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Interview: Akiyuki Simbo

When the hell did we start calling it Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl? Why aren't we calling it Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko or Electromagnetic Wave Woman and Adolescent Man?

Animerican14 wrote:

what the heck is up with the varying romanization of the director's name?

In the west, 99% of people use Hepburn romanization because it's the closest equivalent to the roman letters that are used. Whereas in Japan, in addition to Hepburn they also somtimes use Nihon-shiki romanization. The differences between these two romanizations (as well as the senpai/sempai choice of whether to translate the text (which would be senpai) or how it is pronounced (which would be sempai) leads to various kinds of romanization that are pretty much all correct.

You can romanize it however you want, it doesn't really matter. Its a ん　and if you want to romanize that as n, m, or whatever feel free. But your explanation makes it sound like the one system uses "m" because the sound it makes is an "m" and no it isn't. I'm sure some linguistics person has a handy chart to show where the sound falls between n and m, but it isn't either. Both the n and m are approximations chosen because there isn't an english letter with an exact equivalent sound.

You can romanize it however you want, it doesn't really matter. Its a ん　and if you want to romanize that as n, m, or whatever feel free. But your explanation makes it sound like the one system uses "m" because the sound it makes is an "m" and no it isn't. I'm sure some linguistics person has a handy chart to show where the sound falls between n and m, but it isn't either. Both the n and m are approximations chosen because there isn't an english letter with an exact equivalent sound.

This translate the text thing isn't exactly right either. Some one had to have originally placed ん with an 'n' but ん in Japanese is actually not categorized with the 'n' sound from the な line because they are actually slightly different. I mean the first person to come up with that stuff could have just as easily used an 'm' for ん. So if you are really accurately keeping the text, you need some kind of accent or something to seperate that n from the other n.

I don't really have a preference, but this kind of 'choice 1 is better because it accurately keeps X' and 'choice 2 is better because it accurately keeps Y' is kind of dumb. Now both are sort of correct, but being sort of correct is not the same as being correct.

Sinbo's handlers/managers/whoever told us it's Sinbo. Specifically asked that we use that from here on out. It's as official as it can possibly be.

Zac wrote:

Sinbo's handlers/managers/whoever told us it's Sinbo. Specifically asked that we use that from here on out. It's as official as it can possibly be.

Er, they told you Sinbo or Simbo? What you wrote and the article title don't match. I'm assuming the official one is the one in the title and you just typed it wrong in this post.

halochief_90 wrote:

There's nothing wrong with being a unemployed or whatever, but these shows seem to either try and encourage it or just create the illusion that this lifestyle is somehow cool.

That's not the case with this show (Psychoelectric Girl). The lead character is positively irritated by the girl's reasoning for shutting herself away, and goes about shattering her illusions and helping her take the first steps towards re-integrating into society. By the fourth or fifth episode, spoiler[she has a job.]

To me, these NEET or hikikomori shows seem like the same kind of power fantasy that male harem-shows are. Only in this case, the NEET shows aren't exactly a giving off a positive message. In Heaven's Memo Pad it shows that NEETs can be all be part of cool club!

[...]so please re-watch the box set with the original novel also in hand!

[...]so please re-watch the box set with the original novel also in hand!

so it is not uncommon for us to think, “We want to continue this!”

Animerican14 wrote:

what the heck is up with the varying romanization of the director's name?

In the west, 99% of people use Hepburn romanization because it's the closest equivalent to the roman letters that are used. Whereas in Japan, in addition to Hepburn they also somtimes use Nihon-shiki romanization. The differences between these two romanizations (as well as the senpai/sempai choice of whether to translate the text (which would be senpai) or how it is pronounced (which would be sempai) leads to various kinds of romanization that are pretty much all correct.

True, but to me the only "correct" one is the one that "sounds" correct. How is his name actually pronounced?

How is his name actually pronounced?

Kougeru wrote:

How is his name actually pronounced?

シンボ
しんび

Like that.