Bleach Wiki:Translation Corner

The Translation Corner is a group of Bleach Wiki users who the task to translate the various names, abilities, techniques and etc. found in the Bleach Universe. Being that Bleach is a Japanese manga that use Japanese, Chinese, Indian, German, Spanish and English language in various instances and cases, the use of translators are a focal point to the continuation of accuracy on the wiki. All users should read our Translation Guidelines before you start translating.

Roles of the Translation Corner
The following are the duties of the corner:


 * 1. To assure the correctness of all translations that are presented on the site.


 * 2. To determine the outcome of Contentious Translations: If a translation is questioned at all, that should be brought up in this section. In this way a translator, committee member or admin can explain why the translation is used or conversation can take place for translations that are harder to classify.


 * 3. To determine the correct translation of Zanpakutō (names, release calls, etc.): This section is for requests for translation of zanpakuto and zanpakuto related translations.


 * 4. To determine the correct translation of Character and element (e.g. devices) names: This section is for requests for translation of characters/techniques/equipment and general key words.


 * 5. To determine the correct translation of General/Other translation issues (e.g. conjugation/miscellanea): This section is for requests about translations that dont fit any particular criteria such as conjugation or such things such as accents used in the names.

Associate Members

 * Adam Restling (Primary Japanese Translator)
 * MarqFJA (Secondary Japanese Translator)
 * (Japanese)
 * Lia Schiffer (Primary Spanish Translator)

References & Sources

 * Kanji-to-English:
 * Tangorin
 * Mahou Kanji Dictionary
 * Kanji Networks
 * OldNihongo.J-Talk.Com
 * Basic Japanese verbal data: The imperative inflection of Japanese verbs

Associate Box
Ok folks I have finally gotten around to makeing the Associate Box. You can put it on your user page using the command. Below is what the box looks like. Tinni  (Talk)  14:37, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

Translation Guidelines

 * Anyone doing any form of translation. Looking up on Google Translator or similar translations tools, is not translating. You are not doing the site any favors by doing amateur translation. Please refrain from using such tools.


 * This is not a conversation page. It is a simple question and answer page for translation. All conversations should be held on a particular user talk page or the the talk page of this page.


 * Users should simply place their request and wait for it to be answered. To keep it simple, if the user posting the request has no real understanding of translation, the point is not for you to learn how to translate here. Usage of the page should extend no more then to asking for a translation to be done. Please refrain from badgering the translators for understanding on why a translation is translated a certain way. If you knew anything about translation you wouldn't be asking someone else to do it, therefore it makes no sense to argue with them.

Luders Friegen
I know you can't confirm the official English spelling for this dude, but I think I have found the Katakana for this dude "リューダス・フリーゲン" (Ryūdasu Furīgen) But the thing is I can't find the damn RAW for this chapter to confirm it. So I figured I'd bring this to your attention because I thought you might know the answer :) --Kisukeiscool100396 (talk) 20:48, April 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried to check this on some of my usu. sources, but the BLEACH Japanese Wiki, a good source for katakana etc., is woefully behind on updates: they still barely have any data on the Fullbringers (!).


 * A Japanese tweet @tite_kubo seems to confirm, or at least strongly hint, that your rendering above, リューダス・フリーゲン (Ryūdasu Furīgen), is correct for the name's katakana. The tweeter amusedly says that the name reminds them of アンダース・フリーデン (Andāsu Furīden), i.e. Anders Fridén, lead singer of Swedish metal band In Flames.


 * The fact that the katakana uses  Ryū dasu instead of  Rū dasu would seem to suggest that the tentative romanization *could* be Lüders--since katakana generally adapts the German diaeresis u (= ü ) with yu--but, as you said, there's no way to know how Kubo would romanize it, officially, yet. Adam Restling (talk) 07:03, April 11, 2012 (UTC)