Talk:Fujimaru Kudō

Translations of items in the article
At Arrancar109's request, I'm checking into errors and missing kana/kanji here. For more data on a similar page, check out http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Matsuri_Kudo.

Boldfaced elements represent the boldfaced elements in the article for easier browsing; however, my entries below are my suggestions for what the article's entries should be changed to. Here we go:

Fujimaru Kudō (宮能藤丸 Kudō Fujimaru)

Ryūjōmaru (竜条丸 Dragon Brander)

Kokyū Ryūjōmaru (虎糾竜条丸 Tiger-seeking Dragon Brander)

Kokyū Zesshō (虎糾絶衝 Tiger-seeking Finishing-thrust)

Notes

jō in Ryūjōmaru can mean both "article, item" and "stripe, streak; ray (of light)." I chose "brand" because it covers all these, in English, nicely: "article, item" (brand as in a type of thing), "stripe, streak; ray of light" (brand as in a mark, and the thing used to make this mark). "Brand" became "Brander" in the final name used above because I "translate" the masculine name suffix -maru with the all-purpose English suffix -er.

The element -kyū is generally "seek, ask," whence the translation "tiger-seeking" for Kokyū. Also note that in Asian folklore, the dragon and the tiger are mortal enemies, like the mongoose and the cobra. Thus, Fujimaru's Zanpakutou is the "tiger-seeking," and his sister's (see her article) is the "dragon-seeking."

Zesshō is made up of zetsu "finish, cut off (so as to bring to an end)" + shō "clash, (piercing) thrust"--the same as in Getsuga Tenshō.

For much more explanation on these elements, please see Matsuri Kudō's article's Talk Page in the link at the top, underneath my header. Note also that since I focused on these items, I wasn't looking for any other mistakes in the article--especially grammatical etc.--so I might've missed some.

I leave these reasons here, but I'll leave the actual editing to others, lest I somehow unknowingly violate templates like Twocents was angry at me for doing earlier. Let me know if you have any questions. Adam Restling 12:43, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

Can anyone add the kanji and translation of the shikai ability? Can anyone add an image of Fujimaru using shunko?D38edooa 22:32, May 20, 2010 (UTC)