The Official Name Explanations Thread

[ScottyFamalam]

Katakana: ウーブ
Hepburn: Ūbu
Shuiesha: Oob
Toei: Oob
BandaI: Oob
Funimation: Uub
Viz: Oob

Katakana is ウーブ (Ūbu). Officially romanized all over Japan as "Oob". Funimation went with "Uub". Viz kept it as "Oob".

It's just supposed to be "Boo" backwards.

Oo = ウー = Ū.
B = ブ = bu.

He's Oob.

tl;dr He's Oob, not Uub.

 

[ScottyFamalam]

Oh, it seems that starting in 2019, pretty much all official Japanese products use the same spellings and romanizations as Funimation. "Krillin" is now used instead of "Klilyn", "Frieza" instead of "Freeza", "Buu" instead of "Boo", "Gokou" instead of "Goku", "Vegito" instead of "Vegetto" (ironically, Funimation now uses "Vegetto"), etc . This seems to be part of "brand unification" on Shuiesha, Toei, Bandai, etc's end.

They even changed "Gokou" to "Goku" on rereleases of old Carddass sets.

Original 1996 release:

2023 rerelease:

Of course, the nerds at Kanzenshuu were livid.