What's the correct pronunciation for Luffy or Rufi?


What's the correct pronunciation of his name? Luffy or Rufi?

[At the One Piece wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy), it
says "Monkey D. Luffy (モンキー･D･ルフィ Monkī D. Rufi)".




This answer needs a premise.

You see, Japanese don't distinguish between the L and R sounds. The L doesn't
really exist and the R is not pronounced like in English. It's more similar to
the Italian/Spanish R but it's not rolled. Also, FI doesn't belong to the
standard Kana — ha, hi, hu (fu), he, ho — but it's constructed.

Based on this, you could say both (and probably for Japanese there really
isn't a difference like for us). But apparently Oda meant the name to be
**Luffy** (can't find a source yet), and since the Japanese language cannot
faithfully represent this name it became _Rufi_ , being the closest match to
the actual name.




This answer needs a premise.

You see, Japanese don't distinguish between the L and R sounds. The L doesn't
really exist and the R is not pronounced like in English. It's more similar to
the Italian/Spanish R but it's not rolled. Also, FI doesn't belong to the
standard Kana — ha, hi, hu (fu), he, ho — but it's constructed.

Based on this, you could say both (and probably for Japanese there really
isn't a difference like for us). But apparently Oda meant the name to be
**Luffy** (can't find a source yet), and since the Japanese language cannot
faithfully represent this name it became _Rufi_ , being the closest match to
the actual name.

