Sight in japanese
 

I am working in my manga pilot (name/nemu), and i want to name the main character "sight" because of his ability. So if you could translate sight into romanji, i'll appreciate it.

Translate or transliterate?

The former won't work for a name. It almost never does.

If you wanted the latter, then it would be サイト .

EDIT: Forgot to give romaji. Saito

Thanks for the help.

Any reason you can't use a language you speak?

What's a "manga pilot"?

I think it's where you tie a piece of string to a trained rat and put it into your wall to eat the termites (the string is so you can pull him out incase of trouble).

Thanks for your help.

In all seriousness, I suspect the guy is making a comic book but wants some "mystical Asian names."

I've had some recent experiences with artists/authors who needed to verify some Japanese because they have a character ending up in Japan as part of the plot and wanted to use dialogue to show how fish-out-of-water the character was. So I'm now more patient with people who need that type of translation.

But "I want to give my character a fake, quasi- not-actually-Japanese name that uses Japanese sounds but English vocabulary for some mystical quality that only Americans obsessed with an artificial image of Japan will enjoy"?

I don't get that.

However, OP can convince me otherwise and put me in my place. I'll apologize if there is a good reason for wanting to name your character サイト. Hell, if a Japanese-speaking person even sees サイト or "Saito," they're going to assume it means "site," right? “サイト”の検索結果（1737 件）：英辞郎 on the Web：スペースアルク

It is a one-shot manga, in other words it is only a one issue manga, usually between 15 to 60 pages.

Moreover Saito is also a Japanese name, so they might not thing about Sight and just take it as Saito....am I wrong?