Forum:Misnomers

I've been poking around the pages, and it's occured to me - there are quite a few misnomers throughout the series.

Ones that immediately come to mind:
 * Harribel's attack Proyectil Azul that's colored yellow
 * Nel's attack Lanzador Verde that's colored violet
 * Luppi's Resurrecion translates as Ivy Girl, but he's male
 * Apache's Resurrecion, in Japanese, means Blue Deer Battle Girl, but nothing on her is colored blue
 * Ikkaku's Hozukimaru - shikai form. Means demon light, but looks neither demonic nor is it a light-type Zanpakuto (although the bankai name is fitting given its appearance, as that has the light element, looks a bit demonic, and has the dragon crest)
 * Kaien's Nejibana - name for a flower, but shikai form is water-type rather than earth-type
 * Momo's Tobiume - means flying plum tree, but shoots fireballs, which would destroy a plum tree

There were a couple others that occured to me, but they seemed more debateable. I can understand that the color ones may just be the anime taking its liberties, but the name ones surprise me, since Tite selected them himself, and selected their abilities (presumably). I wonder why he made them differ from their names? Twocents 19:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I mostly question this more with Harribel and Nel's attacks more than anything else, since the translations of their techniques have both a Japanese and a Spanish translation. But then again, I'd chalk it up as a mistake on the Anime crew's part, unless Kubo either had colored pages of Proyectil Azul and Lanzador Verde released, or told them what color to make the techniques. We'll never know, unless we see a confirmed interview that states why these attacks are the way they are. Though, interestingly enough, Bleach: Versus Crusade had Nel's attack green-colored instead of violet, including Lanzador Verde. Arrancar109 23:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Do we really have enough information to say definitively that Proyectil Azul is yellow? Sure everything she has done so far in the anime along those lines has been yellow, but I don't believe Projectil Azul was actually used until it was named, there were only similar attacks, so there is still technically a chance for it to be blue (Note: I haven't played the games to know if it was used by name or not, from the article i'm inferring that it wasn't). For Luppi, just look at him, I don't believe anyone would think that he was a male if not for the voice actor and pronouns, maybe it's Kubo's way of putting in subtle transvestite humor (or just allowing for yet another fetish fan pairing). Apache's Cierva, is probably a reference to the blue she lost when she released. As for Zanpakutō names, I don't believe they're relevant, most of them are symbolic rather than literal like the arrancar (think of momo's fireballs as plums and the blade and it's protrusions as the tree) Ancient Chaos 01:38, 16 August 2009 (UTC)