Board Thread:Castlevania Wiki General Discussion/@comment-1395837-20140904133050/@comment-3236835-20140904145612

I would vote for Akumajō.

In fact, for many years everything I've written related to the series was as Akuma-Jou, and it's up until recently that I took the decision of changing to Akumajō instead. Then again, I wouldn't know the correct spelling of the word because I wouldn't be able to learn Japanese even if my mom's life depended on it.

Regarding to Konami using Akumajo, let's just remember that they suck at translating their products for foreign lands. I guess they wouldn't care if they put a chimpanzee with a suit in an office trying to win his salary, to translate one of their titles. In that case, we would also have to consider Akumajyo, as it appeared in The Dracula X Chronicles. I've never seen the name spelled as Akumajoh, though.

It's not only that Akumajō is used by Wikipedia. Through all these years, that's the way I have seen it written more often, and I guess that's the way that has been more accepted by the public. I only suppose that because of the difficulty it takes to type an "ō" instead of an "o" on a standard keyboard is the reason why it isn't used more frequently.