Kinoko Nasu's "Unique" style?

[Skull]

Is it really a pen name if all you do is stylise the romanisation of your name?

[Deathhappens]

I seemed to remember that that's not his real name, but Wikipedia says it is, so... eh, I guess?

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I mean, about as much as me writing my name in Japanese would be, were such a thing possible, anyway.

[Mcjon01]

Is it really a pen name if all you do is stylise the romanisation of your name?

The whole thing is a pen name, from the kanji to the way it’s stylized

[Skull]

The whole thing is a pen name, from the kanji to the way it’s stylized

Huh, I was under the impression that "Nishio Ishin" was his real name.

Now I have egg on my face.

[Toa of Gallifrey]

Move it up to your head and you can be one of two Nisioisin characters.

[CielWorstGirl]

How did you even dig this up to necro it, lol

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Also, NisiO isiN is a pen name and a palindrome. You gotta thrust spell it right or it doesn't work.

I found this thread because I googled "Kinoko Nasu bad writer" and similar search terms because I wanted to figure out why people think his style is bad. Then I found this thread.

[Ratman]

Oh yeah, I think the stuff explained in this lecture makes up a good portion of what makes Nasu's work tick:

[mewarmo990]

I recall the story where localisers got a few native Japanese speakers together and still no one made sense of Tamamo's high level jokes.

This sounds like a story about Xseed?

well, the other challenge of translating TM fiction is whether the Japanese speakers are familiar with the references to other stories, popular culture, and blog posts that Nasu likes to mix in. This part isn't so much Nasu as it is asking whether the native speakers are read up on all the TM fiction, and naturally there just aren't going to be that many of those.

And tbh it's pretty hard to get Tamamo's voice right in English. I don't think I've seen an attempt I liked yet.

[Dullahan]

Valley Girl performing Shakespeare

[mewarmo990]

hahahaha

[Dullahan]

i'm not even joking, that's how you do it

think of the most hideous talentless vocal fry-inflected san fernando high school senior performance of R+J imaginable and that's tamamo in english

[mewarmo990]

I was laughing because when I think about it, that image actually fits

[Strange_One]

That... Actually fits rather well.

We need this.

This sounds like a story about Xseed?

quite! A vague recollection of one of your interesting translation tales.

Tamamo in particular I thought came out with vague references to mythology minutae. Another rather high bar for most native speakers/readers to clear.

[mewarmo990]

quite! A vague recollection of one of your interesting translation tales.

I have nothing to do with that.

[Strange_One]

Okay, I just thought it was a story that you'd heard and mentor here.

[Mcjon01]

This sounds like a story about Xseed?

well, the other challenge of translating TM fiction is whether the Japanese speakers are familiar with the references to other stories, popular culture, and blog posts that Nasu likes to mix in. This part isn't so much Nasu as it is asking whether the native speakers are read up on all the TM fiction, and naturally there just aren't going to be that many of those.

And tbh it's pretty hard to get Tamamo's voice right in English. I don't think I've seen an attempt I liked yet.

http://tlot.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-308.html?sp
https://bbs.demonition.com/board/312/
https://www39.atwiki.jp/fate_tiger/pages/42.html

Sometimes I read through things like this just to see what I'm missing and it makes me wish a 50 thousand year old psychic tree could just beam the collective unconscious of Japanese nerds straight into my brain so I can understand this shit

[Dullahan]

extensive research has arrived at the shocking conclusion that TM writers are, in fact, otaku

[mAc Chaos]

Oh yeah, I think the stuff explained in this lecture makes up a good portion of what makes Nasu's work tick:

That's a pretty great video. Good watch.

[Rafflesiac]

And tbh it's pretty hard to get Tamamo's voice right in English. I don't think I've seen an attempt I liked yet.

Even your own?

[mewarmo990]

http://tlot.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-308.html?sp
https://bbs.demonition.com/board/312/
https://www39.atwiki.jp/fate_tiger/pages/42.html

Sometimes I read through things like this just to see what I'm missing and it makes me wish a 50 thousand year old psychic tree could just beam the collective unconscious of Japanese nerds straight into my brain so I can understand this shit

our office is made of Japanese nerds NASU LET US DO THE THINGS