User:Omnibender/Name source checking

Through various searches I make regarding names of stuff, be it jutsu, characters, locations, voice actors, sometimes I'll find conflicting sources, or names that differ from what we have listed in this wiki, and stuff we don't have. This is a page to help me keep track of conflicting information and the sources on those, and is likely to contain stuff I already brought up in the relevant article's talk page. Pretty much all of these are in the Japanese Wikipedia articles about Naruto, but sometimes they also show up elsewhere.

Fire Release: Demon Lantern - Kanji are currently listed as 火遁・鬼灯籠, JW has it listed as 火遁・鬼燈籠. Reading and meaning are the same. Google shows more results for JW's version. Both versions of the way to write the "lantern" part seem to occur in Japanese.

Heavenly Prison Fire Sword - Kanji are currently listed as 天牢火劍, JW has it listed as 天牢火剣. Our version does yield more Google results, but the majority of those are in Chinese rather than Japanese. The more common variation of the sword kanji is likely to be correct.

Flower Ninja Art: Many Blooming Flowers - Kanji are currently listed as 花忍法・百花繚乱, just as the idiom, and JW has it listed as 花忍法・百火繚乱, which would be translated as something like Flower Ninja Art: Hundred Fires Profusion or Flower Ninja Art: Many Fires Profusion, depending on how faithful to the idiom you want to be. The version with the fire kanji is listed in other sites, though many look like they did some web scraping. It would not be out of place with how other jutsu have been named in the past, with puns.

Fire Release: Fire Rotation - 火遁・火廻 Katon: Himawari. JW lists it as something from The Tale of the Utterly Purehearted Shinobi, though they don't list the exact effect or user.

Water Release: Hail - 水遁・雨あられ Suiton: Amearare. Something used by Chino that a tumblr tells me is a water version of Gaara's Sand Hail.

Water Release: Angry Anguish Rain - 水遁・怒苦雨 Suiton: Dokusame. Used by Kiiro. Black rain that sticks to the opponent, restricting movement and field of vision.

Water Release: Cold Sky Water Attack - Kanji are currently listed as 水遁・冽空水撃, JW has it listed as 水遁・裂空水撃, same reading. JW's version translates something like Water Release: Tearing Sky Water Attack. All the results I could find for our version seem to be either translations, or web scraping. There are only a handful results for the JW version. Everything relating to how ice or cold mentioned in the current translation seems to come from a single YouTube video of the OVA, with questionable translation.

Earth Release: Underground Split - Kanji are currently listed as 土遁・土中爆, JW has it listed as 土遁・土柱爆, same reading. Translation would be Earth Release: Earth Pillar Explosion. The Viz/English translation doesn't quite match either translation. Our version has almost no results on Google, except for places that look like just translated our entry on it, and other than the JW entry and web-scraped versions, all results of the other version seem to in Chinese, apparently due to it being written like that in a Chinese market only game, or one of those unlicensed Chinese games.

Earth Release: Ground Bedrock - Kanji are currently listed as 土遁・大地岩床, JW has it listed as 土遁・大地合掌, reading changes from "ganshō" to "gasshō". Translation would be Earth Release: Ground Press I think, the changed part refers to putting hands together in prayer. This title fits better with both the jutsu's actual effect, and the English anime translation.

Violent Heavenly Earth Needle - Kanji are currently listed as 烈土天針, JW has it listed as 裂土天針, same reading, translation would something like Tearing Earth Heavenly Needle, similar to Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm. All results for our version seem to be from other wiki and web scraping. JW's version appears in more varied sites.

Weaknessless Soaring Shortswords - Kanji are currently listed as 不弱飛翔小剣, JW has it listed as 孔雀二双昇剣, which is completely different. Reading is Kujaku Nisō Shōken, and it translates to Peacock Two Twin Rising Swords. Our version shows up only in blatant copies of our stuff, JW's version appears in more varied sites.

Wind Cutter Technique - Kanji are currently listed as 風切りの術, JW has it as 風斬り. Same reading, apart from the "no jutsu", and same meaning I think. A bit difficult to compare search results, as one is an incomplete form of another term, and something similar also appears to be popular in fanfic, I think. Don't recall if "no jutsu" is present in the actual audio of the episode, no idea if the different kanji means a different translation in this case.

Wind Release: Vacuum Blade - Different from Danzō's version that was named in games. JW has it listed as 風遁・真空刃/Fūton: Shinkūha, used by a Sunagakure assassin in one of the light novels, but they don't specify which. My guess would be Gaara Hiden.

Lightning Armour - 雷の鎧 Ikazuchi no Yoroi. Appears to be something we don't have. JW lists both this and Lightning Strike Armour as different jutsu for Raiga. From the description, it's possible they split what we consider Lightning Strike Armour to be into two jutsu.

Lightning Release: Electric Shock Needles - 雷遁・感電針々 Raiton: Kanden Baribari. Used by Kodaka. Similar to Chidori Senbon, but the description also mentions stuff that kinda looks like it's about the plot this was used in, I can't quite figure out. There are mentions to increased speed, venomous bees, and a blind eye. Might be a hiden from his clan.

Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder - No site actually in Japanese lists it as we do. They all list this as. The English anime translation would also make more sense, which leads me to think we've simply listed this wrong all along.

Lightning Release Co-Operation: Thunder Bomb - Written the exact same way in JW and other Japanese sites, but the "cooperation" is after the ":", making this Lightning Release: Cooperation Thunder Bomb.

Kochū - 蠱虫. A type of insect used by an Aburame called Sugaru/スガル in Itachi Shinden: Book of Dark Night. Looks like the user can see and hear through them, similar to Insect Spying Technique. However, that also makes the user vulnerable to genjutsu used against the insect, which is also transmitted back to the user.

Mind Disturbance Dance Performance Technique - Kanji are currently listed as 心乱演舞の術, JW has it listed as 心乱円舞の術. Same reading, but changes the name to Mind Disturbance Waltz Technique, or Mind Disturbance Circle Dance Technique if you translate the kanji separately. I can see the English anime being an adaptation of both our version and the JW version. JW version only shows up there and in web scraped version of the page, our version shows up in web scraped or translated versions of our article, and in just a couple other Japanese sites.

Pressure Points of Harm and Death - Kanji are currently listed as 死傷点穴, JW has it listed as 死生点穴. Reading remains the same, despite what ShounenSuki said long ago in here. Seems they just changed the pronunciation, making it Pressure Points of Life and Death. No site in Japanese lists our version. Curiously, other than web-scraped version of JW, their version doesn't show up in Japanese sites either, but they do show up in several sites in Chinese.

Assimilate All Creation Technique - Kanji listed at JW and elsewhere, including official/licensed card games list it with the exact same kanji, but with the "・"/":" between Banshō and Dōka, which I believe would make this into something like All Creation: Assimilation Technique.

Secret Technique: Mouth Seal Technique - JW lists it as. Dunno about the Hiden/Hidenjutsu conflict, that can be easily checked, but I do recall this was a annoying one to figure out back when it debuted. Readings are similar, so there's a chance for mix-up.

Fury - Kanji are currently listed as 怒髪天, exactly as the idiom, JW has it listed as 怒髪点, which reads the same, and would be translated as Fury Point I think. Japanese sites look somewhat split on these.

Wooden Puppet Coffin 木人柩 Mokujin Kyū. Something from the Third Great Beast Arc.

Multiple Smoke Clone - JW lists it as. No word on base version. Would probably require rewatching episodes for audio.

Earth Release: Shadow Clone - JW lists the kanji all together, without the "・".

Paper Clone - JW lists it with "no Jutsu".

Tsuchigumo Style: Forbidden Life Technique Release: Creation of Heaven and Earth - JW drops the first "・" and the "Release" part. For some reason, most sites in Japanese list that version, though I think I recall the "release" part in the actual episode audio.

Howling Wolf Sealing Technique - JW lists it as. No idea if there's supposed to be word play or goraigo involved. Used by Reishi Kodon, hiden of the clan.

Medical Water Release: Water Scorpion - JW lists the Water Scorpion part with kanji. Not many sites in Japanese list this, but pretty much all of them list the name in full kanji. Most results that list it like us look like translations and web scrapers.

Medical Water Release: Jellyfish - Same as above.

Telegram Flash - JW lists it as the traditional idiom. We and the sites that copy us are literally the only people to list it like that. I do recall talking a long time ago about this jutsu with a translator, probably ShounenSuki, who would swear he heard Denpō and not Denkō, when listening to the audio of the episode.

Infinite Embrace and its multiple version - JW lists them as 無炎方陽/Muen Hōyō. Also asked ShounenSuki way back, he always heard it with a g. Our version shows up more often in Japanese sites, but despite having looked up the exact term and Naruto in the same query, unless I check result for result, I can't be sure the results are actually about the episode and the specific jutsu.

Reverse White Secret Technique: The Uematsu Collection of Ten Puppets - JW drops the "reverse" in the beginning, but they list the collection's title as 伊勢松/Isematsu, which matches the anime's translation more. Pretty sure the "reverse" was in the episode audio.

Poison Mist Hell: Hundred Continuous Firing - JW lists it as 毒霧地獄・針々百連発, same reading. If it changes anything to the translation, I think it's to Poison Mist Hell: Hundred Firing Needles or something to that effect.

Manipulating Windmill Triple Blades - JW lists it as 操風車三ノ太刀, while we list it as 操風車三ノ大刀. No idea if there's a significant difference. I do question the overall translation of the jutsu, since "tachi" is supposed to be something like "long blade" or "long sword".

Crimson Earth - JW lists it as 土塊綯い, we list it as 土紅. Same reading, not quite sure of the translation, but from the meaning of each kanji, it does seem to fit better with the jutsu. The anime translation seems to match what we have, but the other version fits too well not to consider.

Flower Ninja Art: Many Releasing Flowers - JW lists it as 花忍法・百花砕放, we list it as 花忍法・百花斉放. Reading is the same. Would translate into something like Flower Ninja Art: Hundred Flowers Blast/Discharge I think. Very few results with either form, but outs doesn't show up in any Japanese result, all of which seem to copy JW.

Dark Smoke Sphere - This one confuses me. JW lists it with different kanji, 魔煙銃 against our 魔煙弾, but lists the same pronunciation, even though the 銃 doesn't appear to be read that way. Translation would be Dark Smoke Gun.

Garian Sword - JW just has 竜眼/Ryūgan in the beginning, which matches the anime translation.