[Discussion] Confusion with the name and appearance of the final gate technique or something more?

[SkyGodHorus]

Gai called this final move of his the night moth in the previous chapter as well as this one, thus I was expecting something similar to Chouji's butterfly form, but instead we got this unexpected dragon the size of Smaug lols.

I didn't understand it at first and thought why didn't kishimoto just call it the night wyrm, drake or dragon? Hell, even gai shouts out Ryu in the chapter.

However, I kept thinking about it and dragons do have their own wings just like moths and hatch from eggs just like caterpillars. Could the name and form differing from each other be some sort of metaphor or reference to an anecdote as both dragons and a moths share similar and different characteristics and symbolism. Both are charismatic and majestic in japanese and chinese folklore. While one is monolithic and fierce, the other is small and meek, yet both represent good fortune. Moths symbolize primarily death, light and transcendence. Aizen's form and the hell butterflies in bleach represented this. Dragons in Chinese mythology and Taoism compliment a phoenix and thus longevity and rebirth and both moths and dragons compliment worms as a moth is the transformation of one while the dragon is serpentous and in Taoism people are compared to dragons. The strong are defined as dragons while the weak are defined as earth worms. Dragons were also the symbol of the emperor of china and many of their forms in Japanese mythology were aqueous, made of water and controlled the tides.

Can you make out the comparisons to Gai and Lee in these lores?

 

[fandum]

the correct translation from the Viz was "Night Gai"

 

[ssjelf]

Some say that it was a translation mistake, it was actually night guy according to viz, but i disagree. I have posted ths like 3 times but here
ere is what a little bit of research has brought to me. Here is the letters for guy, or one version of it. ガイ. Pronounced as gai. Here is moth. ガ Pronounced as ga. Both are similar with the first letter thing. Kanji i think??? Anyway both are similar but moth is missing something. I find it odd that the two could be confused though as guy has a whole other letter thing. Perhaps they used different words for it thoguh but this would explain the confusion to a degree.

Perhaps kishi made it misleading so that you would get the cross between Guy and moth. Maybe a pun that guy is a moth.

 

[Tobi98]

That looked like a ****ing dragon

 

[Scooby Doo]

I expected a dragon anyway,that fits more into myth

 

[Flakez]

The correct translation is Night Guy.

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[Ultimateone]

i thought we already settled it as a translation error last week. *********** had night gai as well as viz so we should go with that