Am I the only person that took so long to grasp the clever joke here????

:rolleye

I'm guessing not, because I've done a search of this forum, and I cannot find anyone mentioning it at all. In fact, I find people posting the names as "School of Locks! (plural) and YUI Lock! (singular/non-verb)

If you're still not getting the humor, here are a couple jokes that might help.

What do you call a woman with one leg shorter than the other??

Ilene.

What do you call a Japanese woman with one leg shorter than the other??

Irene.

It's that whole Japanese/English R/L confusion....and they are intentionally playing on it!! Why did this take me so long to grasp???

So when I finally realized it I did what I should have done in the first place...I looked it up on Wikipedia, and sure enough, check it out.

Suku-ru Obu Rokku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Of_Lock%21

(Of course, by calling it School of Lock! they can also avoid any copyright or trademark infringement issues as well. Doubly clever.)

Lol. I was pretty confused too when I first knew about it. And if you notice, at the end of each session, YUI stressed on the Locks starting with L and not R. I didn't thought about the copyright issue so that could be the main reason.

yeah i think it was meant to be Rocks too... but then again... they got that really good english sounding guy to say YUI Locks

From Japanese wikipedia:

未来の鍵を握る学校なので、「音楽ジャンル」のROCKではなく「鍵」のLOCKとなっている。しかし、正しいLOCKの意味は錠前であり、「鍵」は英語ではKEYである。

School of Locks is a school which holds the key for the future. Hence 'lock' which means 'key' (in some sense), not the rock genre.

Keys = locks, playing on word lol.

YUI, during end of each YUI LOCKS episode: The spelling of rokku is the one starts with 'L'.