Talk:Day 241-250/@comment-26898460-20150817044156/@comment-124.83.22.177-20150830190032

Metazoxan, 地 is Earth and 獄 is Prison. Together, it's Earth Prison. Thus, it translates to Hell. Jigoku. Calling the race Infernal Earth would be wrong because the character for Earth does not repeat. The only reason the word "Hell" is in the race title is because 地獄 are together. "Earth Prison" is a Japanese description for hell.

Also, I do not agree with translating that as Infernal because it's not what the word is conveying. It should be translated as a noun, not an adjective. If you're going to translate something, do it properly. Some liberties can be taken in word choice, and considering the sentence structure of Japanese grammar it is necessary to rearrange sentences at times, but you're just ignoring grammar entirely. I mean, why did you even think "Guard" should be added?

As for why I believe it should be Hell Gate rather than Hell's Gate, just look at the word 'doorway'. Hell Gate conveys much the same thing. Just as a doorway is a space for where a door may be placed, a "Hell Gate" would be a gate that leads to hell. It's different from Hell's Gate which connotes ownership. So rather than a noun, it's a descriptor noun (another example would be "word origin", which convets a different meaning to "word's origin"; the latter arrangement would indicate the origin of only one word while the former is more general, which is what I believe 地獄 is supposed to be). If you still feel unsure of the word, let me reassure you that the usage is still correct. I've got some skill in English linguistics.

Lastly, Lord is definitely not present within the race name (neither is there a character that means King in the name). The last kanji in the race name stands for "ghost" (an evil spirit in this context) or "devil". Best to go with "demon" as we know Asue still belongs within the demon family, rather than the devil family, although demon has been used to describe a boss monster that belonged to the devil family. It's hard to think of another way to translate oni if demon and devil are taken up by some other family. The difference between the two seems to be that the devil family is associated with a more "spiritual" image while oni seem more like "earthly" demons (all the races we know of associated with the oni family are flesh eating monsters, or blood sucking in some cases).