組織の主な収入源は、三途の河の渡し賃、及び中有の道の屋台である。
Does that line really say that one of the primary sources of funding will include food and toy (confection) stands put along the path of the deceased travel after death? lol... I hope I haven't mistranslated and committed a terribly sacrilegious travesty but... that's what's written... right? TheTrueBlue 03:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- See the Road of Liminality article. --T. Solamarle 04:01, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- It all makes a little more sense when you consider that, in traditional Chinese / Japanese mythology, Heaven (and Hell, which is basically Heaven's Department of Corrections) is run by a Celestial Bureaucracy, which works like mortal governments except that it's run by gods and has departments that deal with things like reincarnation, weather control, and other assorted duties that deities that run the world have to deal with. And, like mortal governments, they have to fill out forms and get permission from their supervisors to do certain things and pay their employees and get funding for various projects and such. And - also like mortal governments - their resources may be vast, but they're not unlimited.
- So yes, Heaven (and Hell) have to get funding, and getting funds by having ghost convicts run vendor stalls is somewhat comical, but not really any more sacreligious than, say, angels and devils holding comical arguments on people's shoulders.
- Luceid 04:30, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Fascinating points Luceid. According to the recent edit by Deadkid the judge doesn't listen to the testimony of the deceased? Is it because they are already know everything anyway? Or that the kind of suave and otherwise persuasive oratory skills that are so effective when employed by merchants, laywers, or ancient Roman senators are useless against the Yama? The final line *4 does translate directly to "Dead men tell no tales" but I was under the impression that that adage meant the dead cannot testify against the living (except with their DNA or CSI evidence but...) How does 死人に口な apply to 死者の意見を聞く事無く ? TheTrueBlue 04:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- I took that literally. The judge doesn't listen because the dead cannot speak. _dk 05:02, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- I got the impression that it's a joke by Akyu, or possibly the Yama - ghosts can certainly speak. Yuyuko talks, and (spoiler alert) Komachi talks to a ghost in her SWR ending. I think it's because the Yama have the power to automatically make a correct judgement; remember, Sikieiki has the power to judge good and evil, and she has her magic mirror that can show every event in someone's past. Testimony on the part of the deceased would be pointless.
- Luceid 05:20, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Yuyuko is a special icon in all ghosts, and Komachi can be seen as having unique ability of Shinigami (the latter is unofficial setting). And we can't know whether the judges have the proper ability to deal with souls after death, but at least it's true that "Shinin ni kuchi nashi" is a famous idiom to mean that the living people can't know the truth hidden by dead men, or the dead can't correct the fault fact made by the living. --Masuo64 07:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Look those empty boxes have English now![]
I hope the editors here will polish over the raw product. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a bed I need to drop halfdead on. TheTrueBlue 08:24, 23 August 2009 (UTC)