Though, if the game came out of Japan, the sword would likely be called the Masamune, because Japan. The user, becoming a Ruler of Shadows (, Kage no Shihaisha, VIZ: Master of Shadows), can steal the shadows of other beings and insert them into different bodies, living or dead, which in the. It is always possible that Pixelpusher is right and it is supposed to mean something like, "This sword is a shadow that will burn the very battleground itself where you were fighting with it," but I like "Shadows Even Burn" because it's punchier.ĮDIT: I just realized that from an English writer's perspective, the word-by-word translation could have been meant to be "burn away even shadows." If this game came out of Japan, at least we'd know if the name was supposed to be nonsense by its untranslatability. The Kage Kage no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that gives the user the ability to manifest and control shadows of living creatures, including their own, as physical and tangible forms. I really wish the devs would have gone with something like 影さえ燃やす "Kage sae moyasu" as the name of the sword, since it means "I even burn shadow," which would add an interesting subtext to the sword, giving it an implied shadow pyromania.and personality. "Moyasu sura kage" (Shadow even burns) speaks of burning shadow as a material (like wood), from what I can gather, so the use of nobi there would imply the use of shadow differently. I'm guessing the implication with using nobi is that the demons will burn as crops in a field on fire. After the murder of one of his clans seven samurai, the young warrior Hachiro is called upon to finish his training. Kage=shade sura=even Nobi=burning off the fields. Before we begin, I should point out that Japanese is a second language I am not fluent in yet.Īs near as I can figure, Nobitsura Kage is supposed to mean something like "Shadows Even Burn," given the nature of the sword.