Alberto Andrade

Endocrinologist

趣味は日本語翻訳🇯🇵🇬🇧🇪🇸

Amateur Japanese translator.
Esperantisto.
Translations my own, but corrections are welcome!

[Catsuka @catsuka]

World premiere of "Cherry and Virgin" this summer at Fantasia Festival (Montreal).

[儒烏風亭らでん🐚ReGLOSS @juufuuteiraden]

座敷童子亭らでん！！！
います！！！！！

[BPUG(びーぱぐ) @bigpughug]

ヒカルの碁原画展，最高だった。
一つのコマに息を呑んで動けないというのを何度も繰り返しながら進んだ。
生で見ないとわからない凄さ。こだわりがすごい。

あとこの原画展を企画した人の作品愛が半端ない。ありがとう。

[澪 @mio_mi15]

きれいでかわいくてかっこよくてお上品なの
#ヒカルの碁展愛知に行ってきました

[NCC Japan (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @NCCJapanInfo]

Have you struggled with kuzushiji learning? 🖌️ One of the great opportunities to practice is engaging with the Minna de Honkoku #みんなで翻刻 project! Learn about crowdsourcing transcription in this video by Yuta Hashimoto for our CDDP series! https://t.co/DhkC9AA7ZX

[♪ まくぽり ☆彡 @mkpoli]

👇以下からアクセスできます
https://t.co/kIKrbdpv3Y

[Yuta Hashimoto @yuta1984]

#みんなで翻刻 バージョン3 公開308日目の進捗報告。
1562人の参加者により7509点中3515点の翻刻が完了しました。画像単位では247462枚中114225枚が完了しています。入力文字数は昨日から3.8万字増加し、5743.5万字になりました。
https://t.co/3WWuekoCUE

[Yuta Hashimoto @yuta1984]

【公開】みんなで翻刻くずし字OCRを公開しました！
https://t.co/vv9pjptW44
#みんなで翻刻 で入力された約5,700万字の翻刻文を学習したくずし字AI-OCRです。本文テキストだけでなく、振り仮名や漢文の訓点、割書も認識できる点が特徴です（精度に課題はありますが）

[The Weeknd @theweeknd]

Susumu Hirasawa 🪄

[儒烏風亭らでん🐚ReGLOSS @juufuuteiraden]

🐚配信予告🐚

6月6日(土)19:00~
オフコラボでカラオケするぞ👀✨

儒烏風亭らでんと無期限休止に入る北白川かかぽ最後のコラボです！！
チャンネルはらでんのとこでやりますー！
らぽラボフォーエバー

[Alberto Andrade @Springandashura]

@S_Brightblade o sea el adagio de Strugeon sigue vigente

[primaniacs（プリマニアックス） @primaniacs_PR]

【『ヒカルの碁』フレグランス - 合言葉は＜再会の香り＞】
再会の日まであと50日

目には見えない香りだからこそ、
目には見えないあの人もきっとそこに居るーー

＜再会の日＞
7/24（金）
primaniacs銀座本店、渋谷店にて

https://t.co/gp9VbpOj5g
#ヒカルの碁

[Boichi @Boichi_Bo1]

#DrSTONE

You truly created an incredible anime.
I was so moved that I must have watched it dozens of times.
I even showed it to everyone.
And regarding that scene in Dr. STONE where Stanley touches Xeno’s face—I did not draw it as a “happy reunion” gesture.
More precisely, it was meant as: “Hey, are you alright?”

Stanley is checking Xeno’s face to see whether he is safe and healthy.
Even though Stanley awakened later, the first thing he cared about was whether Xeno had survived.
And when he realizes Xeno seems well, he smiles slightly.

And the concept of the Corn City soldiers originally came from my all time favorite film, "Predator(1987)."
There is a scene where the Predator examines Dutch’s face (his skull) using heat vision.

That scene was the homage behind this moment—
except I used the meaning in the complete opposite way. Hehe

But I also absolutely love what the anime staff created.
As I always say, anime belongs to the people who make the anime(including fan-anime).
I support adaptations carrying the thoughts and emotions of the creators themselves, not just the original author.

So in that sense, I really want to applaud this interpretation too.

Bravo!

[Alberto Andrade @Springandashura]

@lowtech_lowlife @its_hipolita ferreteria. las de barrio. esas que venden repuestos de cocina

[Alberto Andrade @Springandashura]

@montebianco333 左の女の子はだれ？

[もん・ぶらん🧁 @montebianco333]

懐かしくなって探してみました
吉原由香里先生回だった！
他にもこんな雑誌が！
囲碁ガールブームありましたね

[元席亭はぎや @hagiichirou]

おはようございます。

古い囲碁雑誌が
複数見つかったので
ひまを見つけて眺めています。

えええ！
オリラジ…というか
youtuberの中田さんが…！

[Anime News Network @Anime]

Creating Wordless Manga
How did the winners of the Silver Prize in Kadokawa's Global Manga Contest come up with their wordless stories? We sat down with masterlynx and REKU to find out.
https://t.co/K8dlloUPWB ➤

[好条 @sunio_003]

看完原画展了！！！！！神……😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭(现在正在飞速奔向机场途中✈️时间不够啊啊啊啊好想看一整天😭唉画得太好了我边哭边拍照……晚上到家再慢慢回味

[Boichi @Boichi_Bo1]

"The Coming Disaster for the Japanese Manga Industry"

A decisive challenge awaits the Japanese manga industry.
That challenge is "birth rates."

I first began discussing the birth-rate issue within the industry five to seven years ago, and I first spoke about it publicly on YouTube around two years ago.

Sometimes people ask me:
“Why isn't the manga industry already thinking about something so obvious?”

And I usually reply:
“Well, you hadn't thought about it either until you heard I mention it.”

That is the nature of a Columbus's egg.

Once someone points it out, it seems obvious.
In fact, more and more people are talking about birth rates now.

Because of declining birth rates, Japan's population will shrink.
However, the disaster caused by a shrinking consumer base is still decades away.

The more immediate problem is the decline in young readers.
That process has already begun.
Fortunately, Japan has been supported by generations of loyal readers who have continued buying and reading manga throughout their lives.
For that, the industry owes them tremendous gratitude.
They have held the line remarkably well.

But the disaster that is approaching right now is something else:
The decline of young manga creators.
This is the real problem.
And it is a serious one.

A healthy manga industry must be centered around young creators.
Creators of my generation should serve as a strong outer wall around that center—experienced, stable, and supportive—but not the center itself.

When there are fewer young creators, there are also fewer aspiring manga artists.
There are fewer assistants.
There are fewer future professionals.
Eventually, the center of the industry begins to collapse like a sandcastle whose foundation has been washed away.
And this is not a distant future problem.
If we simply leave things to natural forces—to the standard distribution curve—I believe it could happen within the next ten years.

The labor shortage caused by declining youth populations is not something waiting for us in the future.
Sadly, it is already happening.

We can already see the consequences.
The talent pool is shrinking.
The quality of the talent pipeline is weakening.

Weekly manga magazines, in particular, are beginning to feel the pressure.
Many mid-sized manga magazines are facing increasing difficulties.
This threatens one of manga's most important strengths:
Diversity.
And unless something changes, the problem will become increasingly severe.
(If anything, Korean webtoons may face this crisis even sooner. South Korea's birth rate is even lower than Japan's, and the webtoon industry depends even more heavily on young creators.)

The demographic crisis facing both South Korea and Japan is serious.
But of course there are solutions.
There are solutions to almost every problem in this world.
The real question is whether we can act while there is still time.
Whether we can act during the golden window of opportunity.
And the solutions themselves are surprisingly simple.

They are:
1. The True digitalization
2. Globalization
3. What comes after globalization

To be continued.