Hell Warden Higuma: Tucker Report (Patreon)

Tucker's episode notes (including name pronunciation/meaning) for our Hell Warden Higuma episode

NOTES

Okina

翁（おきな）

-escaped from prison 400 years ago

TERMS:

Mouja: the dead

亡者

獄卒人

Goku-sotsu-jin

(prison graduate)

分霊者

Bunreisha (?)

Higuma’s invisible subordinate...name means part-ghost-person

Zaiju

ザイジュ

-Short ju

-The hands

-just in katakana, but could mean something like “sin-takers” since they are taken from sinners

Meiju or Inochi Kotobuki

命寿

-only know the kanji, and it seems to be a made-up word, so it can be read several ways

-life force required to stay in the living world

-Fate/life + lifespan/longevity

NOTE:

-Zaiju powers are likely themed after the different punishments in the different rings of Buddhist Hell (the black cords in the first chapter are a specific punishment)