Mild annoyance on YouTube of some people who don't understand how names work.
Specifically, in converting names between English and Japanese orders, and even more specifically, the D. initial in One Piece.
To break it down, I used [personal name] and [surname]. In Japanese, the order is [surname] [personal name] and in English it's [personal name] [surname].
Japan doesn't really do middle names, as Americans would understand them, each name is just the two parts (unless the person has been cast out from their family or left it entirely, in which case they'd only have one), whereas many Americans have at least two personal names and one surname, with that second personal name being referred to as a "middle" name (I may be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that in Germany, the concept is just two "first" names).
The main example of this difference is found in the character Asuka Langley Sohryu from Evangelion, whose name in Japanese is rendered as Sohryu Asuka Langley. If the "middle" name remained in the middle, it would be Sohryu Langley Asuka, but it's not because that's not how Japanese names work!
So now on to the crux of the matter: Monkey D. Luffy. And let's not forget his known family, Monkey D. Dragon, Monkey D. Garp, Portgas D. Ace, and Sabo (the latter two added for completeness' sake). His name isn't D. Luffy Monkey, or Luffy D. Monkey, because, again, that's not how it works in Japan! It would be rendered as Luffy Monkey D., because "Monkey D." is his surname!
