Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-30711988-20170327160055/@comment-5370131-20170327214327

Nue

This term is basically a Japanese-exclusive term, since it's mainly for a Japanese-type of Chimera. If Hibiki's Nue isn't translated then neither should Hakumen's.

骸

This seems to lean towards the type of "corpse" or "hull" kind of body as opposed to an actual body. There's multiple kanji for this so I don't prefer to mix it up for the "karada" type of body (体).

Face Monster wrote:
 * Hizanshou : Hibiki's naming theme is "birds". Wings, feathers, birds. So, it would make more sense to translate 飛 in Hizanshou as "rook", since it's a bird, not as "flying". Reference; Kokuu: 虚空 is "empty air", indeed. Reference. But how is "empty air" different from "void"?

Derp, yeah that makes sense. 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).

And you're right about the rook part. I'm still not sure if I want to leave it translated as Soaring Slash however. I've just looked at tangorin's version and yes, it indeed translates as rook.

Bang's "Shouten Funsai Bang Otoshi Kai"

This one is a bit of a nitpick since I remembered Chunli's Tenshoukyaku. That move basically reverses the order of the "shouten" term (making it "heaven rising") instead of ("rising heaven"). I personally felt that Chunli's version of it made the context more suitable for "ascension" (as a "heavenly rise") as opposed to "rising heaven". But if you want to revert that part of the translation I've figured I shouldn't stop you.