new name for unbirths
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You should be blaming SE.
They started it all.
Watch the English translators call them "Ambers". Wactch them.
..Don't actually sue them though.
We already knew that.
We may want to change topic, though. This could turn into major spam.
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What is an Unbirth or Unborn or watever?
It's the "new" enemy in Birth By Sleep.
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Well, it's never too late for my two cents, right?
The case with a word like 死神 (shinigami) is that its a part of the natural Japanese vocabulary, meaning it originated in Japan, therefore we can only use English words to describe it like 'soul reaper' or 'god of death'.
In the case of a word like アンバース (unbirths), it's written in an alphabet specified for foreign words, therefore it has a singular meaning shared in both Japanese and English (or other languages sometimes too). Notice something like the unbirths can't be written in kanji, just like heartless and nobodies don't use kanji to represent them. For example, this is how they appear in Japanese:
ハートレス = heartless
ノーバディ = nobody
アンバース = unbirths
So frankly, there is no other way of saying unbirths other than to say unbirths. Except like Noo Monkey mentioned, unbirths has the same katakana reading as ambers. So until someone official points out how it's suppose to be understood, it's up to us to guess. Personally I think unbirths make more sense in the context of Kingdom Hearts, so I stick by it.
Doesn't mean they might change it based on localization for America. Like others pointed out, unbirths leaves an unsavory connotation about unborn babies, so to censor our youth they might change it. Who knows, really. Unborns/deborns have the same connotations, therefore if they change things I doubt they'll go down that route.
The case with a word like 死神 (shinigami) is that its a part of the natural Japanese vocabulary, meaning it originated in Japan, therefore we can only use English words to describe it like 'soul reaper' or 'god of death'.
In the case of a word like アンバース (unbirths), it's written in an alphabet specified for foreign words, therefore it has a singular meaning shared in both Japanese and English (or other languages sometimes too). Notice something like the unbirths can't be written in kanji, just like heartless and nobodies don't use kanji to represent them. For example, this is how they appear in Japanese:
ハートレス = heartless
ノーバディ = nobody
アンバース = unbirths
So frankly, there is no other way of saying unbirths other than to say unbirths. Except like Noo Monkey mentioned, unbirths has the same katakana reading as ambers. So until someone official points out how it's suppose to be understood, it's up to us to guess. Personally I think unbirths make more sense in the context of Kingdom Hearts, so I stick by it.
Doesn't mean they might change it based on localization for America. Like others pointed out, unbirths leaves an unsavory connotation about unborn babies, so to censor our youth they might change it. Who knows, really. Unborns/deborns have the same connotations, therefore if they change things I doubt they'll go down that route.
I knew about this. Maybe the loacilzers will call them Unsouls?
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I'm thinking that this a maybe for unborn and such. Hmmm...but that could be true.
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