Characters, we do get to see Che'nya as Cheshire Cat however am looking forward to see inspiration of the Mad Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, The Duchess, Mock Turtle, Jabberwocky and more.

Where is riddles mom. I just want to talk to her😈💢

Very unfortunate that it didn't include Strongheart's and van Zieks' themes

I was NOT expecting Fellow Honest’s voice to be that deep omg 😭

It's so funny to me how they just put the same song into the background over and over LMAO and yet the animation is always different! It's impressive 😭

For some reason Deuce's mother looks almost exactly like I thought she would, a soccer mom Also am I weird for thinking it's weird remembering some of these characters have actual relatives or?

Will someone please tell me if they are making a actual anime out of this game! IM GONING CRAZY!!!

I hope to see every family members that have been mentioned by the characters, in the future. Like.. Ace's brother Riddle's mom Cater's sisters Leona's brother Azul's mom Etc