User blog comment:Jopjopjop/Volume 18 Spoilers/@comment-82.242.251.205-20140623232716/@comment-73.178.133.185-20140630211434

Thanks for the reply. I hope it didn't sound like I was questioning your opinion, I was just curious how you'd determined the origin of the two forms. Otherwise, I was also just expressing my opinion while also explaining how n0m@n most likey came to translate them that way since I've looked into a couple of words that I was curious whether there was a better translation. Just the other day, I found that the names of the magic styles used by Rossweisse's family were most likely Seiðr-style and Gandr-style (from Norse mythology) rather than the rough translations Seiz-style and Gandol-style he used and informed him of such. If he's seen your opinion and agreed with your reasoning, he might acutally make the change (especially since he hasn't even gotten to translating Volume 18 yet).

As for my comment about Měi Hóu/Bikō, I was simply using the opportunity to make a suggestion about the name I personally felt made more sense. For your information, the kanji for Bikō's name 美猴 comes from one of Sun Wukong's many titles/names "Handsome Monkey King", which is the translation of the original Chinese Měi Hóuwáng (美猴王).