Talk:Kagune/@comment-24494906-20150101151300/@comment-24494906-20150101154449

"Shining child" is a translation derived from the kanji: 赫 = shining 子 = child That's probably what the translator did, too.

However, 赫い also rarely means "red" (it's so rare that I couldn't even find 赫い in dictionaries, though it's certainly used, cf. the film "Woman with Red Hair"), and since Ishida revealed that "Rc cells" means "red child cells", I think that it's quite likely that 赫 means "red" in the ghoul terms. It's also interesting that Ishida used 赫い = red on chapter 133's color pages.