| Ychwach is one of the anime coolest names ever ngl. It sounds so ancient and wise. Like an actual name of a God. |
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SyniclLua said: Throughout the show, whenever "Yhwach" is said it is pronounced "Yuhabahha" and the katakana for his name is "ユーハバッハ", as in "yuu ha ba hha" so how come the English way of spelling it is Yhwach? That's the official spelling. And also he's inspired from how the Jewish call God |
| Kubo probably wanted to make a name similar to Yahweh for thematic purposes. |
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| It caused a lot of confusion among people that I saw reacting to the anime, who thought that the subtitles for his name were wrong. I honestly wish that Viz had translated it phonetically in the manga just for the sake of simplicity. |
AryanSawant said: No that's totally wrong. The German pronounciation would be "Üwach".Because 'Yhwach' is a german name and the proper pronunciation for it in german is 'Yuhabaha' |
| Hebrew german name with japanese ideograms. |
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WretchedCreature said: Ychwach is one of the anime coolest names ever ngl. It sounds so ancient and wise. Like an actual name of a God. Never liked it. Looks like broken Welsh. Yes I know it's not Welsh. |
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| I'm pretty sure Kubo wanted to name him either YHWH or Yahweh before someone at Jump saw the potential shitstorm and told him "yeah no, that's not happening, change it up a bit". Kinda like how Kouta Hirano can't reveal the name of the main antagonist in Drifters even after dropping hints to his identity that are so obvious they are not hints anymore. |
Razvanslyboutiki said: Menternor said: Bro what? You do realise none of the names you suggested can be pronounced in Japanese… first of all “YHWH” literally no letter there is in the alphabet unless you want to say something like YAHUWAHU.. there’s no singular ‘y’ ‘h’ ‘w’ in their alphabet and second of all… you may have gotten ‘ya’ right in ‘Yahweh’ but again, it’s impossible to say given that there’s no singular ‘h’ nor ‘we’ or ‘w’ for that matter and there’s definitely no ‘eh’… please do your research before commenting bro.. you look like a foolI'm pretty sure Kubo wanted to name him either YHWH or Yahweh before someone at Jump saw the potential shitstorm and told him "yeah no, that's not happening, change it up a bit". Kinda like how Kouta Hirano can't reveal the name of the main antagonist in Drifters even after dropping hints to his identity that are so obvious they are not hints anymore. Kubo called him ユーハバッハ Funny thing about the letters YHWH? In German, the language primarily used by the Quincies, Y can be read as the japanese ユ when it starts a word. Not common, but it's there. H by itself in German is pronounced/called "Ha", so just like the japanese ハ. W is pronounced "veh", closest thing in japanese would be べ, but as I said, it could have been changed not to create a shitstorm. Something else. So, what research did you do? |
| lol Yuhabaha I though it would be Yu WOCK |
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Menternor said: I'm pretty sure Kubo wanted to name him either YHWH or Yahweh before someone at Jump saw the potential shitstorm and told him "yeah no, that's not happening, change it up a bit". Kinda like how Kouta Hirano can't reveal the name of the main antagonist in Drifters even after dropping hints to his identity that are so obvious they are not hints anymore. Yup, that's the most logical explanation. I haven't checked whether it was exactly how you described it, but everything indicates that Yhwach's name was based on tetragram YHWH, which is the Hebrew Tetragram, or to put it simply four-letter theonym, describing the God (Yahweh) in the Hebrew Bible. One could say that it could've been a coincidence, however, if we add to it the information you have spoiler tagged, then we can clearly see that it's highly possible to connect Yhwach (Bleach) to Yahweh (Hebrew Bible). What I'm curious about is whether it was ever discussed in any interview by Kubo-sensei or his editors? Or even officially confirmed? Too bad that some angry Bleach fans have already jumped on you. I know the feeling, because apparently quoting Kubo-sensei when talking about Bleach as a work of art might anger some Bleach fans. Dunno why. It's bad when a fan hates their favorite manga's mangaka. |
Adnash said: Menternor said: I'm pretty sure Kubo wanted to name him either YHWH or Yahweh before someone at Jump saw the potential shitstorm and told him "yeah no, that's not happening, change it up a bit". Kinda like how Kouta Hirano can't reveal the name of the main antagonist in Drifters even after dropping hints to his identity that are so obvious they are not hints anymore. Yup, that's the most logical explanation. I haven't checked whether it was exactly how you described it, but everything indicates that Yhwach's name was based on tetragram YHWH, which is the Hebrew Tetragram, or to put it simply four-letter theonym, describing the God (Yahweh) in the Hebrew Bible. One could say that it could've been a coincidence, however, if we add to it the information you have spoiler tagged, then we can clearly see that it's highly possible to connect Yhwach (Bleach) to Yahweh (Hebrew Bible). What I'm curious about is whether it was ever discussed in any interview by Kubo-sensei or his editors? Or even officially confirmed? Too bad that some angry Bleach fans have already jumped on you. I know the feeling, because apparently quoting Kubo-sensei when talking about Bleach as a work of art might anger some Bleach fans. Dunno why. It's bad when a fan hates their favorite manga's mangaka. Haha, don't worry man. Some alt-accounter with the barest grasp of how Japanese works and no awareness whatsoever of the German language won't ryle me up with their half assed attempt at looking smart. There's actually even more details in the character's lore that connects him with the abrahamic god, but that would go into even more spoilers, so I'll just leave it at that. |
| I mean English is written in one way and pronounced in a different way. So why not, plus I like the pronunciation and don't think I would have liked it as much if it was pronounced, the same way it was written. |
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