Henry's Cavern

Arronyo Rasmussen · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

Aizen-sama ftw! Yosh!

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:53 pm Post subject:

Ha, just read the latest chapter.

I love seeing that loser Hitsugaya in agony. Go Aizen.
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Arronyo Rasmussen · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject:

Poor Momo-chan,though. A necessary sacrifice for the cause.

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:01 am Post subject:

It's Bleach, so I doubt the damage is permanent.

She's been impaled by a sword and survived before. Should be fine.
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Arronyo Rasmussen · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:03 am Post subject:

True.

kiba-sama · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 27

I am so far behind in watching the show and manga that it isn't even funny Sad

I need to get caught up ^^

Arronyo Rasmussen · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject:

Holy crap,Wonderweiss' released form is messed up.

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:20 pm Post subject:

Ha, that chapter was actually pretty cool.
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Arronyo Rasmussen · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:40 am Post subject:

Yamamoto gonna get fucked up.

Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

I found that Shinigami is officially translated as Soul Reaper in Japan now. Which is better than how Kubo sometimes translated Shinigami as Death, even if that is a more direct English translation.
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"A butt-emphasizing character."

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:15 am Post subject:

Soul Reaper has been the English translation here for a while now. I suppose they're doing it to keep it uniform.

Death really doesn't work for the translation as it aplies to Bleach, so it really does make a lot more sense, even if some western fans refuse to acknowledge the term.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

I knew about the term "Soul Reaper" in the English dub (I don't know about the English manga though). Kubo used "Death" earlier since shinigami means "god of death" literally, but it was coined to translate "personification of death" (which is shortened to simply "death" at times) or "Grim Reaper" into Japanese. For a while I refered to the Bleach Shinigami as "Reapers", but decided to go with the majority when I started fan fiction and wait to see if a more official English translation came out.
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"A butt-emphasizing character."

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:27 am Post subject:

Yeah, the "Grim Reaper" (also called "Death") is the appropriate western equivalent of a shinigami from what I understand, but that wouldn't particularly work well for Bleach either. Simply calling them reapers would be adequate, but I find "Soul Reaper" does make it more precise.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

A word like shinigami is actually out of place for such a Japanese-inspired place like Soul Society because the word was made specifically to refer to Western mythological concepts of death. Then again, the name Soul Society is hardly Japanese. It is possible Kubo was unaware of shinigami being coined for solely Western concepts and the word was only retroactively applied to Oriental concepts.

I did hear somewhere that Kubo claimed to haved like the term "Soul Reaper", after the English dub but I never read this myself in an interview.
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"A butt-emphasizing character."

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:02 am Post subject:

I seem to recall hearing that myself. It is a good term for it, even if some fans over here refuse to admit it.
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