[asveikau]

Having no Japanese language skills I pasted that into Google translate. Then inserted spaces between glyphs until one part of it (vich) translated as "bitch".

Aside: there are a lot of languages where /b/ and /v/ move around. Eg. Romance languages during the vulgar Latin period. Today in Spanish these are pronounced identically.

[Arnavion]

マンコビッチ == MA-N-KO-BI-CCHI

manko is slang for vagina. bicchi is borrowed from English "bitch", but is used more like English "slut"

That said, those Russians could've used ヴィッチ WI-CCHI, such as in https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3... So why does Mankovich use BI but Markovich uses WI ? Because expecting katakana spellings to make sense is already too much to ask for, let along expecting them to be consistent.

(Bonus: sandwich uses neither BI nor WI. It uses I. SA-N-DO-I-CCHI)

[orthoxerox]

I wonder if Russia's ever offered Japan a better, more central location for their embassy. In Yakimanka district.

[james_s_tayler]

You shoulda pasted it into image search.

マンコ is pussy and ビッチ (bitch) is slut. So, it's like "nice to meet you, I'm pussy slut" and then handing someone a business card.

I remember seeing it come up as example of unfortunate foreign names in Japanese when watching some variety program once. I cracked up pretty hard at that one. Though I've encountered a doozy in real life too, though it escapes me exactly what it was now.

[blaser-waffle]

That's Arkady Pussy-slut, thank you very much

[james_s_tayler]

Which im sure some poor soul will mishear as "Pussy-Slut Academy" once the names are reversed and Arkady is put into Katakana and it's late into a night of drinking at the mandatory after work drinks. Hahaha.