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Bleach Shunpou vs MSN Shundou?

In Bleach the shinigami use a technique that they call "shunpou" to instantly travel between two locations (supposed to be instant, anyway). About midway through Mahou Sensei Negima!, they introduced Instant Movement as the same concept. However, recently some of the translators left it in its Japanese form, "shundou".

I am wondering why they are named very similarly but not identically. Can it be read either way and left up to the editors or is it just a random change in letter to make the former or later seem more unique?

Update:

I looked up a few words. "dou" means motion in Japanese and "shun" seems to mean excellence or genius (probably some sort of idiom involved here). Nothing comes up for "pou".

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  • 1 decade ago
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    probally because in Japanese [as in english too] it's like a variation,

    like we use what , who , how

    they are similar because it is the same criteria but a variation,

    in Japanese they do that too.

    Or maybe as I've seen it has been translated wrong and they translated it to a different root,

  • 4 years ago

    Naruto is the only i do no longer in basic terms like the main out of those, it have been given uninteresting, somewhat kiddish and it relatively is in simple terms no longer for me. As for no longer liking the paintings paintings in one Piece skill discriminating on the paintings of all shonen creators I disagree. no longer all Shonen paintings appears like that through fact each writer has a definite variety that's why each anime is diverse. The paintings in one Piece is in simple terms just to no longer my flavor. I nonetheless have admire to the artist for turning out to be it even with the shown fact that. :)

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