Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-30711988-20170327160055/@comment-30711988-20170328183459


 * >I've decided for the latter to make a "compromise" translation as "void air" despite it sounding redundant, since just "dubbing" that from "Kokuu" makes it sound very weird (a bit of a lipsync thing).

How about we translate the whole name instead? 虚空陣 > Empty Formation (陣), and 虚空刃 > Empty Blade.


 * 刻 : Sure can mean "cruelty", but it is also another form of 時, "time", and is used to signify a time of day. Now, "carving-killing blade" or "cruelty-killing blade" don't make much sense, but "time-killing" actually does make sense, especially considering that Hakumen's "Time Killer", which is used to "kill time" is also written as "刻殺". Makes me think the ability and blade can be related, but it's a theory.