Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-26083816-20150207025822/@comment-1426621-20150806044410

Raydhen wrote: Nope, Varan of course comes from Varanus. His name written in Katakana ( バラン ).

Bara you just mentioned, which means rose as well as gay comic genre, written in kanji (薔薇 )

Well the reason for it being Baran is because Japanese vowels don't include "Va" so they have to replace with something similar hence "Ba" vowel.