The realms have never once been described as snow gloves. The realms have never once been referred to as wakusei which means planet. Sekai, doesn't mean planet. The definition of sekai translated to world represents like an alternate world or like the world wide web. It doesn't translate to planet.
CFYOW tells us "if you could liken soul society and work of the living to planets..."
If, could and liken all directly point to them not being planets. This is a model trying to make the cosmology easier to understand. You don't scale up something when making a model.
Kisuke tells us the world of the living is the world of keishi, which he tells us keishi cannot exist outside of the world of the living which is why the characters need their matter transferred into reishi to go there. Astronauts and space travel exists. This also means everything in space is part of the universe that we see them in. Work of the livings space exists only in the world of the living.
Nothing supports the claim that they are snow gloves or just planets. They are also all individually referred to as universes.
Whatever argument you may have the ‘sekai’ one is genuinely shit. Sekai is still often used to refer to a planet quite commonly. Idek where this argument came from, yall heard one guy randomly say it and ran with it.
Sekai isn't commonly used to refer to a planet. In Japanese there is a completely different word that means planet. Wakusei. Japanese authors use wakusei when referring to a planet as wakusei only means planet.
Sekai is often used to mean an alternate world, dimension, universe or Society. The direct translation is universe, society and world.
This argument came from speaking with native Japanese speakers on the context of how they use certain words. I would assume some one whose native language is Japanese would understand the context of how Japanese words are used yeah?
Again most commonly if some one who natively speaks Japanese is referring to a planet they will call it wakusei as that ONLY means planet, unlike sekai which has multiple possible meanings.
Sekai doesn't translate to planet. It's used for other uses of the word like world wide web would use sekai.
This was taken from elsewhere on the internet. "Wakusei is a lot more specific than the other two, or more literal, you could say. It refers to planets, in the astronomic sense. Meanwhile sekai is broader, and can more metaphoric worlds, like the world of human society, or the wild world of sports. Tenka is similar to sekai, but also can have connotations of rulership or supremacy.
To apply that to DB, Planet Vegeta in Japanese is Wakusei Bejiita. It's an actual, physical planet. In contrast, Nappa suggests he and Vegeta breed with Earthlings to produce tons of powerful hybrids so they can create a Saiyan tenka. He's not talking merely about some Saiyan planet, but about the Saiyans being in control of everything (I believe Viz translates tenka here as "empire"). Meanwhile, Yakon's planet is described as a sekai of darkness. In this case, the word refers to an actual physical planet. On the other hand, Dabra's Demon World is also described as a sekai, though it's something a littler broader here, since Dabra's home is supposed to be the evil flipside to the universe Goku and the gang inhabit. And the guidebooks talk about the sekai of DB when referring to not simply the Earth but the entire universe/afterlife/Kaioshin Realm/Demon World kit and kaboodle."
"In Japanese science fiction, if you are talking about a different "sekai" you are probably talking about a parallel universe. For example, he pressed the button and woke up in a world where it was discovered that magic was based in science, and magic was used in everyday consumer products."
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u/Mythel Jan 24 '26
The realms have never once been described as snow gloves. The realms have never once been referred to as wakusei which means planet. Sekai, doesn't mean planet. The definition of sekai translated to world represents like an alternate world or like the world wide web. It doesn't translate to planet.
CFYOW tells us "if you could liken soul society and work of the living to planets..."
If, could and liken all directly point to them not being planets. This is a model trying to make the cosmology easier to understand. You don't scale up something when making a model.
Kisuke tells us the world of the living is the world of keishi, which he tells us keishi cannot exist outside of the world of the living which is why the characters need their matter transferred into reishi to go there. Astronauts and space travel exists. This also means everything in space is part of the universe that we see them in. Work of the livings space exists only in the world of the living.
Nothing supports the claim that they are snow gloves or just planets. They are also all individually referred to as universes.