Talk:Darkness/@comment-24409121-20150815034614

Which book where they actually called 'Darkness' in? I know others start by asking what color they are, as it was Red and Blue before and Gagaran thought that Green may be next, but instead was told it was 'Black'.

Are translators using Black and Darkness interchangibly? Or is there an actual point where they start getting called Team Darkness instead of Team Black?

I ask as I've not gotten that far in the RAW's (still mulling around in the 1st book in terms of the RAW's). I know that black is 黒 (kuro) and darkness is 闇黒 (ankoku).

漆黒 (shikkoku) that is written above is actually more accuratly translated as Jet Black or Deep Black.

If that is the case and they are just called that, then while 'Darkness' sounds cool, it may not be accurate to call them that.

If you want to go into more detail on why 漆黒 is generally translated as Jet Black, the first character means 'lacquer' or 'varnish' and the second character is just 'black'. Together making 'jet black'.

闇黒, which I showed before means darkness. Made from the first character meaning 'dark' or 'gloom' and the second again meaning 'black'. Together making 'darkness'.

Oh, one more thing, 漆黒 (shikkoku), on top of being used for Jet Black, it is also used to describe how black a raven is. So if calling them Jet Black (like Blue Rose) is off, then perhaps Black Raven would be a fitting translation to the team name (giving it both a color and an object to describe the team). This idea of the "raven" part being used comes from the official translation of the 13th Detective Connan movie "Shikkoku no Chaisa" or in English, "The Raven Chaser", showing that it is generally accepted that 'shikkoku' and 'raven' is an agreed upon translation. (Yes, I also know that 'karasu' is the main word used for 'raven' in Japanese too.)

- Kat