『トブルクの魔女』全文掲載

水無月十三さんの絵を古川ヘッツァーさんが彩色した『トブルクの魔女』のイメージイラストです。

少しでも多くの方々に小生の『トブルクの魔女』を楽しんでいただければと思い、小説本編をpixivに公開しました。

飽くまでも小説本編だけですので付随する挿絵や地図は同人誌版をご参照ください。

また、同人誌版ではたくさんの方々が寄稿されていますので、是非ともご購入をご検討ください！

第8装甲連隊C92夏コミ情報と依託情報とC93冬コミ情報

かなり遅れてしまって申し訳ありませんが、夏コミ前後からかなりヒドイデスマーチ状態です。

夏コミで無事新刊を発行するのに漕ぎ着けました！

『トブルクの魔女設定資料集第二巻』ではこれまで書き溜めた設定に加えて新たに色々追加設定を書き下ろしました。少しでも『トブルクの魔女』の世界観の奥行きを楽しんでいただければ幸いです。

『トブルクの魔女設定資料集第二巻』の版形はB5で、総ページは84ページとなっています。今回はカラー口絵を4ページ追加しました。

今回もまた素晴らしいなゲスト陣に恵まれました。
（順不同・敬称略）：
水無月十三
蒔野靖弘
こにし ひろし
A士
VT
Erica
Ein Lee
迂闊十臓
逢摩文七朗
長谷川竹光
高永浩平

『トブルクの魔女設定資料集第二巻』の委託販売は現在とらのあなで行われていますので、もしご興味ありましたら是非ともご参照下さい。

当日、会場限定本を出しました。

こちらはまだ若干する残っているので、冬コミの会場に持ち込もうと考えています。ご興味ある方はC93冬コミにご来場下さい。

それで2017年の冬コミですが、無事当選しました！

冬のコミックマーケット、三日目のN13bでお会いできれば幸いです！

こちらで見ると場所がわかりやすいと思います。Circle・MSのページです。

Patreonアダルトコンテンツメーカーの怒り

Patreonとは米国のクリエイター支援プラットフォームで、月額や投稿毎に資金援助するのを取り持つクラウドファンディングサービスです。日本よりは海外で人気のサービスですが、海外在住の日本のアニメ・マンガ絵柄のクリエーターで活用している人は少なくありません。

元々は音楽家活動する人を支援するシステムとして始まったそうですが、その後は映画作家やイラストレーター、コスプレなど創作行為全体を支援する一大クリエータープラットフォームとなっています。Patreonがないと生活出来ない！という人も結構増えました。

Patreonではエロについては「ポルノはダメだけど、アダルトはOK」という曖昧な基準で知られていました。これは取引相手の銀行やカード業者などに対していい子であるように振る舞いつつ、クリエーターに対してはかなりの自由度を約束する「良いとこ取り」といえるかもしれません。

何をもってポルノとするかは見る人の主観によって非常に大きく影響されるので米国でも日本でも明確な基準は難しいです。一応Patreonとしては「R指定程度ならいいけど、AVは勘弁ね。でもアクセス制限すれば（18歳以上はみちゃダメというタグ付け）をすれば大目に見るよ」という姿勢でした。

Patreonはそもそも米国のソフトコア・ポルノの基準を意識しているといえるでしょう。「おヌードはOKだけど、接合部分の接写はダメ」「セックス描写全般はOKだけど、ハードなSM行為は勘弁してね」ーー表向きはこんな具合であったと私は理解しています。具体的には次のような描写が禁止となっています：

• 一律禁止：実写・創作物問わず未成年者を性的に取り扱う表現
• 禁止：強姦や性暴力を称賛するような描写

この他にもPatreon側が問題あると判断したコンテンツを規制する権限を明記していました。

かなり自由度がありますが、これでも日本の商業誌・同人誌に掲載され、米国の法律でも表現の自由の範疇に含まれるとされる作品（いわゆる合法的な表現）も禁止する基準です。日本のクリエーターからするとあまり自由とは言えない。しかし元々日本の商業誌や同人誌での自由を知らない人たちからすると「十分な自由」と見えたこともあって、海外在住の日本アニメ・マンガ絵柄に強く影響を受けた方々のあいだではPatreonは非常に人気の高いプラットフォームでした。

しかもPatreon側は性産業に携わる方々に対してクレジットカード業者が渋るのを是正したり、エロについても（米国的には）寛容な姿勢を打ち出してクリエーターらにとっても魅力があることを打ち出していました。外連味が強すぎる表現、政治的に不穏当な主張、危なっかしい題材を含まないコンテンツ、すなわち都会派のインテリにとっては許容できないコンテンツ以外の支援を強く主張したかったのだと私は解釈しています。ですから同性愛や女性自身に寄る性的表現には大らかであったと思っています。

さてこんな綱渡りをしていたPatreonのエロ・コンテツへの許容ですが、2017年10月17日に改訂されて大騒ぎとなりました。改訂において禁止事項がより具体的になったのです。一応以下に全文を掲載しますが、要約するとーー

• 実写・創作物問わず次のような性暴力を称賛するような描写の禁止：
  未成年を性的に取り扱う表現を含む未成年の搾取描写
  強姦などの性暴力
  獣姦
• 近親相姦、死姦、同意に基づく性交かどうか判断しにくいフェチ行為などのきわどい表現も禁止。

しかしながら近親相姦や強姦などは実際には発生する事象なので被害者が困難を乗り越えたのを奨励するような体験談までは排除しない、としています。

そしてここが大事なところですが、資金支援してくれる人たちへの報奨として次のようなものを提供するのを禁止：

• 自慰行為、性行為を撮影
• ウェブサイトを運営
• 私的な映像コンテンツのストリーミング放送
• などなど

We have zero tolerance when it comes to the glorification of sexual violence which includes bestiality, rape, and child exploitation (i.e., sexualized depiction of minors). This is true for illustrated, animated, or any other type of content. Patreon reserves the right to review and remove accounts that may violate this guideline. As a strong commitment to child safety, we will work with law enforcement whenever we come across child exploitation.

We also do not allow other fringe sexual fetish content, such as incest, necrophilia, or fetish content that is hard to distinguish from non-consensual sex.

We understand that some topics on this list such as incest or rape are a little bit more complicated because these situations are, unfortunately, part of real life. As a result, when reviewing this type of content, the Trust and Safety team will take into consideration context including personal, historical or educational narrative. For example, survivor stories or fiction such as Game of Thrones or Lolita are allowed on Patreon.

Lastly, you cannot sell pornographic material or arrange sexual service(s) as a reward for your patrons. We define pornographic material as real people engaging in sexual acts such as masturbation or sexual intercourse on camera. You can’t use Patreon to raise funds in order to produce pornographic material such as maintaining a website, funding the production of movies, or providing a private webcam session.

https://www.patreon.com/guidelines

ポルノコンテンツの排除をより強く押し出したのですが、欧米では大騒ぎです。

Patreon moves to restrict adult content on its crowdfunding site
Porn makers challenge Patreon ban on pornography crowdfunding
Porn-makers challenge Patreon’s crowdfunding ban
The real consequences of Patreon’s adult content crackdown

非常に簡単に要約すると「これまでアダルトコンテンツについてはなるべく支援するって言っていたのに、内容規制だけじゃなくてファンとの対話を規制するとはどういうことだ！」という怒りが特に実写系の人たちのあいだで爆発しています。比較的穏当なコンテンツになりがちな実写系エロを提供しているクリエーターからすれば援助してくれるファンへのお礼としてエロいかっこうしてポーズとったり、性行為を撮影したり、描写物の作成、ウェブサイトを運営したり、私的な映像コンテンツのストリーミング放送をおこなったりすることの禁止は、これまでのやり取りを真っ向から否定する、もの凄い大ダメージになるのです。

どこまで本当かどうかわかりませんが、「Patreonがなかったら私はホームレスになっている！」という声も噴き出しており、巨大なプラットフォームとして大きく頼りになっている存在が突然、方向転換したことに対してかなりの騒動になっている模様です。

本当はより詳しく検証したいのですが、今回はここまでとさせてください。

いくら日本ではあまり浸透していないとはいえ、欧米の一大プラットフォームにおいて日本では話題になっていないのが不思議だったのでちょっと言及させて頂きました。

8th Panzer Regiment News – June, 2017 C92夏コミ当選ご報告、その他

I have been busy. I am very sorry about not updating as much as I should have. I have posted some information on Twitter, but that only lasts for moments at a time, so I really should post more information on the blog as well.

First of all, my doujinshi circle’s application to Comic Market 92 was approved. My booth will be at L-21a on the third day (Sunday) of Comiket. Unlike conventions outside of Japan, doujinshi publishers only have one day to display and sell their wares at most doujinshi exhibition marketplaces.

Wonderful artwork by the talented Mr.Minazuki Juzo featuring Kümmel and Newton used as the circle cut (spot illustration used as self-introduction in the Comic Market Catalog.)

I hope to have a new book ready for summer Comiket, so please stay tuned.

お久しぶりです。当サークル「第８装甲連隊」は、コミックマーケット92に当選しました！3日目の日曜日東地区Ｌ-21bに配置されました。新刊は『獅子の魔女第6巻』を予定しています。何卒宜しくお願い致します！

上のサークルカットは水無月十三さんの描いたキュンメルさんとニュートンさんを収めたツーショット。普段とは違う表情のニュートンが見れるのがかわいいですね。

I actually published a new book for Comic 1 held on April 30th. Desert Flowers is my first Lionheart Witch series book that only includes English.

実は4月30日に開催されたコミック１で新刊『Desert Flowers』を発行していました。当サークル初めての英語のみの同人誌です。

This was an experimental book aimed at testing the waters for publishing a book exclusively for an overseas market. The book was made available at Doujin Market – Doujima held in Singapore and DoKomi held in Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

この本は海外向けに当サークルの本がどのように受け入れるかを確認するための実験でした。シンガポールで開催された同人マーケット-Doujimaとドイツ・デュッセルドルフで開催されたDoKomiで販売されいました。

The print run was not very large so unless there is a second printing, it may be hard to buy this book. Please let me know if you are interested in projects such as these. I am plan on selling what remaining copies I have at doujinshi marketplaces in Japan.

この本の発行部数は決して多くなく、再販しない限りは入手が難しいことになるかもしれません。もし需要があれば検討しますが、ご要望の旨をご連絡いただけますと大変恐縮です。現時点で残っている在庫は国内の会場限定頒布とすることを予定しております。

That is all for the moment. I hope to have more material ready for you in the near future. Please let me know what you think.

現時点ではだいたいそんなところです。新しい作品を皆さんにご提供できるように努力いたします。ご意見ご感想ありましたら、どうかお知らせ下さい。

Old Notes regarding Zip Drives from 1997

Below are notes that I wrote regarding Zip Drives in 1997. This information was on my old website before it was revamped. I am only reprinting this for archival purposes. The information included below should be considered subjective observations by a non-technical person trying to make intelligent analysis–You have been warned!

Notes regarding Iomega’s Zip Drive
Author:Dan Kanemitsu

Introduction

        Iomega’s Zip drives were able to achieve remarkable success as mass storage devices.  The 3 1/2″ floppy disks are still great for storing and transporting simple text files and crude graphics, but can’t do much else anymore.  Its capacity is too limited in an age when the average size of image files are around 100KB and video files are each at least each several MB big.  The other option was the tape, but backing up on to tape media is a slow and cumbersome process best reserved for backing up entire systems and large data libraries.  Tapes are not very suitable for incremental archiving and another big problem with them is that there is no straight forward standard like the floppy, where almost any other machine can read a floppy your machine wrote.  There are QIC and other standards but a lot of the tape backup system uses proprietary media and/or data storage scheme.  And you gotta keep in mind, not every body has a tape backup unit.

 

        The Magnito-Optical Drive (aka MO drive) became the standard in Japan relatively easily, but in America, where tape backup units had already been prevalent, the high cost of MO drives detracted from the attractiveness of the devices, especially when compared to the tape backup units.  The fact that SCSI was not a popular standard in America also worked against the MO drive, but in any case, Iomega’s Zip drive filled the void that could have filled by MO drives.

        The market was screaming for a fairly reliable, relatively inexpensive mass storage device that could work like a floppy but had a storage capacity that was far greater.  Iomega’s Zip drive that can store 100MB on each disk (actually after you format it to MS-DOS, it comes out to more like 95.7MB) was the right device at the right time.  In America, Iomega’s Zip drive has become the defacto standard for medium sized removable storage.  SyQuest’s EzFlyer with 230MB each and Imation’s LS-120 120MB next generation floppy drives are still strong but for the moment it seems that the Iomega has been able to push aside the competition thanks to the (relatively) low cost of storage media and the drive itself.
 

Zip Drive Variations

        Iomega currently (12/97) makes 5 different versions of the Zip drive.  All the five different drives use the same media but each connect and interface with the host computer system in a separate way.  It was considerate and ingenious on the behalf of Iomega to market all these different variations.  People can thus choose the drive system that best fits their needs.  The problem is that not all the devices handle the same way.

External Parallel Interface Zip Drive [EPI Zip]
        These are the easiest to maintain and configure.  The one great advantage of the External Parallel Zip drive is that it can interface with nearly any IBM clone system.  As a rule, if the machine has a printer port, then this baby will work.
        Now there are some important prerequisites:  The printer port must be a bi-directional parallel port.  Some of the older systems don’t have this but anything that’s half way not obsolete will have this.  One thing they don’t mention in the documentation but something I have learned from personal experience is that the speed of the UART chip and/or the CPU can make a big difference in the performance of the Zip Drive.  If you have a slow computer (486SX25Mhz or 486DLC2) then be prepared for a long wait when you backup your HDD.  It took me some 3 hours to backup a PS/V’s 200MB HDD.  The same back up will take less then 20 minutes on a Pentium200.
        The UART chip is the chip that controls the flow of information going through the serial and parallel ports.
        You can play games off the Zip drive.  I have copied the various versions of ID software’s DOOM and DOOM2 onto the Zip and played it off the disk without any significant problems.  The game will take a little longer in loading while it’s loading the levels, but once the fighting begins, you should not suffer from any performance setbacks associated with the Zip drive.  Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D have all been tested.  Blood will probably run but some of the newer games that require more then 90MB might not.
        Overall the external parallel version is the best is you are looking for the widest possible compatibility.

External SCSI Interface Zip Drive [ESI Zip]
        I haven’t had the chance to play with this one yet, but if the EPSI Zip drive (see below) running in SCSI mode is of any indication, these are true screamers.  Hard drive like performance coming from a removable storage medium.  My strong impression is that the EPSI is much faster then the III.  See below in my notes about EPSI Zips for more information on the performance of the ESI Zip.
        Interestingly enough Fry’s in Southern California was selling refurbished ESI for $10 below the refurbished EPI’s price.  Does this mean there is not as strong demand for the SCSI units?
        I don’t know if there is a significant difference between the Apple/Mac version and the IBM version of the EPSI Zips.

Internal IDE Interface Zip Drive [III Zip]
        Many pre-packaged systems sold from large OEM’s feature this version of the Zip drive.  The greatest advantage of the internal IDE version is that it is fairly fast and you can easily added to your existing hardware structure.  It will write and read off the disks at speeds that feel like old MFM or ESDI hard drives so it’s pretty fast.  The disadvantages to the III are that there are hardest to incorporate into a multiple partition hard drive environment and they seem to be most prone to breakdown due to the nature of the unit being internal.  Now I know it’s hard to believe that the internal ones are more prone to breakdown but all the experience that I have had with III indicates that they are.  More on this in the “Problems” section.

Internal SCSI Interface Zip Drive [ISI Zip]
        Probably the fastest of the Zip drives right next to the ESI and EPSI Zips.  All the SCSI interface Zips don’t have as many bottle necks in the flow of information.  There is no slow UART chip that might slow performance as in the case of the EPI Zips and we all know that SCSI is usually faster then E-IDE.  Rumor has is that the Zip drive was designed first and foremost as a SCSI device and Iomega added the parallel port features in order to expand its sales prospects and market share for removable mass storage.
        Of course the ISI suffers from the same limitations that the III are faced with regarding breakdowns.  Look below in the “Problems” section for more on the nature of the internal Zip drives.

External Parrallel/SCSI port Interface compatible Zip Drive [EPSI Zip]
        This newest addition are being marketed as the ZipPlus but from what I gather there has been no break through in the performance of the Zip drives themselves.  The speed is the same and the capacity is the same from what we had before.  The advantage of the EPSI Zips are that they can double as EPI Zips or EPSI Zips.  The EPSI Zip drive will automatically detect what kind of interface you are using and accommodate to that interface.  Very handy.
        The writing speed of an EPSI Zip in SCSI mode can go anywhere up to 1MB/sec in writing time.  A far cry form 0.5MB/min (18KB/sec) average performance of the EPI Zips.
        EPSI Zip drives are great for those of us that want to take advantage of a SCSI card in our system, but don’t want to forfeit the advantages of the parallel port.
        The ZipPlus comes with a whole bunch of software.
 

Problems

Disk comes flying out when ejected from the drive:
        This seems to be a problem that is associated with all the external versions of the Zip drive.  The spring seems to be a little too strong, resulting in the disks being catapulted out of the drive.  The problem seems to be the worst when the drive is placed horizontally.  The best you can do is to place your hand over the insertion slot and prevent the disk from plunging toward its death.  A friend of mine nearly lost all his hard earned data when the disk flew out and smashed on the concrete floor, cracking the disk into two.  Luckily, he could make another backup easily.

Internal IDE Zip always wants to be the D drive:
        The internal IDE (III) Zip seems to have a peculiar tendency of reporting itself as always asserting itself as the D drive with MS-DOS 6.22 and Win95.  No matter where you attach the III Zip along the E-IDE drive, it always wants to be D.  I’ve once I talked to the technical support people of System Commander and he also reported hearing that there is no way around that in DOS622/Win95.
        This peculiar phenomena does not seem to manifest itself in WinNT but be rest assured, WinNT has its own share of problems with III Zips.

The Windows NT internal IDE Zip drive nightmare:
        To be blunt, normal people are not suppose to install the drivers of the III Zip in WinNT.  Or at least it seems that way.
        Windows NT 4 seems to have a difficult time recognizing the internal Zip drive.  The problem is so bad that WinNT4 will stumble on the III during installation.  The III seems to emulate an IDE hard drive in order to interface with the system.  The problem is that it emulates it so well that the WinNT4 installation program thinks that the III is a hard drive.  A hard drive with no boot track.  With no media in the drive, the installation program cannot go on because it keeps looking for the MBR that it thinks is there.  You end up having to insert a disk so that the installation can go on.  The problem is now that the OS is under the impression that the III is a real hard drive.
        Under these circumstance, Iomega’s Guest program cannot find the Zip drive.  Without the Guest program there is no way to properly interface the Zip drive.  Well it also happens that the necessary Zip Setup program for WinNT4 is in the ZipTools disk that comes with your drive.  What does this mean?  The very program you need is stored in a form you do not have access to.
        Let’s review.  You need the WinNT4 Zip Setup disk to get the III Zip working, but that very program is only available on a Zip disk,  and the program that’s suppose to temporarily bridge this gasp does not work.
        Most people would call tech support at a point like this, but being the stupid and adventurous hacker-wannabe, I proceeded to find another way to counter this obstacle.
        For me, the solution was relatively simple.  I transferred the necessary Setup files onto my MO disk and installed it off of there.  After the necessary reboot, NT recognized the Zip drive like how it should.  Everything worked fine, until I wanted to remove the III drivers software.
        Below I discuss the problems with having two Zip drivers in one system.  In any case when I bought the ZipPlus (EPSI Zip), I needed to remove the drivers that were on the system already.  I figured that IDE drivers would not work well with a SCSI device.  To my horror I discovered that there was no uninstall program.  Furthermore, there was no documentation regarding uninstallation.
        Will the nightmares ever end?

Why do internal Zip drives suck?:
        I have noticed that internally mounted Zip drives are more prone to breakdowns.  I have no statistics to back up opinion up, but I have overheard others talk about how the internal sucks.
        I have had my internal IDE drive malfunction on me three times in 18 months.  Two of the malfunctions would be classified as “critical malfunctions” as the drive could read no information off the disks, and furthermore, destroyed the information on any disks that were inserted.  In the case of the third time, the malfunction did not last long and it fixed itself.  It was only a minor inconvenience.
        However the fact that the drive malfunctioned and destroyed information on disks when it was only reading data made me feel real uneasy about using a Zip drive as a backup device.  But these experiences also prompted me to think deep and hard about what is going on here.
        I considered the possibility that my room was too dusty.  But dust alone could not explain what was going on.  A friend of mine also owns a Zip and his place is far more dusty then my place.  The only difference between his Zip and mine was that mine Zip was an internal (III) and his was an external (EPI).
        The key to this mystery is to understand how the Zip drives physically work, and I’m under the impression that Zip drives are remarkably similar to hard drives.  So similar enough that Zip drives are prone to suffer from the same draw backs that are commonly attributed to hard drives.
        Hard drives read and write data on to the hard magnetic surface of the platter by having the read/write head float amazingly close above the media.  The distance between the head and the disk is so small, if the drive head was the size of a jumbo jet (Boeing 747), the distance between the head and the disk is about the size of a match box on its side.  When you have something comes in between the two objects, you have a physical head crash.
        Normally hard drives don’t have to worry about problems like this because the insides of the hard drive is hermetically sealed to prevent the introduction of foreign objects into the environment.  This is not the case with Zip drives.  Those units are less then air tight.  They have to be, or else there is no way to insert and remove the disks.
        So it makes sense that the Zip drives are a lot more susceptible to head crashing due to dust, but why are the internals more vulnerable than the externals?  The key word here is airflow.
        The internally mounted Zip dives have considerable amount of airflow coming through them.  Or at least it should.  That’s because the fans inside the power supply pull air in through the front and pump it out the back.  This seemingly innocent feature in the cooling mechanism of PC is the spells disaster for the internally mounted Zip drives.  That’s because all that air that’s being pulled in also pulls in lots of dust and it all accumulates along anything that partially blocks the flow.  In my system’s case, the Zip drive acts as a filter and lots of lint and dust manages to attach itself to the insides of the drive.
        This is not the case with external units.  These is no airflow in them.  This is why I believe the external Zip drives are a lot more reliable compared to the internal drives.  Let me know if you have any theories.

What is the deal with faulty Zip disks?:
        To my knowledge, there are no “bad” disks.  As I have described to you previously in section above, when a Zip drive breaks down, the consequences can be devastating upon any disk that is inserted into the faulty drive.
        Let’s say that the drive fails at one time.  You might dismiss it that the disk is bad and set it aside, through in another one and keep on working.  At this point, you probably have destroyed the data on the second disk.  The malfunctioning drive head will destroy the file structure in the MBR, preventing you from ever accessing the information on the disk.  If you hear a repetitive clicking sound (sounds something like “Ka-Chingk Ka-Chingk Ka-Chingk”), then the drive is choking on the disk and it might be a goner.

Two Zip drives in one system:
        So far I have not been able to find the secret to configuring multiple Zip drives in one system.  The Guest (Guest95 in the case of Win95) program seem to stop looking after it find the first drive.

Miscellaneous Notes:

Early production runs of the Zip drives went bad?
        This is not a rumor that has been confirmed but this news got a lot of attention in the English speaking newsgroups.  It seems that the production of Zip drives were taking place in the Philippines, and according to the sources on the newsgroups, there was short fall in the quality control for a time.  Supposedly, this happened in the early initial stages when they had started manufacturing Zip drives and there were suffering from problems that related to simplification and efficiency management of the production line.  Rumors are that there were fairly large number of individuals who bought the Zip drive in the early days that consequently discovered their Zip drive to be malfunctioning.  It has been reported that Iomega sent out instructions to retails to exchange any drives that are reported to by the user to be faulty.

The Tragedy with SCSI Zip drives forced to become IDE or Parallel device.
        Reports indicate that the Zip drive was designed initially as a SCSI device.  This makes sense considering the fact that the Zip drive’s performance is at it’s best when operating as a SCSI device.  But SCSI is not a protocol universal in America.  I mean a lot of people have SCSI but everybody has IDE.  Fearing that the American consumers might not find a device dedicated to the SCSI format to be as enticing, Iomega worked on the Zip drive so that it could be compatible with other protocols.  Iomega might have feared of the fate that MO drives suffered from as the MO was a dedicated SCSI device.  (However Ultra33 IDE compatible MO drives were released in Dec. 1997.)
        You can see the SCSI legacy alive in the other versions of the Zip drive, as even the external parallel Zip interfaces through a pseudo SCSI driver software.

The Dentists are in the House

A new title is always exciting to work with, and if its a new title from Studio khara, the powerhouse that produces the new Evangelion rebuild series, I don’t think I need to impress upon you just how much more special the occasion is.

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to participate in Japan Anima(tor) Expo, an experimental short film series made possible by the partnership between khara and DWANGO. I provided translations and subtitles to about over 1/2 of the episodes that required subtitles. (Some episodes where just songs or “making of” type episodes that didn’t have any English subtitles.) I just looked back at the list and I did episodes 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30, 32, 34, and Extra, which was the Patlabor short.

The first episode was the The Dragon Dentist. It was a unique and bold title. It tool me some time to figure out different things, since this was so new and original.

And here I am, two and a half years later, coming back to this wonderful gem.

I supervised the English dub version of Dragon Dentist that will air on March 18th and 19th of 2017. Anyone overseas should be able to watch it, or so I have been told.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/…/…/special/episode/201703180810.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/anime/ryu/en/index.html

I supervised the acting, edited the dialog and verified various aspects of this project. I would like to extend my deepest appreciation for all the staff and crew that made this project possible.

I talked to Mr. Tsurumaki and Mr. Maijo about this title to get a better feel for how the translation should be conducted, and therefore I can say with some confidence in stating that this English dub captures the spirit and direction of the original title to the best of my abilities.

I chose the terms carefully, trying my best to balance the needs of making the title accessible to wider audiences, while at the same time maintaining the nuances of the original. I personally oversaw the acting of the primarily voice talent and tried my best to steer them toward performances that I felt best matches the expectations of the original creators.

We invested a lot of effort in this project, so hopefully the response will be strong. Please remember that it is very expensive to do something like this and if the response is weak, that will make it all the more difficult to put together international releases within Japan.
I think the best thing to do is to respond to the following NHK twitter account if you want your voice to be heard.
https://twitter.com/nhk_anime100

They won’t be able to respond in English most of the time, but they would still appreciate to hear from everyone about the project. Please let them know what you think!

英語における兵隊の呼称

日本語で「兵士」・「兵隊」といえば軍隊全体に通用しますが、英語では
それぞれの軍隊にあわせて個別の表現があります。

米陸軍、英陸軍：ソルジャー soldier
米軍愛称：グラント grunts
英軍愛称：スクワッディー squaddie

米海軍：セーラー sailor
米海軍愛称：ブルージャケット bluejacket
英海軍：シーマン seaman（セーラーも可）
英海軍愛称：ジャック、ジャック・タール Jack, Jack Tar

米海兵隊：マリーン Marine（頭文字大文字）
米海兵隊愛称：ジャーヘッド Jarheads
英王立海兵隊：ロイヤル・マリーン Royal Marine
英王立海兵隊愛称：ロイヤルズ Royals、ブートネックス Bootnecks
英米海兵隊共通愛称：レザーネックス leathernecks

米空軍：エアマン airman
英空軍：アイクラフトマン aircraftman
英陸軍航空隊：エアトルーパー airtrooper
注：パイロットと搭乗員は通常、pilotsとaircrewなどと呼称します。aviatorという表現もあります。

州兵と予備役
州兵：ガーズマン guardsmen
予備役：リザービスト reservist

兵科別—
騎兵、機械化騎兵（戦車部隊の一部）：トルーパー trooper
戦車兵：タンカー tanker
竜騎兵(跨乗歩兵)：ドラグーン dragoon
砲兵：ガンナー gunner
擲弾兵：グレネディア grenadier
戦闘工兵：サッパー sapper
等々……

servicemanという全軍に通用する一般的な表現がありますが、日本語で言
えば「兵員」が最も近いかもしれません。即ち一般論などでは活用できる
方言ですが、軍隊内では決して用いない表現です。

上官が部下たちに呼びかける場合には所属している軍隊にあわせた表現を
用いるのがもっともそれらしい表現になるので可能な限り活用したいです
。

もちろん非軍人が兵士を総てソルジャーかセイラーと呼ぶことは珍しくあ
りません。