Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170321154902/@comment-23.105.110.214-20190726154450

It's pretty much six of one, half dozen of another to me. Some food for thought I'd like to throw out regarding this largely stylistic choice:

1. "創世" means the creation of the world. Just "creation" lacks the idea of creating the world vs creating any thing. One possible solution to this is to say "Girl of the Creation". Another choice would be to use "genesis", which means much the same thing but due to the Biblical Genesis has a much stronger connotation as the creation of the world itself. As a side note, 創世記 is the Book of Genesis (with 記 meaning book in this case), so there is a precedent for that.

2. "World Creation" or "Creation of the World" would be the most accurate, to my mind, but those both sound clunky to me.

3. "Genesis Girl Gretel" alliterates nicely, for whatever that's worth.

4. "Girl of Creation" sounds (at least to me) a lot less succint than "Creation Girl". While we do have a precedent for using "x of y" for situation in which mothy writes "yのx", there is no "の" in the term, so it isn't necessary to make a connection to previous terms. No matter whether "genesis" or "creation" is chosen, I'd support removing the "of" overall.

5. If we're trying to match Ending Boy Hansel, then I would think that "creation" would be a stronger choice for that. However, the "終末" used in his title doesn't refer explicitly to the ending of the world (it is a general ending), so I think it would be fine to deviate from matching in English as well and use "genesis".

Overall, I would support "Genesis Girl" a bit more for largely stylistic reasons. Both terms would be absolutely fine to my mind, though.

- Slug