![]() ![]() What he gives away just happens to be 100% bullshit. Where his sister deals with the world by giving it nothing of herself, Sora has no qualms about sharing. It turns out that the sky has found its way into half the deception and falsehood going on in the Japanese language (and plenty of those retain the sora reading, to boot.) The last one is my favorite: just line up one Sora after another to get falsehood and hypocrisy. 空威張り karaibari bluffing, bluster, bravado 空手形 karategata bad (fictitious) bill, empty promise This is the reason why the sky is part of blank in the first place.īut a look through some other sky-compounds turns out to be quite enlightening: This explains why the terms sky and empty, share the same character, albeit with different readings: 空 can be read as, respectively, sora and kara. The Japanese choose to view the sky as, among other things, a vast empty space. It is necessary to take a step back to see the double meanings involved with his name. Sora is the more difficult one to crack because the image and symbolism of the sky are just too powerful and distracting. Come to think of it, Tsubasa and Shiro do have plenty in common. If the duality of perfection and rejection contained within the color white sounds familiar, it has been extensively covered in the first arc of Monogatari Second Season. Rather than an ideal, Shiro’s purity is her way of dealing with the “unfair” world around her. Her default expression is having no expression at all. Her great focus comes from shutting herself away from unnecessary interference. She rarely speaks to anyone but her brother. Just as white objects refuse to absorb light, Shiro refuses to interact with the world around her. There is only one catch to all of this: the purity of white is achieved through rejection. Her outward appearance keeps up the trend: the obvious white hair, the petite build and the sailor fuku all represent youth, innocence and purity. Internally, Shiro embodies the pure and serene mind. Aside from raw brainpower, Sora also points to her ability to retain perfect focus at all times as one of the reasons behind her proficiency at games. Her strength lies in the world of calculations and absolute truths. Shiro’s white is, on the surface, a white of perfect purity. The main difference between the two is that Sora covers up his poison and hurt with lies and deception, Shiro with silence and a mask of neutrality. Feal, I found myself telling it, they both have similar, twisted personalities. It was complaining that while Sora was constantly out doing something cool, Shiro had no personality at all. Then I had a talk with that white squirrel-cat thing called feal87. Sora’s connection to the sky seemed oddly lacking, or even inappropriate considering his hikikomori habits. Shiro, after all, has her albino coloration, which is reason enough for her name both from an in-universe and the readers’ perspective. Still, there was something left nagging at my brain – the reasoning behind Sora’s name. The title of Blank is an open declaration that the miracle gamer everyone wants to believe in does not exist: in the sense that Blank is the joint effort of two people rather than a single person, obviously, but also because the truth behind the siblings is much more down to earth than most gossipers would like to think. The blank idea also plays nicely into the urban legend the siblings have going on. Throughout the series, Sora and Shiro delight in capturing various things in those metaphorical brackets, like one would in a camera lens, and thus claiming those things for their own. The official way of writing that term within the series is just an empty space within Japanese brackets like this: 「 」. The series does get plenty of mileage out of the blank idea. We have Sora (sky) and Shiro (white), whose names put together just happen to form the word blank (kuuhaku).įor a long time, I thought that was it. No Game No Life is pretty upfront about the basic idea behind the names of its characters. ![]()
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