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Originally Posted by Den-O

His literal actual name is Gridon. Aesir thought it would make more sense to try and back translate the joke of his name. Gridon gets his powers from a Dunguri lockseed, Donguri in English is Acorn. So since his seed is Donguri Hasse thought it would be funny to go with calling him Gridon which is Donguri more or less backwards.

Ornac is an attempt to make that joke more literal in English. Acorn - Ornac.

Ah I see. Yeah, I got the Ornac-Acorn bit, and part of me thought it may have had something to do with Aesir's subbing, didn't realize it was just Americanizing the Japanese pun.