Talk:Day 321-330/Day 321/@comment-124.83.22.18-20151020105645

''[EDnote: [Prison Guard Violence Demon] also have alternative due to the kanji as[Tormenting violence Demon of Hell]. Feel free to choose.''

The second doesn't really follow, does it? The first two kanji would translate into "hell's tormenting devil" while the last kanji is simply demon (which I think people should be familiar with enough by now). 暴, which you've been translating into "violence", can also mean "outburst", "cruelty", "outrage", or "force". I think it's fine to translate 獄卒 as "tormentor" or "hell soldier" given that jigoku, which means "earth prison", can be translated as "hell". Although the "goku" in this case would only relate to the "prison" part of the translation, I think it's fine to take a shortcut here given the contextual association of "gokusotsu" to being demons in charge of punishing souls in hell.

Here's the wikipedia entry where the term shows up, located in the "Considerations" section of this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha_%28folklore%29

In One Piece (the manga), 獄卒 is also translated as Jailer. In essence, though, gokusotsu are associated with being hell's jailers.

The kana reading for 暴 is "aba", but in the kana reading given, the kanji's part in the name is read as "abare", which means "to act violently". So, given all this, I suggest translating the race as "Raging Jailer Demon" or "Tyrannic Jailer Demon".

If people are unsatisfied with any future suggestions given, the option remains to just leave that part as is (just as the wikipedia page does). There's nothing wrong with that, after all, as it's a very specific term. It's like "Asura". I suppose you could translate that as "violent deity", but it's already its own term. Or Cù Sìth, as another example. Selkie is another. Instead of trying to find a "proper" translation into English for these terms, they're accepted as names for mythological beings from their countries of orign.