(つ°ヮ°)つ this is what I do I- actually... I don't think you can do what I did. So when I started reading Chinese novels when I was a kid, I also got into the same problem as you. I kept forgetting the names. So what I did was I learnt basic, like really basic mandarin. Because of this, I could remember the english names whenever I translated them BACK into Chinese. Stupid, but it works.
