Talk:Hell Demon King/@comment-124.83.22.18-20151022102908/@comment-4784862-20151023194151

First off, i know this is semantics...but the romanji for Asue's race name is Jigoku Enki. ^^

Why would you translate  閻鬼  as Judge though? Hell Judge actually doesn't sound bad, so I'm not really opposed to it (other than the fact that that doesn't literally MEAN Judge), but I want to know how/why you came up with it, other than simply making it Judge symbolically.

None of the racial names up to this point have been produced straight from symbolism, though they have symbolism ATTACHED to them (like Rou's Vajrayaksa Overlord)...that I know of, anyway. They were all pretty easy to figure out and/or easy to say "Yeah, this should be like THIS instead of straight up translating it." - It's possible that it's meant to just be "Hell Enki"...but that implies that we need to treat those two kanji as they're a name, which they aren't in this case.

Really, though...I think it's probably just best to go with Asfer Raja or Asfel Raja. We don't really have to translate THAT...though I am interested to know if there's a translation for the "Asufe~ru" that comes out if you use some word made up of those phonetics...and whether it would match up with the rest of the kanji (since, y'know, Raja means King in some asian countries and whatnot). We did some searching around, but I don't recall us being able to find anything.

I tried (as did at least a couple of othrs) a number of things before and couldn't really come up with anything myself, though.