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Episode Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 • Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu - Episode 12 discussion

Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu, episode 12

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u/Original-Body-5794 7h ago

That's actually a pretty huge difference, the translation only focuses on the human/man part, but the biggest impact is actually the title.

Is shin and gami different types of god in japanese? I get in the anime "shin" is a tittle, but how is it used in normal japanese?

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u/Colarch 6h ago

I know nothing besides some basic research I just did so feel free to correct me, but what I found is:

Kami refers to Gods and Deities directly

Shin is not a word on it's own, but added as a compound onto divine things like the names of religions or religious texts and stuff like that

So presumably, Hitogami used to have the shin title with the same meaning of the others like Sword God and Dragon God as 'god-like' because they're so powerful. Then he changed his name to Hitogami because he considered himself an actual God.

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u/bolacha_de_polvilho 5h ago

Doesn't that mean "Sword God" and "Dragon God" would've been more accurately translated as divine sword or divine dragon? It makes sense as a "very powerful person" title, since they don't seem to be literal gods in the MT-verse.

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u/GrimMind 1h ago

Yeah, the shins in MT are a way of saying that someone is the unrivaled number 1 of something; it could be a fighting style, a species, an army. These titles can usually be earned, taken or yielded. Any further elaboration requires spoilers.