Sinnesspiel

Odd Taxi Fes was held on June 18th, 2022. There was an afternoon event and an evening event with musical acts and cast members discussing the characters and doing a skit written by Konomoto Kazuya (head series writer). As it seems we're not getting a release of the full script, much less a recording, I thought I'd document the summary so it's available somewhere in English.

The full report by Mixi User (id:429476) includes the reporter's thoughts and insights into the event, I'm just translating their summaries and dialogue. The reporter went to the evening event, of the two, and it was about 90 minutes total.

At the event were:

Iida Riho (Shirakawa)
Koizumi Moeka (Ichimura)
Murakami Manatsu ("Mitsuya Yuki"/Wadagaki Sakura)
Kousei and Asei of Miki (Daimon Brothers; Older and Younger, respectively -- only at the evening event)
Yuusuke and Tsuda Asahiro of Daian (Homosapiens; Shibagaki and Baba respectively)
Takashi of Trendy Angel (Kabasawa)
Murakami Tomoko or Morisanchuu (Taeko)
Phenix and Takai Keisuke of Girly Record (Bonnou Illumination: Kondou Shigeyuki/Cheetah and Fukumoto Daiichi/Panda respectively)
Sakai Koudai (Imai)
Horii Chado (Sekiguchi)
Meteor (Yano)

Special Guest Mukai Seitarou, who is an entertainer and seiyuu who had MCed a few radio events about the series. He does the Karaage shopkeep in the Shooting Star Skit.


Musical guests:
Skirt and Punpee who did the opening theme,
Tony Frank who did the insert song/ending about Manzai,
VaVa, and OMSB whom I don't know the relevance of to the series.

The MC was Inoue Yusuke of Non Style (a comedy duo with seiyuu Ishida Akira, also not related to Odd Taxi) who also doesn't seem to have direct relevance to the series. (The earlier event was MCed by comedy due New York, also with no direct tie to the series)




Introduction
( Introducing the Cast )


Reciting Script: "Wish Upon A Star"

( Odd Taxi - Wish Upon A Star Live Reading )

The shooting stars begin. Tony Frank plays just the guitar instrumental of Watare Bridge as everyone says their wishes:

Shirakawa: I pray Odokoawa-san is happy.
Taeko: I pray I can make spinach shirae as well as my mother did.
Imai: I pray Nikaidou Rui sells a lot.
Kabaswa: I pray to be acknowledged by people.
Yano: I pray Dobu-san dies!--No, I can't, he can't die!!
Sekiguchi: I pray that Yano-san's wish comes true.
Daimon Younger: I pray that all the bad people are gone.
Daimon Older: I pray to return to before that accident.
Ichimura: I pray that I can work as an idol without a mask.
Wadagaki: Even without wishing on a star, I'll do something about it myself, so it's okay.
(The reporter forgot Shibagaki's and Bannou Illumination's.)
Shibagaki: You're up, Baba. You're the last act, the last laugh!
Baba: Uhhhm, Uhhhh, I pray for world peace!
Shibagaki: What's funny about that?!



Odd Taxi Debates
( Would you rather work under Dobu or Yano? )



( Shirakawa vs Ichimura Worst Girl Wars )

 Link to the Odd Taxi Character Album translations.

Youtube Full Playlist

Individual Tracks - 

TAXIDRIVER - Odokawa Hiroshi - Hanae Natsuki
Acchi Kocchi Justice - Daimon Brothers - Miki
Panama - Sekiguchi Tougo - Horii Chado, Punpee, Metero
Asebi - Mystery Kiss  - Mimori Suzuko, Koizumi Moeka, Murakami Manatsu
Sabitsuita Glass - Yamamoto Fuyuki - Furukawa Makoto

All are spoiler free, but Panama ties with Ya Know! Mega Mix from the 2019  Yano concept album which does have (marked) spoilers.

Translation Notes( Translation Notes )

( Someday you’ll understand, what a parent’s worth. )

Links to Chapters

18 - 1
18 - 2
18 - 3
18 - 4
18 - 5

Culture/Translation Notes:

18 - 4

Shimotsuki - The eleventh month of the lunar calendar, which is around December. Literally translated as the frost month when the first frosts are beginning to show, the gods were said to be weakened at this time. Thus Shinto festivals called Kagura are held to ward off evil spirits or encourage and strengthen good ones. Traditional songs are performed with taiko drums, flutes and other classical instruments and the specifics of the dances and songs vary by locale. These traditions are practiced in advance and passed down primarily through oral tradition rather than in writing. Thus why it would be heard being practiced while walking through the village.

It is often an all night festival, with common customs include wearing Oni masks and spraying holy water.

4


( Now I have one for you. You always have the temple's Junior Monk at your side. Why isn't the Junior Monk in that seat next to you now? )

2

( The village might not have much time left. )

Links to Chapters

17 - 1
17 - 2
17 - 3
17 - 4
17 - 5
17 - 6


No cultural notes for this chapter. Let me know if anything seemed like it needs it or if it confuses you.



In response to questions I've gotten, the novel is two hardback volumes broke out into several "books." The latter release of five paperbacks correspond to those "books" which in the hardback are only noted by some text. The hardback novels have denser pages with two rows of smaller print text, so one page in the hardback novel is about a page and a half to three pages of the paperbacks. The text itself is the same.

I own the hardcover volumes and at the end of Book 3, Chapter 17, we're on page 447 of the second volume.

Both volumes combined are 1,271 pages, putting us currently on page 992. We are 78% through the novel.



I'll take this opportunity to again let everyone know there's a Discord Chat where I post to notify of new translations. Here, people have sometimes deep, sometimes funny discussion of the novel, manga, and anime Shiki, as well as other Japanese novels, anime, manga, and Japanese games. Some people post fanworks. In the past someone did an analysis of the symbolism in the second ending theme song. Lately, someone had posted pictures of what seems to be a live action dead ringer for Sotoba (Kosuge Village in Yamanashi Prefecture, thanks HoTDead). People can request specific translations from the staff interviews or art book or the like. Gay Chinese novels seem to be a popular topic too. It's a community with an international spread, so don't be shy if English isn't your first language.

Both the hardcover and the paperback prints of the novel have covers done by artist Shinsaku Fujita. The artist's site is almost fully bilingual, if you're interested.

"It is impossible to express the whole story in one picture. In the worst case, I may plant wrong memory in people’s mind. Therefore, book cover work has large responsibility."

I wonder what he thought about when designing the Shiki novel covers. The hardbacks are both entirely scenic views, though the paperbacks have some people in them.

This is an example of the kind of discussions had in the Discord chat. I encourage people to have discussions here on Dreamwidth because people can come back and dig into a 3 year old discussion and insight with more ease than a moving chatroom, but these are the times. Also a lot of the discussion isn't particularly deep. Sometimes we just remark on whose genitals should rub together not because of anything deeper than how hot they look. And maybe part of the appeal is being given an excuse to restate your thoughts again and again and refine them over time in a moving chat rather than referring to prior posts.

Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza) 2015 Stage Play
Raw: 402 MB
Hardsubbed: 216 MB
Subtitle File: Mediafire .ass format
Video Credit: Pink Sashimi at Youtube

Latest version: 1.0 (7/5/2021)

Credit's nice if you use it, stream it, share it, etc. I'd like people to be able to see if the script's had major updates or corrections.  I'd prefer people not "fix it up" with localizations and the like but I can't really stop you either. 

If anyone owns the DVD or has a better quality video, by all means. I'll be happy to update the subtitle file to it or hardsub and host it here.

Note that Foxglove (Twitter link) has translated the first half and it's available on Pink Sashimi's Youtube channel. Due to a two year gap with no updates, I took the request to subtitle the full thing.





Translation notes:
( I tend to favor leaving things with a culture note. )