Still Haven't Found That Particular Interview But Found Another Gem

Still haven't found that particular interview but found another gem

I was searching for a very specific YOI interview that I read many years ago and found the exact translator whose translation of it I read back then, and wellp, browsing through their twitter in search of said interview I stumbled upon this gem

added the logo to the cover art of the first chapter lol

my first yuri on ice fanart since 2019, and also the cover of the first chapter of the doujin/fancomic i plan to draw~~ my next drawing will just be a just for fun victor fanart before starting with the doujin tho~~ hope you like it <3 any feedback is really appreciated ...and also art tips, lot's of art tips, cuz i'm rusty and haven't drawn in so long i forgot a lot of stuff lol

Thank you so much!!!

just finished my Victor icon!! next up will be Yuri and then the main trio is complete, yayyy~~ if you like it then plz consider reblogging, or sharing your opinion or both~

I was searching for a very specific YOI interview that I read many years ago and found the exact translator whose translation of it I read back then, and wellp, browsing through their twitter in search of said interview I stumbled upon this gem

the logo for my doujinshi is now done

it took me like 2 min, the default font was close enough lol

Today’s translation #759

Spoon.2Di Toyonaga Toshiyuki's interview

Part 2.

-- So a natural way of acting, that doesn't sound like anime, requires a lot of energy?

Toyonaga: That's my personal impression, but for voice acting, that has to match characters drawn in anime-style, there is a certain template that can be used as a base for it, but my plan was to ignore all of this, and instead make all lines my own, and in order to do that, you have to think about 'why is this character saying this line right now?', their background etc., all of it. I care quite a lot, to make this feel real. So it's maybe not very much exhausting physically, but mentally, it can be exhausting, sometimes. Because the longer you do it, the more you identify with the character that you play, and then you cry (laugh), so I try to balance it all well.

-- It makes sense! So, this time, Mitsurou Kubo-san is resposnible for producing storyboards - what was your impression, when you first read them?

Toyonaga: I feel that reading them is just like reading a new comic series by Kubo-san, and it's really so interesting, that it's a perpetual 'what is going to happen next?!' for me (laugh). The overall construction of the story, I should say? The comedy parts and the serious parts fit together so well, and it makes the storyboards very easy to read. I was also very curious to see how the world that she portrayed was going to be translated into anime. And you can feel that the love that Kubo-san has for figure skating is also a part of these storyboards, and I felt that we mustn't let that go to waste.

[Notes: Oh, those storyboards...😆 Yuri!!! is a special case anime for many reasons, but one of them, one that I personally was fascinated by ever since I became a fan, is why they are so unwilling to share this story and the characters etc. with fans.

I mean, the storyboards were there all the time and are still there, all somebody needs to do is to bind them and take them to a publisher. How much could they cost? Let's say they split it into episodes, and it's something like 5000 yens per book, 60000 yens total... (Expensive, but feels so cheap, when I'm thinking about it, rn😆) So many people would absolutely buy them, no matter the price. But you just know they will absolutely never ever publish them (and it was confirmed that they are absolutely perfectly readable, btw, and a lot of material had to be omitted to meet the time constraints).

Imo, it's always been a sort of Sayo&Mitsurou's protectiveness over the characters and the story, a kind of 'only we really know them, and it will stay forever this way ✨'... Yk, that's why there are only 12 episodes and one short comic by the original creators and an extremely small amount of quasi-canon stuff. It's really 'our story&our characters' >∞> money. Compare it to how animes usually have an endless stream of new content, like cd-dramas, short comics, games, collab games etc.]