question on Thunder Spears translation
What do you think about the name âthunder spearâ? Shouldnât it be 'lightning spearâ as lightning wouldâve damaged that tree Hanji showed the squad; lightning would have the explosive capabilities to accomplish that, thunder is just the sound it would make. I personally think it may have been a mistranslation.
Thank you @enjikinda for this question, I hope you wonât mind that I made this separate post to explain, the original post content is too long.
The original name is éˇć§ďźăăăă (Rai Sou) éˇ = thunder/lightning bolt ć§ = spear
When the term made its debut in ch 75, it was not explained what is the reason behind its naming. In Japanese, whether when someone is struck by lightning or it is thundering, same [éˇ] kanji is used.
éˇăŤćăăă = struck by lightning éˇăéł´ăŁăŚăă = it is thunderingÂ
I translated it as âThunder Spearâ because it was rough translation, but apparently crunchyroll also uses the same term. I think I can understand why we chose the word âThunderâ instead of âLightningâ is because in Japan there is the term called âéˇçĽâ = God of Thunder. I viewed the kanji as an element [thunder element] and I suspect the same thing happened for the crunchyroll translator.
Now we already know the reason behind itâs naming and my friend pointed out to me that both name can work too, thunder for the loud explosion because they did all cover their ears and lightening for the blast. But I think âlightning spearâ sounds more accurate after finding out the naming reason. Hope this helps.
