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.

Vandenreich and other related terms
Whilst I understand that the correct translation of the katakana is always going to be a source of contention until Kubo provides confirmation, I was hoping one of the more trusted translators can begin to provide accurate translations of at least the (literal) English for the following terms. Blackstar1 (talk) 00:33, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * - the 'の' used is seemingly dropped in chapter 487
 * - the 'の' used is seemingly dropped in chapter 487


 * * Several people, including myself, took a stab at both Vandenreich and the Iacto Arme thing, but Salubri moved them to the seventh page of this page's Archives, but the kanji that I saw there was different. --Reikson (talk) 06:20, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * * The kanji for the Hunting Captain is apparently Tōkatsu Shuryōtaichō and can be translated as "Controlling Safari Leader." --Reikson (talk) 06:20, April 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * * Additionally, "Iacto Arme" is apparently Latin, but good luck trying to find someone to translate THAT on such short notice. --Reikson (talk) 06:20, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

I was aware of the previous attempts but you've misinterpreted my intention here, as I merely wanted confirmation of the literal translations of the kanji and nothing more (e.g. 見えざる帝国 = Invisible Empire) because I understood that the German/Latin would always be contentious.

Anyway, could I ask your reason for interpreting 狩猟隊長 as "Safari Leader" rather than "Hunting Captain"? While I don't know Japanese, is typically translated as "captain" here and, both tangorin and other translators give 狩猟 as "hunting". Blackstar1 (talk) 12:13, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * That was an arbitrary decision on my part, because the translator I used said that 狩猟隊 translated this as "safari; troop of Hunters" hence why I did it. I don't speak Japanese, nor do I know its intricacies.  You'd be better off asking Adam Restling for his opinion, apparently. --Reikson (talk) 16:48, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for my absence, friends: daylight-savings time + computer trouble has been ****ing me up. But lo! I think I've some worthwhile insight at last, at least in certain areas, to be apportioned out in the below:

"Vandenreich" - I've no idea what this is supposed to mean in Kubo's shaky German derivation, except that Reich is German for "realm, kingdom" (still a common word despite its darkening in the Western imagination at large)--and in this I concur with the majority of other translators. Likewise, its underlying Kanji, 見えざる帝国, do seem to mean "invisible empire" (miezaru teikoku), again as others have said; the pronunciation katakana seem to be ヴァンデンライヒ Vandenraihi. If there's a secret, truer spelling of "Vandenreich", it may have to wait for another databook to tell us. The closest German words that could relate to "invisible" I could find were Wahn "delusion" (pronounced like [vān]) (but, sic, not *Wahnd(e)) or, more of s stretch, Wand "wall, barrier" (pronounced like [vānt]). It seems unlikely to mean, as some have suggested, of the realm, esp. since (at least in modern German) the element "of" is von, not *van, not to mention no apparent link with "invisible"; I hope Kubo tells us someday.

But the above name seems to confirm that German motif of the "Vandenreich" nomenclature, and a quick search of the katakana (thanks to Reikson and others for furnishing it) was, happily, illuminating: I'm pretty sure the martial force featured in the last two chapters is neither Spanish nor Latin, but actually meant to be the Jagdarmee "hunting army" (German Jagd "hunt(ing)" + Armee "army"). If the characters posted elsewhere are correct (not sure where to find easy raws), then they are 狩獵部隊 Shuryou Butai "hunting corps/force", with the pronunciation katakana ヤークトアルメー Yākutoarumē. The German form would be pronounced as something close to [yākt-ar-mē]; the to at the end of Yāku to  is merely part of Japanese phonological rules (with its phonemes needing to end in either a vowel or n).

If the Kanji are correct, again, then the Jagdarmee's leader is the "executive hunting captain" or "hunting captain general", 統括狩猟隊長 toukatsu shuryou taichou: toukatsu is "unification", but also used for "executive, general, supervising" (e.g. in toukatsu buchou "executive manager"), and taichou is our familiar word "captain" (more lit. "troop chief/head"; compare the origin of English captain from Latin caput, stem capit- "head"--itself the origin of chief, too). ... P.S. Did this one have any pronunciation katakana I don't know of?

Hope this helped. :) Adam Restling (talk) 08:08, April 9, 2012 (UTC)