Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-23.229.103.88-20200624212858/@comment-23.229.103.88-20200624221700

Gsimenas wrote: 裕也 Thanks! Also, on page 36 of the English LN volume 7, Kirito uses the phrase "blood from a stone". What is the Japanese idiom? And it'd be harder to find, but I think "River Styx" is a dynamic equivalent rather than direct translation int the secition of the story about the item said to raise dead players. I know there's a term in Japanese mythology that "Styx" has been substituted for i translating anime, and tha tmay be what's really there. Ironically, the use of "pine for" (Which I have now seen twic ein the Enlgish LNs, in volume 7 and in the part alking about the lesbian girl that dies in WoU) the term "pine for' is possibly literally, translating "matsu". It's a pun that works in both languages since it means both "pine tree" and "wait" poetically in Japanese.