Talk:Kyle Marlon/@comment-118.137.228.124-20160228181423/@comment-146.113.79.217-20160228193851

There's two different words for soul used. There's 心(kokoro/often translated as heart) and 魂(tamashii). Now, I've had native speakers attempt to explain the distinction as "the soul that makes you who you are" and "the soul that wanders after death". I don't know exactly the specifics of how it's used there, and in the series they appear to mean something different, but what this suggests to me is that while Adam's personality and memories and feelings are in the key, the "soul of adam" people keep talking about might refer to some other aspect of his being that he was separated from.

Or, alternatively, it's just someone commenting on how very alike they are either in appearance or spirit. 魂 also has that kind of connotation.