It works in Japanese since their language is phonetic.
The three letters that make up the name Mario for them are MA-RI-O. Rearrange that and you get O-RI-MA ... or, Olima, which can be easily extended into Olimaa, and the long aa sound is the way the Japanese approximate the -ar sound, in in my name, Carmine, it is Kaa-main.
Hence, it works.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com