Still not Sophie.

Last update 10/2/2025 (Added Aki Toyosaki's comments. And would you look at that, there were only those six anyway, so this is done now unless I come back to edit it.)

I was always planning to do this anyway, but I thought since it would be less insightful on the creation and inspiration of the story, I'd do it a billion years later and focus on Aikawa's prequel novel instead. But the prequel novel is hard for my unfluent eyes! I don't know these kanji! I am unimpressed with the speed of my progress trying to read it but don't want to become discouraged, so for now I'll just do that tiny bit by tiny bit on my days off from work and do stuff like this and other easier things alongside it and on work days. I like to feel like I'm accomplishing things. I need that dopamine. I'm a druggie, gimme my instant gratification and I'll eventually learn enough kanji and git gud at grammar so the novel will become instant gratification in its own right.

... Anyway. Today is Cast Comments Day. I added the parenthetical "voice of whoever" to the titles for your convenience. Enjoy!

Special Interview with Kaito Ishikawa (voice of Jirou Hitoyoshi) (July 3, 2015) ( Read more... )
New Comments from Sumire Uesaka (voice of Kikko Hoshino) have arrived!! (September 18, 2015) ( Read more... )
New Comments from Kaito Ishikawa (voice of Jirou Hitoyoshi) have arrived!! (September 18, 2015) ( Read more... )
New Comments from Eriko Nakamura (voice of Fuurouta) have arrived!! (October 18, 2015) ( Read more... )
New Comments from Tokuyoshi Kawashima (voice of Hyouma Yoshimura) have arrived!! (November 27, 2015) ( Read more... )
New Comments from Aki Toyosaki (voice of Emi Kino) have arrived!! (December 11, 2015) ( Read more... )

Last year today, Mutsumi Inomata passed away at 63. I wished she could have stayed longer. I love her character designs, as a loser who got extremely extremely into Tales games (particularly Destiny remake, Rebirth, Graces, Berseria, and I'll throw Zesty in too for good measure). I was such a fan of her character designs and her watercolor art I watched all kinds of random things like Acrobunch and I even went through the pain of watching Brain Powerd. Truly. I saw that before I got into Gundam, so Toshiyuki Tomino meant little to me. All I cared about was Yoko Kanno and the person I want to celebrate today with this translation: Mutsumi Inomata.

This interview is centered on Genmu Senki Leda, a nice, contained, memorable movie/OVA that she served as animation director and character designer for. It was 10 pages long in the book (though there were also a lot of her sketches of Leda characters on the pages), and took me some time to translate. I also transcribe books by typing everything up first and search for unknown kanji by radical instead of using automated tools so screw you it took a long time to do all the things. The interview is not ultra in-depth about process type things, but Inomata's personality shows through really clearly in it, and it's actually really entertaining because of that. I also just am so happy to hear about some of her tastes. Like, she watched Gamba no Bouken and she likes hardboiled noir type stories. Anyway, I'm rambling now. Let's do this. Bold is interviewer, the rest is Inomata.

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That moment when you're flipping through your book that already alarmed you with its nudity all over its cover and realize that the reason the OP of this anime is full of naked anorexic women is because Inomata painted the main character nude like fifty times.

I started translating the interview contained in this Spiral nudity Book of this horrible anime that I have an odd attachment to (screw you, Inomata and Yoko Kanno) with Mutsumi Inomata, the character designer. I didn't finish it because I don't finish anything and I was offended that Tomino doesn't like Inomata's art. Goodbye.

EDIT: just kidding I finished it a year later have fun

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