User blog comment:Gourgeist/User Miskos3/@comment-2214433-20131109133331

Well, as explained below, it has been stated by Kodansha USA that their name romanizations are officially approved by Isayama, the manga author. So we were kind of forced to change all the spelling to represent Kodansha's names as we cannot ignore official information. Trust me, I dislike several of these changes, I'd so love to keep Jaeger instead of Yeager and don't let me start on how weird I find Hanji's name change.