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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

There is literally no "V" sound in Japanese. Hence pronunciations like "Baiolet" for Violet, "Bui" for V, etc...

That katakana is used to translate "V"/"Vu" phonetics from other languages, yes, but functionally it's still pronounced "Bu."

Sure, I know it's only a minor difference. But "vu" and its family are used to emphasize the v sound instead, otherwise they would've just used "bu" like they did for Drive (Doraibu). As a recent example, Valvarad is read with "Va" followed by "ba", so the intention is to emphasize the first kana.