Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1207741-20180902030231/@comment-4912646-20180904064504

Snapper2 wrote: It's terms like these that I don't think have ever had a reason one way or the other. This topic will hopefully help us create one. "Neologism" is a slippery slope because I think you could easily apply it to anything in the series, no? I think the reason none of those particular terms were translated was for consistency with terms already familiar to most English-speaking fans. Shikotsumyaku was left untranslated because other kekkei genkai like "Sharingan" weren't, "Ninshu" because "Ninjutsu" wasn't, and "Chibaku Tensei" because "Shinra Tensei" wasn't. Though that last one's kind of an exception, since ShounenSuki chose not to translate the original two Deva Path techniques because they came from a Buddhist idiom, rather than them being known to fans.

Another weird case is Tengai Shinsei, which is seemingly untranslated because it might be a Deva Path technique (neither the manga nor databook gave us any real information on it).