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Small question about romanizing long vowels

BigBoss4

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Just a small question, why is it that in some japanese media/texts they sometimes omit the final vowel of lengthened vowels?

e.g.
Kyuu (キュウ/キュー) becomes kyu, or Ryuuga (龍牙) becomes Ryuga (without the macrons/circumflexes)
I've tried searching for similar topics (and on the net) but they keep referring to using Hepburn romanization.
 
I think when you use hiragana style , you can add for the vowel another sound to be come long like ,
(キュ here you can this ウ)

but in katakana , you've to add ー to make the vowel long .
 
Wiki has the explanation.

Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia
 
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