THE FINDER (the book of Surge Concerto illustrations by ntny-san) has arrived! I was worried whether the book was damaged since it was stuck forcibly into the post, but it was all right. It is fun to read some shocking comments in the book. It also includes the illustration of the poster ntny-san made I wrote about in the post of Oct. 2nd. However, the only bad point is that lighting effect on the page makes it very hard to read letters...
表紙に書いてある言葉は、ntnyさん自身の言葉か、それともイオンの台詞かな（そんなこと言ってたと思う）。表紙絵のようなシチュエーションってイオンがラシェーラに残った後長い時間が経って、イオンの家も跡形もなくなって…という感じでしか考えられませんが、なにか別の想定があるのかしら。
Are these words on the cover is by ntny-san himself or Ion? (I remember she has said a similar thing in the game.) This is how I suppose of the situation described in the cover illustration: Long time passed after Ion had decided to stay at Ra Ciela, and Ion's house was ruined completely...or is there any other assumption?
>Later 22:03
THE FINDERの後ろの方にあるエロ絵を見て、妙に複雑な気持ちになるというか単純に喜べないのは私だけだろうか。発売時のPR絵が大半と思いますが、嫁の魅力を十二分に知っている身としてはわざわざそんな事しなくていいのにと感じます。何だろう、架空なのに身近に思いすぎているような。
As I see erostic illustrations in THE FINDER, I have mixed feelings, not just simply happy...is it only me? I guess most of those illustrations were drawn for advertisement at the time of release, but I, knowing how charming Ion is very well, feel somehow she doesn't have to do such thing. I wonder what is it...even though I know she's not real, I can't help recognizing she is close to me.
この例に限らず、そもそも18禁ではない作品の宣伝で当然のように（日本では）女性キャラが脱ぐというのはどうなのか、ひいては現実の女性にも無関係じゃない問題を感ぜずにはいられないのですが、それを語りだすと話が広がりすぎてしまいますので、今はやめておきます。二次元と人権の関わりは、私が個人的に十年以上前から考えている命題でもあるので、このブログの終わりの時にでもまとめて書きたいと思います。
Not only this example, first of all, is it suitable to make female characters naked for advertisement of a work which is not rated as an adult content? (It is not actually special in Japan.) I feel there is a problem which is not unrelated to women in reality either, but this subject would go too far to talk for now. Since the relationship between fictional "moe" works and human rights is the theme I personally have been thinking of for more than ten years, I plan to write about that at the end of this blog altogether.
オフラインのイオンがもうお風呂に行ったので、昨日の画像を。料理を冷やしている時に、「気がついたらいつも一人で歌ってる？！」と急に自覚するイオン。いや、一人暮らしなら歌うし独り言いうよ。…言うよ？
Ion in OFFLINE has gone to take a bath already, so I put up a picture I took yesterday. During cooling down ingredients, she suddenly realized that she always sang alone. Don't mind, if you're living alone, you sing and talk to yourself...you do.
Ion:
...I shouldn't have realized that.
My heart rather becomes cold...
