Bleach Wiki:Translation Corner

The Translation Corner is a place where a group of users can get together and help maintain the wiki by keeping it up to date on the actual translations of the various names, abilities, techniques and etc. found in the Bleach Universe.

Associate Members

 * Adam Restling (Japanese)
 * MarqFJA (Japanese)
 * Lia Schiffer (Spanish)
 * マルセロ - Marcelo (Spanish)

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

Big Mouth
Hey :) I need a Kanji+Romanji check for this guy from episode 208. Many thanx in advance!! WD   Talk to me  13:59, September 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hiyori first says his name at about 11:52 into the episode. Hope it helps... WD   Talk to me  17:08, October 2, 2010 (UTC)

Sayori
Hey, I need the romanization and kanji for Sayori from Episode 173. I also need the romanization and kanji for Sacchi as well (same person - different name). Thanks! TheDevilHand888 (talk) 01:13, October 5, 2010 (UTC)

New names on chapter 428
Hi. We have the main new character (probably) of this arc, Kūgo Ginjō, whose name was revealed in page 20 of the chapter. There are two more characters whose names were revealed in pages 6 and 7 of the chapter. Thanks in advance for your work. WD  Converse  11:33, November 25, 2010 (UTC)

Xcution
Hi. Could you please tell me the katakana for Xcution? It appears in the last page of plot in 430 (which is either 19 or 20). It occurred to me that it might be originally in English, in which case it would be great if you could provide the proper katakana and romanji for the word. WD  Converse  15:42, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

It was rendered in romanized letters as XCUTION (エクスキューション Ekusukyūshon). Interestingly, the sound/letter x ("eks") is usually rendered by Japanese ekkusu (エックス), with the doubled-k. Either エクス in "XCUTION" is a goof to be resolved in a future chapter, or Kubo is using the variant to clue us in/indicate that he does means it to pronounced without the two first vowels or something, like maybe as [(EH)KSKYOO-shən]. Adam Restling (talk) 09:44, January 3, 2011 (UTC)

Conflicting translation of Rukia Statement
While checking info on Renji's article, I noticed that there is a difference between the scanned manga version (by MangaRain) and the anime sub. Can you please verify if Rukia was saying that the enormous reiatsu belonged to Renji or to the unknown person (Byakuya). 20:30, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

MASKED Character Book
For some semblance of order, I am putting all masked related stuff in this section. Tinni  (Talk)  05:59, August 22, 2010 (UTC)

Kubo's comments on new characters
I uploaded the two pages from Kubo's interview in which he comments on the new characters. It would be a great if we could get a general gist of what Kubo is saying for their profiles. Thanks. Tinni  (Talk)  17:44, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Guess Characters In Bleach: Hell (Inferno)?
Was wondering can you guys translate this?

Soulreaper1234 (talk) 09:41, October 4, 2010 (UTC)

The only thing I was able to read out from this (because I know zero Japanese, I was just searching for Kanji and copy-pasting them in Wikipedia lol) was that the guy in the infobox on the top (I'm guessing he's the seiyuu for the guy with white hair) is Kazuya Nakai who alzo voiced One Piece's Zoro. The one in the bottom (seiyuu for the guy with purple hair?) is Toru Furuya, who also voiced Yamcha in Dragon Ball. As I said, I don't read Kanji, so that's all the information I can make out from it. Lia Schiffer  (Talk)  05:06, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry; I've gotten backed-up on some of the more lengthy (and for me difficult) trans. things, but hopefully can do more soon. Adam Restling (talk) 18:59, October 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Check out some of me *finally* playing catch-up re: The Hell Arc here XD.

Concerning something about episode 299
Apparently, the bad guys of this saga are collectively known as Togabito, which are apparently translated as Sinner. Here's the thing; when I looked up "Sinner" and its kanji, I got this; 罪人. --Reikson (talk) 21:36, November 30, 2010 (UTC)

Hm, those kanji can be read as "zainin" or "tsumibito," both of which translate as "sinner." However, from what I've found, the kanji used for Togabito is 咎人, but according to Tangorin these are read as "toganin," and translate as "offender" or "criminal." I'm not exactly sure how the same kanji behave when paired differently, so I'm pretty confused. Mohrpheus  (Talk)  22:06, November 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, 人 can be read as "hito" and slurred to "bito" when used as part of a compound word. But you're right, the behavior is very unusual.  But there's technically nothing wrong with the word or the pronunciation. --Reikson (talk) 23:27, November 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Mohrpheus is correct in that the Kanji of togabito are actually 咎人 "offender, culprit, criminal" (more lit. "fault/blame-one/person") and not 罪人 "sinner"--you can see this in the Japanese of the picture above (under the "Guess Characters In Bleach: Hell (Inferno)?" heading) at the end of the first line of data on the first character. While "crime," "fault," "blame" and "sin" are easy to interchange, toga is usu. associated more with the first three, and tsumi / zai more with the last.


 * As Reikson stated, a suffixal -hito can become voiced to -bito via rendaku. Note that hito is the native Japanese reading of 人, while -nin, -jin are the readings of 人 derived, via borrowing, from (older) Chinese --prob. from or from a source akin to Late Middle Chinese. As for why the movie switched more usu. -nin for its native equivalent of -bito, maybe it was merely a bid to distinguish these special prisoners (of Hell) from the common usage of just "prisoner" in general; i.e. when people hear toganin, they think normal captives, but hearing togabito will help them note that it refers to BLEACH criminals of Hell. Adam Restling (talk) 07:22, December 12, 2010 (UTC)