There's a apocryphal story about a translator at an anime convention being asked why he changed a name in the English dub, using an L sound, where the name in J

There's a apocryphal story about a translator at an anime convention being asked why he changed a name in the English dub, using an L sound, where the name in Japanese used an R sound. The translator's response was a very flat "Because 'Alucard' is 'Dracula' spelled backwards."