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Dark Body Art is better. Would prefer Dark Body Fist, but this is definitely better than Dark Corporeal Fist. I know Corporeal is basically the same thing but Body is better. Maybe it's referencing that Suiryu has a dark tan.

I'm definitely not fluent in Japanese but I'm not choosing translations based on just how cool they are. I prefer ones that sound better and make more sense. Fully translating Amai Kamen to Sweet Mask makes more sense than the route VIZ chose. Darkshine makes more sense too. If Dark Body Art is the correct translation then we should use it tho.

But I'm judging VIZ on the final product. I feel like I have a pretty good judgement on English and localization. Their localization is awful and the translating decisions they choose are not good most of the time. They get it right sometimes but most of the time, they do not.

What my point is, is that even if VIZ's translator is great and does it accurately, VIZ ruins it with poor localization. A lot of the dialogue in the volumes is absolutely wrong, because VIZ takes the translations and localizes it badly. They have proven over 11 volumes that they often make bad choices, so I don't trust that they make the right choices for all the names either. e.g. Amai Mask is not a translation problem. It's a decision problem.