It's "Marie", not "Mar-ee-ay"

[FroBodine]

Sheesh! Who pronounces it that way except for poor translators?

[Jouchebag]

They tend to use the Japanese pronunciation in these cases because it's a name. It's not a translation. It's a name with a specific pronunciation.

[Kalypso]

Well considering we had a Marie in Persona 4 and it was pronounced like normal, gonna say it's intentional the way they pronounce it in this game.

[Geist]

Might as well go all in. They call Ann Ahn.

[Ringlet]

I didn't play english dub. But...

In original japanese language :-
・Marie (P5T) is マリエ (as for Maa-Ree-Ay)
・Ann (P5) is 杏 (as for Ahn)
・Marie (P4) is マリー (as for Maa-Ree)

The first 2 names are literally japanese names, which happened to look like western names when written in romaji.
So, I think they just translated those names based on original pronounciation.

[Oni-Lyrics]

the same people who pronounce jojo joejoe

[Chaøs]

Well, they created the character. They can spell it Marie and call it John if they want to

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Chaøs:

Well, they created the character. They can spell it Marie and call it John if they want to

Wouldn't work as good the other way around.

Marie Wick doesn't have the same punch.

[Chaøs]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Originally posted by Chaøs:

Well, they created the character. They can spell it Marie and call it John if they want to

Wouldn't work as good the other way around.

Marie Wick doesn't have the same punch.

You have a point.

[juntaru]

I'm pretty sure they use this prononciation because "mariée" ("Mar-ee-ay") in french means "Bride".

[Kollie]

poor translators are when names are pronounced correctly....little bro thought he was cooking with this post lol