eli5: how does romaji work with english names?

Question

if my name is Victor then the Japanese name would be ヴィクトル but then why does the romaji spelling become Vikutoru instead of Victor?

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Answer 1

Romanji is one of three phonetic Japanese scripts that adapt the Japanese phonemes into writing. The only difference between it and Hiragana and Katakana is that it uses the Latin alphabet instead of the usual Japanese characters. Your name is being written using Japanese pronunciation rules, so it’s going to look weird, even in Romanji.