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Originally Posted by Anubis62
In the words of Langus...it's "Deicide", not Decide.  |
Just looking at your last few posts on the subject, I just want to make sure you realize that the Deicide chapter titles aren't translations. Kubo writes nearly all of his chapter titles in English. One of the few things he does well (if not always regularly) is make meaningful (or at least poetic) chapter titles in a language foreign to him. And "deicide" had a fairly obvious connotation from the beginning.
Plus "Soul Reaper" is actually quite an apt translation of "shinigami". "Shinigami" (lit. "death god") in Japanese culture tend to be roughly analogous to the Grim Reaper, or Angels of Death in Western cultures. One of the universal roles of all of them, shared by the shinigami of Bleach, is to collect (reap) the souls of the dead, and/or lead them to the afterlife.