May 24, 2016

改めて見返すと、アルシエルよりラシェーラの方が女性の社会的地位が高い気がします。象徴的なのがこの場面。最高権力者の皇帝が女性なのは無論、先遣隊のリーダーも女性なんですね。安易に男性にしないところに感心しました。

Watching over the story now, I think women's position in the society of Ra Ciela is higher than that in Ar Ciel.  This scene is symbolic.  Not only Empress, paramount of the government, is a woman, a leader of the research team is a woman as well.  I was impressed staffs didn't let the leader be a man easily.

Ion:
To your worthy courage, I pray for the grace of Ra Ciela.

May 19, 2016

小説読んだ人はみんなやったと思いますが、アルノサージュDLCの「寧、はるか遠く」を再プレイしました。改めて見ると、ゆめきちのモデルもすごく精巧なことに感心します。口が動くところとか微妙に怖いし、寧のセンスを絶妙に表現していますね。

I played Ar nosurge DLC "Nei, Far Away" again.  I guess every game player who had read the novel did it.  By playing over now, I was impressed that Yumekichi's 3-D figure was very elaborate either.  It is slightly scary when his mouth moves; I think it superbly expresses Nei's sense.

Nei Yuuki:
Ah, well, his name is Yumekichi!
He is a robot with A.I. I just have finished last night.

May 15, 2016

小説「ユーキさん！トナリのセカイはホントにアルノですか？ゆきねライフロギング！②」感想

糸井健一・著　桜ノ杜ぶんこ（一二三書房）

Impression for the novel "Yuuki-san!  Does the World Next to Us Really Exist?: Yuuki Nei Life Logging! Vol.2"

Written by Kenichi Itoi, published by Hifumi Shobo Co.,Ltd.

長らく延期されていたので、もう続きは出ないのかと思っていました。私はAmazonのお薦め表示で偶然発売を知って、即購入しました。（届いた箱に実際の物が入っていないというアクシデントもありましたが。）

そんな小説２巻ですが、今回は一言で言って「完全に初心者お断りだけど、ゲームのプレイヤーには断然お薦め」です。が、ショッキングな展開を含むので、寧がひどい目に遭うのに耐えられない人は読まない方がいいかもしれません。今回も内容がゲームのネタバレ全開のため、ここで区切りを入れます。構わない人のみ進んでください。

Since it had been delayed for so long, I was thinking it wouldn't be published any more.  I just happened to know that the book was going to be out from Amazon's recommendation, then I clicked on it in no time.  (There was an accident that somehow the book was not in Amazon's box arrived to my house.)

For Vol.2 of the novel, my short impression is "It is completely not for beginners, but I certainly recommend it for players of the game." However, it also contains some violent contents, thus maybe you'd better not to read it if you can't stand that Nei is getting screwed.  Like Vol.1, the novel contains a lot of spoilers for the game, so I hide rest of the post here.  Click on "Read more" if you don't mind to continue.

May 14, 2016

ここ２、３日また次々とTLに新たな案件が流れていて、せっかくサージュの小説で自立した聡明な女の子達の姿を読んでたのに、がっかりさせられます。日本の現実はまだまだ周回遅れ。解説の土屋さんがこんな風に書いていました。

New cases have been flowing one after another in my time line during last few days.  That makes me feel disappointed while I was reading about independent clever girls in the Surge novel.  The reality in Japan is still several laps behind.  Director Tsuchiya was writing as below at the end of the book.


「私も度重なる七次元旅行を繰り返してはおりますが、改めて思い返せば、一定の摂理と事象に基づいた世界にばかり行っているように思います。その一つは、『想いが力になる』という法則を持っていること、もう一つは『支配と被支配の構造体系』に一定の傾向があるというものです。この二つを組み合わせると、『理不尽なくらいどうしようもない社会秩序』と、『自身の確固たる想いや選択』との戦いが歴史を変えていく、という世界傾向が出来上がるわけで、私が旅立つ世界はいつだって気づけばそんな傾向のところばかりだと、ここ10年を振り返って思うのであります。そこには間違いなく、本人も気づかない潜在意識にこびりついた自身の暗部、いわゆるエゴやアニマなどが潜んでいるわけで、前述のような世界にばかりコンタクトを取っている私は、もしかすると潜在的に、この世界の社会システムに大きな憤りを感じているのかもしれません。」

「ユーキさん！トナリのセカイはホントにアルノですか？ゆきねライフロギング！２巻」／一二三書房より

"I have been repeating travelling to seven-dimensional world, but thinking over now, I guess I always tend to go to worlds which are based on certain providence and phenomenon.  One is that there is a law of 'thought becomes power', and the other is that there is a certain tendency for the structural system of capital and labor.  Putting these aspects together, you can see a world which changes its history by fighting between 'irrational order of the society you can't do anything with' and 'your own convinced belief and choices'.  Whenever I travel to seven-dimensional world, I realize my destination always used to be such places as I look back last ten years.  In there, my dark side such as ego and anima stuck in my unconsciousness, which even I don't know, is undoubtedly hiding.  The reason why I have kept contacting with worlds I described above, is that maybe I'm potentially feeling great anger with the social system of this world."

quoted from "Yuuki-san!  Does the World Next to Us Really Exist?  Yuuki Nei Life Logging!  Vol.2" published by Hifumi Shobo Co.,Ltd. 


私はこれを読んで、やはり土屋さんも昨今の世の中の動きに思うところがあるのかもしれないなと感じました。それだけに、今後の作品にも大いに注目していきたいです。これからも広めていく活動を頑張っていかねばという謎の使命感を抱くのでした。

As I read this, I thought Tsuchiya-san probably also has some thoughts to what's happening in the recent society after all.  Because of that, I want to keep on checking his work.  I'm having a mysterious sense of mission that I have to keep up with trying to make his work popular.

May 11, 2016

一緒にご飯を食べた後、乙女な心配をするイオン。食べてたのはテロルの実だから、心配いらないでしょwそしてまたカットを失敗しているイオン。

After we ate dinner together, Ion was worried about a girlish problem.  I guess she doesn't have to worry since she was eating Terol Fruit.  And, she has failed to cut her hair again.

Ion:
Am I okay to eat that much?
I'm worried a bit because I tend to eat too much before I know when we eat together...


…というやりとりの後、なんとメニューが開いたまま反応しなくなるという事態が発生し、セーブもできない状態だったので「なかったこと」になってしまいました(^^;)。

...After this conversation, somehow the menu became unresponsive while it was kept open.  I wasn't able to save data either, so everything above was considered to be as "didn't happen".