Talk:Race/@comment-90.192.79.80-20161029113347/@comment-206.34.122.70-20161213170730

Maybe the English readers should also brush up on their English...

Grotesque does not simply mean ugly or creepy.

And demihuman is clearly not 'the middle'.

日本語読めるなら分かりますよね. 「亜人種」の「亜」の意味ちゃんと理解しているんですか.

Anyone that knows Japanese should know that the 亜 in 亜人 is predominantly used to indicate something inferior, sub-, or next in rank (ie underneath something in rank).

When 亜人 is translated as 'demihuman' in various works, this is to distinguish it from humans. Humans are usually the 'normal' race in these settings and the word is used in English to denote 'the other beings', usually regarded with disdain.

In the Overlord setting, simply using demihuman is not immediately informative since there are 3 categorizations of races and humans are not alone in their category. Humans are in fact often considered weaker in many areas and the memebers of the 亜人種 are considered *even lower* than those generally weak humans. This is more than enough reasoning to use the term subhuman over the term demihuman in English.

Either way in Japanese, 亜人 has strong connotations of an inferior being.

See �亜科 (subfamily/subcategory) 亜流 (second rate, imitation, follower) and even its use in when speaking about taxonomic ranks in biology 亜界 (subkingdom). Think about it for a second. It's literally used in biology to describe various species as 'sub'.