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おまけインタビュー

Bonus Interview

本書で不遇なキャラの話をしよう

Let's talk about the characters who didn't show up

Interviewer

あの、幻想郷縁起にも天狗の新聞にも出てこないキャラがいるんですが……、特に綿月姉妹。そもそもどんなキャラかすら知らない人もいそうです。他にも情報が欲しいキャラがいるので、お部屋の片づけを手伝うから教えてください。

Um... a number of characters didn't appear in either the Gensokyo Chronicles or the Tengu newspapers... especially the Watatsuki sisters. To begin with, there are people who don't even know what kind of characters they are. Please help out those of us who want to know more about these charcters.

ZUN

えー。綿月姉妹は月の姫で、豊姫の方が「山と海をつなぐ能力」、これはどこでも移動できる能力ですね。重要なのは月の都と地上を移動できるという点で、山は幻想郷、海は月を意味しているわけです。

Uh... The Watatsuki sisters are princesses of the moon. Regarding Toyohime, she has "the ability to connect Mountain and Sea", which is an ability to move anywhere. Most importantly, she can move between the Lunar Capital and the surface, using the meaning of Gensokyo as the mountain and the moon as the sea.

Interviewer

あ、割と具体的な意味だったんですね。彼女は桃を食べてるイメージと超兵器を持ってるイメージしか……。

Ah, a rather concrete interpretation then. She also has the image of eating peaches and carrying superweapons...

ZUN

秋★枝さんにも兵器の説明はしてないという超アバウト仕様ですからね(笑)。で、妹の依姫の方が普通なキャラなんです。

I forgot to explain the weapons to Aki Eda so the depiction was super sloppy (lol). Her sister Yorihime is a more ordinary character.

Interviewer

依姫はパワーアップ版主人公キャラという感じでした。

Yorihime feels like the kind of protagonist who keeps powering up.

ZUN

彼女はチートキャラですからね。あれは科学力ではなくて純粋に彼女の能力なんです。降ろす神様が強い分だけ強くなれる。強すぎて漫画じゃないと出せませんね。ゲームはどんなボスでも倒せなきゃいけませんから。ゲームだからこそのキャラクターの制限ですね。

That's because she's an overpowered character.* Without using the power of science, it's purely her own ability. In order to call down the strength of the gods she became strong. I wouldn't have made her too strong if it wasn't a manga. In a game you have to be able to win against any boss after all. Because it's a game you have to limit the characters.

Interviewer

なるほど。でも依姫が出てきたからこそ、霊夢の能力の一部が始めて具体的に描写されました。

I see. but because Yorihime showed up we got to see for the first time a concrete depiction of one of Reimu's abilities.

ZUN

そういう意味で、あの漫画の一番の見どころは三段ロケットが住吉三神ってところだと思うんですけどね。

But in that sense, wouldn't you have already seen her summon the three gods of the voyage for the three stage rocket?

Interviewer

月の都と幻想郷との接点はもうかかれないのでしょうか?

Will we see more interaction between the Lunar Capital and Gensokyo?

ZUN

難しいところですね。出てくるとしたら、もう一回人類がつきに言ってからじゃないですか。NASAじゃなくて民間の方で儲かったら、あっという間に行きそうですよ。昔は冷戦が後押ししましたが、いまはお金ですかね。

That's tough. Maybe, if humanity once again travels to the moon. A non-NASA, private, for-profit venture looks possible. In the past it was spurred by the Cold War, and now it's money.

Interviewer

宇宙ネタはボロボロありますが、月の都に入る手続きと、茨華仙の家へ入り方も似てますよね。

Space travel aside, the process of entering the Lunar Capital is pretty similar to entering Kasen's house, isn't it?

ZUN

月の都も仙人の家も、ちょっと似ているわけです。月の都にいる人間たちは、人間というよりも仙人や天人ぽいですね。

Because the Lunar Capital and the house of a hermit are a bit similar. The residents of the Lunar Capital are closer to hermits or celestials than humans.

Interviewer

そういえば月の都にも神様がいて、その人たちが一番偉いってことなんでしたっけ?

Now that you mention it, since there are also gods living on the moon, does that mean that Lunarians really are better?

ZUN

僕の中では月の都は高貴な神様たちが居る場所で、という設定なんです。で、反対に幻想郷には親しみやすいというか土着っぽい神様たちが居る。神様にもいろいろ派閥があるんだろうなって。で、永林はその中の一人だったから、幻想郷に来ても他の人間と接触を持たないんです。

In my headcanon, the Lunar Capital is where the highest, noblest gods live, that sort of setting. Rebellious Gensokyo is where the more intimate, indigenous-type gods live. There are many factions of gods. Eirin's also like that, which is why she didn't interact with the other humans when she moved to Gensokyo.

Interviewer

なんだかいろいろ納得ですね。

I think I get it.

ZUN

というわけで、本当に綿月姉妹は幻想郷側からはアンタッチャブルなんです。必要な措置として。あの2人の性格が楽しいから話が膨らみそうなので、お話を作ってみたいんですけどね。幻想郷の姉妹は、だいたい妹が壊れてるので。

Because of that, the Watatsuki sisters truly treat the Gensokyo side as Untouchables. As a necessary measure. Although because those two have fun-loving personalities they made the conversation a bit hammier than they needed to. When it comes to Gensokyan sisters, in general the younger one is broken.

Interviewer

ZUNさんに妹は居ませんけど、何か恨みでもあるんですか(苦笑)。

ZUN, I know you don't have a younger sister, but do you have some kind of grudge against them? (rofl)

緋想天キャラ

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Characters

Interviewer

天人と竜宮の使いについてもお伺いしたいんですが。

I'd like to ask some questions about celestials and oarfish.

ZUN

まあ単純に神奈子・聖・神子と接点が無いからこの扱いですけど、天子なんて大分いい性格してるんですけどね。
ゲームの最後になると全員からいじめられるという。

Well, simply put they were left out because they have nothing to do with Kanako, Hijiri or Miko, but Tenshi has a pretty good personality, doesn't she? In the end, the game was all about everyone bullying her.

Interviewer

キャラ付けがチルノ級な気がしますが。

She reminds me of Cirno in that sense.

ZUN

あの手の頭の悪い感じのキャラは増えましたね。そういうキャラの方が出しやすくて、臆病なキャラだと出しにくいですからね。ゲームなら霊夢が無理やり通りがかって倒せばいいですけど。

The number of characters at that level of intelligence has increased, huh. That kind of character is easier to come up with, compared to timid characters which are harder. Because in the end Reimu's gonna beat them up in a game.

Interviewer

衣玖はどうなんですか?

What about Iku?

ZUN

空気を読める能力なんですが、まったく活かされてないというか、逆に読んだからこそ幻想郷の空気ブレイカーたちに影響されて変になっちゃう。まあ真面目なことを言うと、空気を読むって言うのは空中を泳げるって言う意味なんですけどね。だから、多少会話がちぐはぐでもいいんです。

She has the ability to read the atmosphere, but she's terrible at taking advantage of it. In fact, because she read it, all of Gensokyo's resident atmosphere-breakers made things even worse. Well, seriously though, reading the atmosphere also has the meaning of swimming in the sky. So she doesn't really care if she's misunderstood.

Interviewer

なるほど。

I see.

ZUN

そういえば衣玖の種族はカタカナでなく漢字で「竜宮の使い」と書きますが、竜宮は存在しているんです。それは月の都のことなんですが。

Oh yeah, Iku's species is called the "Messenger of the Dragon Palace" (written in Kanji not in Katakana), but the Dragon Palace really does exist. That's another Lunar Capital matter though.

Interviewer

天人は月の都にが住んでいるっていうのはそういうことなんですね。

You mean like how celestials live in the Lunar Capital.

ZUN

一応設定的にはその辺がいろいろ繋がっているんです。

There are various connections between the places.

中ボスたち

Midbosses

Interviewer

キスメや椛などの中ボスは?

What about Kisume and Momiji and the others?

ZUN

キスメとか……普段何やってるかわかんないね。ただ、かなり凶暴なイメージです。問答無用で首を刈ってきて、樋に入れて持って帰るという。あの首もキスメの首じゃないかもしれないね。

Kisume... I don't really know what she normally does. I think of her as pretty brutal though. Words are useless against her: she'd just chop your head off, stick it in her bucket, and return home. The head you see may not even be Kisume's head.

Interviewer

怖ッ!

Scary!

ZUN

まああの顔は本人のものなんだけど、ちょっとそれくらいイヤなキャラです。椛は……白狐天狗は仲間が多いんですが、千里眼を持っているのですごく便利なキャラですね。

Well, the head you see really is hers, but she's that sort of unpleasant character. As for Momiji... she has a lot of White Wolf Tengu comrades and clairvoyance. Quite a handy person to have around.

Interviewer

そして案山子念報は入っているのに、はたての項目が何処にもないんですが……。

And even though you included the Kakashi Spirit News, there's no article about Hatate...

ZUN

文しか知らないキャラだからなぁ……文がはたてのことを新聞にする筈も無いし。でもはたては文にはない能力がある。念者は千里眼に近い能力ですが、映像化できるんですね。キーワードを思い浮かべるとそれに該当するものが出てくるという、Googleさん的な能力です。まあ、はたてを今の今まで(幻想郷縁起や新聞で取り上げてないことを)本気で忘れてましたけど、この本の設定ではまったく出せないし説明できないですね。

It's because no one knows her except Aya, and why would Aya put her in the newspaper? But Hatate does have an ability that Aya lacks. Spirit photography is like clairvoyance except you can take pictures. You enter keywords that come to mind and related items come up, like Google. Well honestly, until just now I completely forgot that Hatate wasn't in either the Gensokyo Chronicles or the newspapers, so there isn't really a good in-universe explanation.

華仙

Kasen

Interviewer

幻想郷縁起には茨華仙も居ないわけですが。

Ibara Kasen isn't in the Gensokyo Chronicles either.

ZUN

彼女も使い勝手はそこそこいいキャラなんですが、何せ現在進行形なのでここで言い過ぎるのも違うかなと。というわけで、漫画の方をよろしくお願いします。

Kasen's a great character, but since she's part of a work-in-progress I figured I shouldn't reveal too much here. That said, please enjoy the manga.