My favourite translaters and my favourite video

Today is my last day in Japan. I will keep on posting about the amazing encounters that I had in the last weeks (I mentioned the time delay on this blog before). There is good stuff to come: Encounters with the likes of Shikii-san, Taitoku-san, Kanamaru-san, Nakano-san, Toda-san, Ozaki-san, Maria-san, Nagai-san, Nishizawa-san, Ito-san, Kosmo-san, Konsome-san, Takuma-san, Wakamura-P, plus three more focus groups and several Nico Chuu parties … lots of interesting stuff. And then there will be the time of analysis, and also of developing further forms of research about Nico Nico Douga – all this will be posted first here.

For now, I just quickly post my favourite video for today. Nothing particularly outstanding, I guess, I just smile each time, I watch it.

The characters you see stem from the Idolmaster universe, the drawings are fan-produced, as is the singing. The lyrics go on about the gorgeousness of Sushi, the refrain is: “I am hungry. I want to have a special offer”. Have fun!

One more thing to say: Two members are leaving our team now: Graham and Mark, our fantastic translators. Graham Carpenter, who was a deep, deep Nico Chuu before we started our collaboration, was not only an absolutely fantastic translator, but also an essential advisor and expert, and a friend of sorts. His brother Mark showed an incredible ability to work himself into the Nico Chuu universe, which was totally new for him. Takashiro-san will stay in Japan for another 4 weeks, and will do more research, so I will rave about her contribution at another time.