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