![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jkk2Y.jpg)

I'm in the middle of my painting and I don't want the name to be wrong cause
the whole thing takes me days. Please help if you can :)
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katakana typesetting
Is this the right way to write Sailor Pluto in Japanese?
If those vertical bars with a concave outline are supposed to be 「ー」, then
this is technically correct if the reader can guess how they should be read.

Usually vertical writing is top-to-down and right-to-left, though, so this
looks as weird as

```

    wr
    it
    ing
    
```

(okay you got the point) like this.

Here is an example of how (manga) sound effects are normally written:

[![manga
sfx](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wmxfb.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wmxfb.gif)

>   * どきっ
>   * ワーッ
>   * ザー
>   * ドドーン
>   * ざわざわ
>   * ガキィンッ
>
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As Logan mentions in the comments, your sketch seems to be missing the `ー`
([chouonpu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Donpu)). It's important and
should not be omitted (though it sometimes happens in informal writing). Note
that in vertical writing it is [also written
vertically](https://www.slideshare.net/Accura/vertical-layout-in-katakana).
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No, this looks horribly odd to me. This is as bad and cryptographic as this:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NHl2K.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NHl2K.png)

Virtually everyone who is fluent in Japanese _will_ misread this at first
sight, although perhaps most will eventually notice what is the intended
meaning if her picture were with this.

This is how the characters should normally be aligned in case you didn't know:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SiCc2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SiCc2.png)

As a design work, you can move the positions of the characters like this while
maintaining readability:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVhCi.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVhCi.png)

Real-world good examples would be [this](http://www.smashbros.com/jp/) and
[this](http://g-tekketsu.com/). But don't let those vertical bars come
completely beside the preceding characters.
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