Talk:Kagune/@comment-24494906-20150101151300/@comment-24494906-20150102154001

> The Kaku here means burning red, not the red color. They just changed burning into shining, cause that's cool. :3

How do you know that? Yes, the character basically means "flaming/fiery red", but that's also just a shade of red. Heck, 赫 is the character for "red" doubled.

And the translator translated it almost certainly as "shining" because the translator opened the dictionary, looked up all words starting with 赫 and found that 赫く means "to shine".

> The 'Kaku' used here doesn't have an native japanese reading also 'Ne' is not used for child.

The character 赫 itself is really rare, but "kaku" is the usual reading of this character in compound words? And while the reading "ne" of 子 is really rare, it's not something Ishida made up completely, there are few words where 子 is read as "ne". But it's certainly an interesting question why Ishida chose to read "赫子" as "kagune" and why he didn't go for more natural readings like "kakugo".

But you completely missed my point. We have a situation where Ishida is basically rubbing it into our face that "赫子" means "red child". Why else would "Rc" mean "red child"?