[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Or they could just do what they did with "Warring" and put a little accent somewhere.

Afterall, they never explained why "Warring" had an accent, so either way they're not explaining something. Or, better yet, just not translate it because this isn't a history lesson it's a TV show and these are online subs.

I like Magenta's translation of Warring. Here's his reasoning, from his translation notes on episode 2:

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Sengoku

Let’s get our terms right first. Warring States = 戦国. Warring States Period = 戦国時代.

The name of the belt is 戦極ドライバー. That’s something different. It’s still “Sengoku,” but instead of koku (“nation”), it’s goku (“extreme”). That’s wham bam extreme with a capital X. So what we settled on is “Wärring Driver.”

The reason is that what we’re looking at is a word that’s supposed to remind you of “Warring States,” but instead of actually being that, it’s “Warring Awesome.” This makes sense because what the show is referring to is a) the war scene at the very beginning b) the competition for turf on the streets of Zawame, and then obliquely to the actual Warring States Period. Saying “states” doesn’t even make sense in this context. In light of all that and the need to choose a single English word for the name of the machine, we deemed the word “states” superfluous and dropped it.

“Warring” is enough of a slightly weird word that it still references the word “Warring States” specifically if you recognize it and more or less fits the show’s theme if you don’t. Basically, we think that the name “Wärring Driver” has about as much to do with the Warring States Period as the word 戦極 itself.

As for the ümlaut, that’s because 極 just has that effect. For clarification, here’s what that means. Basically the way they write ‘goku’ is like Mortal Kombat being spelt with a K or ‘Xtreme’ starting X
There’s no space in ‘Warring’ to put an X or a K or a Z or something like that in so… umlaut.

So, yeah. A controversial choice, but a reasonable one. I, personally, like it -- and it doesn't hurt that “Wärring Driver” is just a badass sounding name.

EDIT: Zeo's link above has even more in-depth explanation.