1) Yes

2) No

3) Idk. I'm neautral about this

4) Definetely Sorrow. Tristitia literally means sadness in latin, and sadness was considered a sin because you didn't appreciate life and stuff. So I believe sorrow fits, both as an accurate translation and regarding the meaning used in the series/context. Irina definetely isn't depressed.

1) Ye

2) Ye

3) No

4) Sorrow

1) Yes

2) no

3) ***

4) Sorrow or Despair, either is fine to me

***I was originally going to say no then I remembered what the Black Box (at least Allen's) did. It taught him the history of the world, so I suppose those are recorded bios of the candidates (there's even soundwave/graph effects in the background if you wanna make that connection). At least that's what I'm getting from it. But I'm on the fence.

In this case of Sins, I think they would all be synonyms anyway. Sorrow and depression are both forms of sadness, and this sad feelings would be what cause Sloth(lack of motivation), not that Irina is slothful. The difference is, I think, sorrow is more connected to guilt whereas depression is not. Irina doesn't seem to feel guilty about killing the other three, she does however feel depressed because her brother loves Elluka more then he loves her, so I would use depression over sorrow in this case.

1) Yes

2) I'm not sure

3) Yes

4) I'm not a translator, but I'm also neutral either way

I would advise against using Depression, considering we're talking about the Eight Evil Thoughts and depression is a mental illness and... you get what I'm saying?

You are thinking of clinical depression, and Irina doesn't seem to have that. You can be depressed with out have depression. Either way, you might be right about not wanting to use it, despair works just as well here.

The issue is more so that different sources (both in English and Japanese) widely vary in the English translation for this, including depression. For the Japanese terminology itself, the word for depression/meloncholy is used.

Regardless, I'm seeing a majority in favor of Dany's postulation, against assuming Kiril is holding Grim the End for now, mixed on the Black Box topic, and heavily in favor of using "Sorrow" as the translation. I'll give all but the Black Box portion a pass then so we can move on with articles.

To give the topic elaboration: the beginning of the PV gives us the "Black Box Archive" where information for the four potential candidates are provided along with a black grid that's commonly used in association with other black boxes in the series. The very mention of it assures it's not going to go unlisted but do users feel that this look into the "archive" counts as an appearance of the box itself?

Um...yes? That makes me get a vibe that it is what Alexiel is seeing, so that means the black box is actually the one showing us that information. Also, for the sorrow vs despair, isn't it 2-2? It is still a tie.

Yeap

Scarletta, Dany, Misstress, Astrophysics Person prefer Sorrow; Emuei prefers depression, the others are neutral :I