Mar. 30th, 2004

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Once again, text is Capcom's, not mine.

X1 )
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Reference Tool: Because I apparently have too much time on my hands, I decided to go back through the EXE games (and just plain through the ones I hadn't finished in Japanese yet) and figure out what everyone calls everyone else. This is through the Quickman battle in EXE 2 and the end of the power plant scenario in EXE 1. Just for grins, I included the first-person pronouns that people use as well.

The format is:
Character's full name, or as close to it as I could get
What they're called: People who call them that

Wow, am I anal or what? )

General trends:
Netto almost never uses honorifics. Rockman almost always does, using "-chan" for girls, "-kun" for boys, and "-san" for grownups/grown-up type Navis. He always calls Haruka and Yuuichirou "Mama" and "Papa," even before his true identity is revealed.

Meiru uses honorifics for everyone except Netto, Rockman, and Roll.

Roll is the only one who ever calls Rockman "Rock," and she only does it when talking directly to him. If she's talking about Rockman with someone else, she'll call him "Rockman."

Programs use the -san suffix for everyone, unless they're in Yaito's house, in which case they will use the -sama suffix for her. Glyde follows the same pattern; "-san" for everyone except Yaito, who rates a "-sama."

Blues is not the only one who uses the "-sama" suffix for his Operator. Fireman, Glyde, and Gutsman do it, too.

Navis sometimes use honorifics among themselves (Rockman calling Yaito's Navi "Glyde-san," for instance). Operators, on the other hand, never use honorifics when talking to or referring to their Navis, although the Navis will almost always stick an honorific (usually -san or -sama) onto their Operator's name.
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Here is the first bit of my attempt at translating the 15th anniversary edition of Rockman Perfect Memories.  I'm including the original Japanese text in addition to the translation both as a reference for myself and for anyone who is better at Japanese than I am, since it's been a good two and a half years since I had any sort of formal instruction in the language and I've only had 3 semesters in high school and 2 semesters in college.  Translation corrections are more than welcome.  Stuff in brackets [like this] is me talking, not the book.

My name-kanji skills are not l33t enough to decipher the name of the writer, but this is all owned by Capcom.  The text is not mine in any way, shape, or form.  I don't feel too bad about putting chunks of the text out here because I think this book is now out of print and extremely hard to find. 

Inhabitants of the Classic Rockman World )

More to come as I get this typed up.  I actually have most of the Rockman X section and good-sized chunks of the Classic series, EXE, and the glossary translated, but it's all handwritten right now.



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All this is taken from Rockman Perfect Memories, the 15th anniversary edition.  The text is Capcom's, not mine.  Any corrections on the translations are quite welcome (and, no, I don't care how long it's been since this was posted.  It's backdated like crazy in order to avoid spamming people's f-lists, and I'm not picky about comments like that, even if it is bad LJ ettiquete).  Original Japanese is given before the translations for my own reference and for the reference of anyone else who can read it.

There are a few differences in terminology between the Japanese and English versions.
Irregular=Maverick
Repliroid=Reploid
Operator=Navigator [*refrains from making any EXE jokes*]
Famicom=NES ("Famicom" is short for "Family Computer," the Japanese version of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.  Super Famicom=Super NES)

Anything in brackets [like this] is me talking, not the book.

Short blurbs on the major characters )

Rockman X, the first game.  Spoilers, ho! )

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