![]() ![]() Feal, I found myself telling it, they both have similar, twisted personalities. It was complaining that while Sora was constantly out doing something cool, Shiro had no personality at all. Then I had a talk with that white squirrel-cat thing called feal87. Sora’s connection to the sky seemed oddly lacking, or even inappropriate considering his hikikomori habits. Shiro, after all, has her albino coloration, which is reason enough for her name both from an in-universe and the readers’ perspective. Still, there was something left nagging at my brain – the reasoning behind Sora’s name. The title of Blank is an open declaration that the miracle gamer everyone wants to believe in does not exist: in the sense that Blank is the joint effort of two people rather than a single person, obviously, but also because the truth behind the siblings is much more down to earth than most gossipers would like to think. The blank idea also plays nicely into the urban legend the siblings have going on. Throughout the series, Sora and Shiro delight in capturing various things in those metaphorical brackets, like one would in a camera lens, and thus claiming those things for their own. The official way of writing that term within the series is just an empty space within Japanese brackets like this: 「 」. The series does get plenty of mileage out of the blank idea. We have Sora (sky) and Shiro (white), whose names put together just happen to form the word blank (kuuhaku).įor a long time, I thought that was it. No Game No Life is pretty upfront about the basic idea behind the names of its characters.
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