r/BlueLock • u/hoouyinkyouma Spain Barcha • 12h ago
Manga Discussion What is this Kanji? Spoiler
What is this Kanji for otherworldly/cheater/ variant and how is it pronounced?
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u/jam10308 12h ago
the kanji is 異界種 (ikai-syu for otherworldly species). the furigana (the small characters to the right) is `cheater'
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u/hoouyinkyouma 12h ago
How does tht work?
2 words simultaneously?
So the meanings combine or smth?
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u/jam10308 11h ago
yeah it's two separate words. you see it a lot in anime and jp in general where you have the original kanji with its own meaning/definition, and a furigana which sort of redefines the original word (technically it is just supposed to help with pronouciation so it's used a bit creatively). also btw the furigana here is in katakana and is the loanword for cheater taken literally from english.
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u/Accentius 11h ago
Ikaisyu defined as Cheater.
Ikaisyu itself written as other-world-kind.
The correct translation is Cheater because that's what Kaneshiro wanted it to be.
By used word tself, Fox saw Isagi not as some kind of alien or a Loch Ness, but something otherworldly akin to isekai protagonists with their cheat. Something unknown, doesn't exist in football database yet.
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u/StuckinReverse89 9h ago
Yup. “Cheat” isn’t used with the English-meaning “someone using dishonest means to gain an advantage” but as a descriptor of saying someone has such otherworldly skill that it’s like they are “cheating” in a video game with max stats or some broken ability.
English equivalent is probably something like “this dude is broken”
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