Current Events ‘Warrior God’ is a Fake Translation - Viz Official Translation is ‘Godhead’

[Sir Yasheen]

If war/warrior gods make sense in every other translations, why wouldn't it be in English? What's so special?

Stephen just didn’t want to sound wordy so he made a worst translation just to shorten it

 

[ArturCantSpeakJapanese]

If war/warrior gods make sense in every other translations, why wouldn't it be in English? What's so special?

A translator who is so narcissist he feels like an embarrassing failure if he translates something the same way as early leaks

 

[Malio]

If war/warrior gods make sense in every other translations, why wouldn't it be in English? What's so special?

Just Stephen being a narcisstic weirdo as per usual

 

[Nidai_Kitetsu]

the tl;dr version of it is that he felt "warrior god of X" etc was a bit wordy so was trying to find a single word equivalent, but couldn't find one that fit perfectly and eventually settled on "godhead", particularly because it also ties in with the holy theme that Oda's going with re. Imu.

Okay I have found that part of the podcast. Stephen was basically focusing on the divine aspect of their title. A few interesting things he said:
- The katakana of Nerona can be rearranged into Kami which would mean God. We already knew Imu means Buddha in Kanji version. Note that the Nerona part was first revealed in the same chapter
- Gorosei's titles are basically job titles
- Given Oda's wordplay with Nerona Imu's name, Stephen was being creative with some holy terminology while translating Gorosei's titles

 

[Bisoromi Bear]

Just Stephen being a narcisstic weirdo as per usual

Cry

 

[Malio]

Cry

Yrc

 

[Bisoromi Bear]

Yrc

Egnirc

 

[Malio]

Egnirc

Cringe

 

[Blother Fertitta]

They're called bushin, so they're basically a bunch of Houkens

That’s terrible lmao

 

[GoldDiamond]

- Gorosei's titles are basically job titles

Can you elaborate on this?

 

[Nidai_Kitetsu]

Can you elaborate on this?

He was basically saying the same thing Eten said in this thread =>

That’s their ranking/job title, like for example minister of finance, and Oda replace minister with bushin, warrior/war/military god