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Isn't it a common transliteration of japanese to use R for L and show the devoiced U for voiceless consonant?

I'm pretty sure I've seen it used often when the intent is to show "japeneseness".

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I assume the mistake was the proper romanization of アイドル is aidoru.

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Indeed. Idoru would be pronounced like "ee-dol".

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As a kid I pronounced the title of the book ee-doh-ru

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ah, of course, thanks.