Official Naruto licensing Q&A!

[ChaosK]

my bad, but that still doesnt explain the kage hokage kazekage

stos claimed the <u>kage</u> was for shadow thus that would mean like, wind-shadow???

[shinjii]

kage was already explained, it is shadow, so if so its basically shadow techniques
englisizing of hokage is only barely a translation, they dont seem to like using any non english words since they think it will confuse the puny minds of the zombies that watch tv these days, what else could they think, but calling the hokage fire shadown, or fire ninja, or any kind of localized reference, would be useful to the viewer, becayse hokage is a generic name for the leader of the village, he is like our president/commander in chief of military, they choose to translate hokage not literally, but to say what the purpose of the hokage title is, which is as leader, so there is no possibility of anybody becoming confused in any way.

though as i said if they went that way i still wish they would have used village head/leader instead of head ninja, as its like calling our president commander in chief instead of president, which we just dont do on a regular basis.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Well, maybe it would be alright to use Hokage if they didn't also have to name the Kazekage, Mizukage, etc. as well. All the Kages and such would probably start confusing the childrens.

[shinjii]

you do have a good point there, we can understand what each is, but its too bad so many kids, i guess are so easily confused
i never got confused by that throughout the show, i doubt most naruto fans did, but oh well, i guess head ninja had to be used since naruto is so infatuated with the position, and he doesnt care about the responsibility of the position as village leader, only with the attention it will give him in general, but of course as a ninja especially

[The Heretic Azazel]

They still could have found a better replacement than "head ninja." That's no justice at all.